Newsletter

It’s the end of 2016, hacks and hackers, a year of cultural and political trends, movements and upsets. These trends in different regions have led to a serious questioning of transparency (both for governments and journalists), the use of open data and prediction models. There are certainly enough opinions,

Happy holidays, hacks and hackers, to those of you celebrating. To everyone else, I hope you are staying warm (or cool, depending on your hemisphere). Many groups are either celebrating or hibernating right about now, but job postings are up in other parts of the world – check out the list

We’re midway through the coldest months – unless, of course, you live on the southern hemisphere – and techs and reporters are burrowing into projects or warm coats, or both. Montreal, who we featured in October, met for a Pandas and D3 party last week. Check out the group spotlight for

Season’s greetings, hacks and hackers! The holidays are closing in on us – at least on those of us in the western world, and many groups and people are slowing down and starting to hibernate. But not Hacks/Hackers! There’s still time to help us pick a new logo,

It’s a new month, hacks and hackers, and if you’ve been reading this a while, you know that means one thing: a Hacks/Hackers global call. Check out the agenda to see what we’ll be chatting about. If you can’t make it, please take this super

Greetings, hacks and hackers. A lot of the suggested reads this week follow the same trends as last week: cybersecurity and privacy, fake news and press freedom. On the plus side, there’s a veritable deluge of journalism job postings this week, from San Francisco to Hong Kong to Johannesburg.