New events in October

Welcome to autumn, hacks and hackers! We've got new funding opportunities this month plus eight cool events, from the Computer + Journalism Symposium to the Interactive Conference.

Plus, if you're located in Africa, Hacks/Hackers and Code for Africa have opened applications for StoryLab Academy training:

The week ahead:

• Seattle is visualizing geodata
• Nairobi is holding a scrapathon
• IRE is holding its regular weekly lab
• Brisbane is holding an annual organizing meeting
• Miami is hacking with Code for Miami

Worth a read:

• BBC News Labs published an extenisve list of new kinds of digital formats for news (BBC)
• A recent study by the Reuters Institute at Oxford University says media outlets shouldn't try to change their language or tone when reaching out to younger audiences (Reuters Institute)
• "Video deserves better, and so does journalism," says a recent publication by the Columbia Journalism Review, which studied examples of various "pivots to video" (CJR)

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