Newsletter

Happy Friday, hacks and hackers! We hope to see you this weekend at MisinfoCon or next week at NICAR. If not, you can follow along at #MisinfoCon and #NICAR17. In the meantime, Billy Penn and the Knight Foundation are putting together a mobile journalism playbook and they’d like your

Hello, hacks and hackers! We made it through Valentine’s Day (at least, those of us who live in countries that celebrate it) and we’re now less than a month from the popular NICAR conference. If you’re planning to go, join us for lunch in the hotel restaurant

Greetings, hacks and hackers! It was a packed week last week for Hacks/Hackers groups, with Caracas launching its own two-day Data Party, Singapore building tools together and Philadelphia taking a peep at some awesome National Geographic projects. Plus, New Orleans‘ first hackathon generated so much interest among journos, coders

Welcome to February, hacks and hackers. We had a packed global call on Wednesday where we first unveiled the new website (still in prototype form). What do you think? Also, we’ve got journalism jobs on every continent this week, and journalism events leading into May, so read on: The

Welcome to another Friday, hacks and hackers! We’ve got a bigger announcement than usual this week: Several Hacks/Hackers organizers, including Jenny 8. Lee, Burt Herman and Phillip Smith, have launched an anti-fake news event called MisinfoCon in Boston. It’s coming up in one short month, so put

Happy Friday, hacks and hackers. After a winter hibernation (or summer nap, for those in the southern hemisphere), seven Hacks/Hackers groups are holding their first events of 2017, including in Asia, Europe, North America and Africa. The week ahead: * Nairobi is looking at tools that help indentify fake news