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Greetings, hacks and hackers, and welcome to another week packed full of local H/H events. If you're in New York, Singapore, Philly, Sao Paolo, Abuja or Lagos, check out the new skills you can learn this month:

The week ahead:

Worth a read:

  • Bellingcat, a social verification company in the UK, put together an enormous list of tools for vetting images and social media posts (Bellingcat)
  • If a Google user subscribes to a news outlet, articles from that outlet will start to appear higher in their search results, Google is expected to announce (Bloomberg)
  • For profit, or nonprofit? No matter their goals, news startups are having to decide (MediaShift)

Job openings:

Location Employer Opening
US New Yorker Data journalist
US Financial Times Data visualization journalist
US ICIJ Front-end developer
US Marshall Project Digital projects editor
US Deseret News Software engineer

Upcoming events:

Month Day City Country Event
March 21-23 Bristol UK Data for Development Festival
March 21-23 Vail US DigiDay Publishing Summit
March 22 Campinas Brazil Digital Media, Technology and Society Conference
March 23-25 Boston US The Power of Narrative conference
March 30-1 Boston US Journalism unConference
April 11-15 Perugia Italy International Journalism Conference
April 13-14 Austin US ISOJ International Symposium on Online Journalism
April 19-22 Montreal Canada The International Conference on Narrative
April 21 Montreal Canada Data Visualization on Mobile Devices workshop
May 3-4 Accra Ghana UNESCO World Press Freedom Day
May 10-11 Montclair US Collaborative Journalism Summit
May 16-18 Toronto Canada RightsCon journalism security conference
May 24-27 Mechelen Belgium Dataharvest European investigative journalism symposium
May 30-1 Oakland US Code for America summit

Project funding:

Deadline Fund
Rolling MisinfoCon micro-grants
Rolling Solutions Journalism Network Freelance Fund
Rolling Ukraine Media Development Fund
March MENA prize for media entrepreneurship
March #Disrupt Journalism Education fellowship
March Funding for anti-misinformation tools in Brazil
April Open Society Initiative for West Africa
April Matter Cohort for media entrepreneurs
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