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Greetings, hacks and hackers! There’s been significant interest in starting new Hacks/Hackers groups from North America to Latin America to Asia over the past few months. One of the newest members of the family, Caracas, held their first event last weekend: #DataYTequeños (cheesy sticks): The next to get

Welcome to October, hacks and hackers! The Investigating Asia conference took place in Kathmandu last week, as did digital journalism convenings on practically every other continent. While we’re still digesting the tips and tools from those events, investigative journalism conferences in Africa and the Middle East have already been

Hello, new hacks and hackers! As of last week, he have 1,000 subscribers on this newsletter. So if you haven’t already heard, we hold global open calls for the entire Hacks/Hackers community on the first Wednesday of every month. Please join us next Wednesday, October 5! The

Greetings, hacks and hackers! Toronto just wrapped up a maximum-capacity Connect event: At the same time, the Jakarta hosted the Global Forum for Media Development, the NYC Media Lab held its Annual Summit in New York, Y Combinator’s Startup Conference took place in New Delhi, and the Asian Investigative

The Online Journalism Association held its yearly conference this weekend in Denver, Colorado, and Hacks/Hackers was there to celebrate. Abigail Edge has managed to drum up significant interest – including sponsors! – for the relatively new Colorado chapter by holding happy hours during national events like NICAR. The week ahead: * London

Welcome to another week, hacks and hackers. The Media Party last month saw the creation of several new exciting Meetup groups, like Caracas, Venezuela, and Quito, Ecuador. Spread the word to your friends in the LatAm community! The week ahead: * Mendoza, Argentina, is holding an open gov hackathon * Nairobi is