If you work across disciplines or manage people who do, this manifesto for happy newsrooms by Uli Köppen is a must-read. It shares some of the secrets behind the success of multidisciplinary newsrooms: live in beta mode; work on a common language; and hone a digital strategy and mindset among other things. In case you can only read one thing today, read this. 

I didn’t know there were that many, but National Geographic taught me that our solar system hosts nearly 200 moons! I really liked their atlas of moons, see image.

Data reporter Stephen Stirling shares his experience with selling data behind the journalism production the Force Report. 

Using this tool you can now make graphs where your audience needs to guess the line before the actual data is shown. Nice idea now made more readily available by the MU Collective. 

The 24th of August (in Amsterdam) The Correspondent organises a hackathon to look into prostitution networks. They’re still looking for some Pythonistas. :)

“We don’t allow people to sell their kidneys. We shouldn’t let them sell the details of their lives, either.” Read why selling your private data a terrible idea is at the New York Times - FYI the newspaper does track you if you click this link.