Hacks/Hackers Connect Miami kicks off
Happy Friday the 13th, hacks and hackers. #HHConnect Miami fires off today and continues throughout the weekend:
The week ahead:
- Miami and IRE are holding their regular weekly open labs
- Helsinki is taking a look at news orgs’ analytics, including some on gender balance
- The #PanamaPapers talks keep boomeranging around the world, this week reaching Munich
- London is featuring speakers from a tech community, an innovation agency and a political nonprofit
Group spotlight:
Last week, Hacks/Hackers Venezia (Venice) invited author Federico Badaloni to discuss his book “The Architecture of Communication.” Enrico Costa said he and the other organizers try to attract audiences with a wide range of talks and discussions.
”Our meetings are very informal and diverse in terms of members’ background. So far we have organized conversations and talks ranging from data and visual journalism to information architecture.
Our future goal is to gain higher levels of know-how through hands on practice through workshops or hackathons, but the trip is so amazing there is actually no hurry to get there!”
Worth a read:
- The media industry was rocked by claims that Facebook has been selective about the media it shows to users (Gizmodo)
- Gawker explains why the metrics used to measure BuzzFeed’s audience for the notorious watermelon video are “bullshit” (Gawker)
- BuzzFeed infiltrated Silicon Valley’s most secretive startup, Palantir, and found it wasn’t as profitable as it appeared (BuzzFeed)
- Quartz is making its charting tool, Atlas, available to everybody (Quartz)
Job openings:
- Europe:
- Telegraph Media group is hiring an SEO and social media editor
- Bloomberg is hiring a business reporter in Munich
- North America:
- The Independent, a UK news outlet, is seeking a US news editor in New York
- A Hawaii CBS/NBC affiliate is looking for a multimedia investigative journalist
- Middle East:
- Arabian Computer News, a technology publication in Dubai, is hiring an editor
