Hello, hacks and hackers! This week we have tips on map visualizations and news on TikTok innovations.
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The Guardian wrote about how journalism organizations can benefit from utilizing TikTok to present news in a way that reaches younger audiences. Since the US government is involved with nearly every country in the world in some way, GIJN wrote a guide on investigating US involvement in other countries through laws, sanctions, finances, immigration and more.
Hello, hacks and hackers! This year’s OpenNews Survey, previously called the News Nerd Census, is now open for journalists who work with technology to fill out.
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Hello, hacks and hackers! Registration for this year’s Media Party is open! The party is happening from August 25-27 in Buenos Aires.
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Nigeria is making journalism more tech-centric Worth a read:
City Bureau, a Chicago-based news org, received $10 million from the Stronger Democracy Award to expand its Documenters Network program across the country.
The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY is welcoming new cohorts of newsrooms in their Product Immersion for Small Newsrooms program.
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Northwestern published its annual State of Local News Report that looks at how local news is faring across communities in the US. It found that an average of two US newspapers have closed per week since 2004.
Hello, hacks and hackers! The call for proposals is open for the Hacks/Hackers Media Party in Buenos Aires in August.
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Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism released its annual report on digital news, including findings on how young people are consuming news, and found that readers between 18-24 used YouTube the most of any other media platform for news.
Hello, hacks and hackers! One of the premiere news nerd events is happening this week: SRCCON online.
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Anew paper by Hacks/Hackers Researcher-at-Large andNewsQ Initiative Director Connie Moon Sehat discusses how the effort to prioritize news content according to journalistic values belongs to a larger question regarding the role of expertise within democratic societies.
We have news, hacks and hackers! H/H has joined the Partnership on AI, a non-profit partnership of over 100 academic, civil society, industry and media organizations across five continents working to use AI and machine learning responsibly.
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Nigeria is making maps in QGIS Worth a read:
The AP released the 56th edition of The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law, which includes more than 300 new or revised entries and a chapter on inclusive storytelling.
Great news, hacks and hackers! The Buenos Aires Media Party is back in person for its 10th edition!
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This data viz designer charted out how much time he spent on each component in a variety of data viz projects over 1,550 hours from October 2020 thru February 2022 to be able to give better estimates to clients on how long projects might take.
Applications for the Associated Press Local News AI Initiative are open now through June 17!
twttr.widgets.createTweet( '1529948954573410304', document.getElementById('tweet-container-1529948954573410304'), ); Newsrooms can submit project ideas that use automation or AI to address the needs of its news operation, and the AP will work with the newsroom, developers and vendors to implement the project over a year.
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Telling stories with data is one of the key roles of data journalists, and this article explains from a more elementary perspective how to incorporate art, math and science into a data-fueled storytelling experience.
Hello, hacks and hackers! SRCCON is happening online from June 22-24 and just released their list of accepted proposals.
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Nigeria is learning about Geographic Information Systems Uganda is exploring tools for data gathering Kenya is utilizing statistics in reporting Worth a read: