Newsletter

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

It’s a new year, hacks and hackers, and newsrooms seem to be ushering in the new: more than two dozen job openings were posted since our last newsletter, ranging from Research Professor to Motion Graphics Editor. The Washington Post alone named eight new openings on its new rapid-response investigations