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Sign up for the Hacks/Hackers new newsletter

We’re launching a new newsletter as a way for you to learn from and about what’s going on in the more than 70(!) Hacks/Hackers groups around the world. Each newsletter will include a list of upcoming events, a section spotlighting an interesting group or member, a few

First ever global Hacks/Hackers conference call on Sept. 1

Greetings from Buenos Aires! I’ve spent the last few days at the Media Party that Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires has put on for the fourth year in a row, bringing hundreds of people to be inspired, collaborate and hack together. It’s an amazing event that shows the potential

Hacks/Hackers launches Connect series in Berlin

Hacks/Hackers launches Connect series in Berlin Around 100 journalists and technologists passionate about the future of media joined the weekend event in the German capital Storified by Burt Herman· Sun, Jun 28 2015 22:04:05 We kicked off Hacks/Hackers' first-ever global event series with a packed

About the Hacks/Hackers site

A few weeks ago, we launched an exciting initiative (in partnership with Google) to support media entrepreneurship, an event series we call Connect. As part of the launch, we decided to replace the main Hacks/Hackers site with an information and signup page for Connect. At the time, that seemed

Hacks/Hackers Austin: Tyler Fisher, NPR Visuals

Tyler Fisher of NPR Visuals joined us on Nov. 11 at the Statesman to talk about his team and their election coverage. Tyler is a recent graduate from Northwestern University with a major in Journalism. But Tyler has directed his career toward Web development and news applications. In his talk,

Hacks/Hackers Austin: Google News

The Hacks/Hackers Austin group was pleased to host a meetup featuring Google News. On October 20, Stacie Chan, a community manager at Google News, dropped by the Statesman to discuss various tools that journalists and journalism students can use. She also talked about the role of the Google News

How Twitter does data journalism: San Francisco Hacks/Hackers goes inside the nest

More than 150 hacks and hackers gathered Wednesday at Twitter’s main headquarters in San Francisco to hear the company’s Data Editor Simon Rogers talk about data’s increasingly important role in journalism and how Twitter makes sense of the hundreds of millions of tweets passing through its platform