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Event Roundup, Sept 14

By Erika Owens

Posted on September 14, 2015
Meetups this week in Venezia, London, New York, Sydney, Montreal, Rochester, and Buenos Aires. Plus, upcoming session and award proposal deadlines.
News Nerd Roundup, Sept 8

By Lindsay Muscato

Posted on September 8, 2015
A roundup of what’s currently on our minds and in our browser tabs, assembled here for our fellow news nerds.
Event Roundup, Aug 31

By Erika Owens

Posted on August 31, 2015
It’s a great week to work on proposals: MozFest, SNDMakes Austin, and NICAR 2016 have upcoming deadlines.
Event Roundup, Aug 24

By Erika Owens

Posted on August 24, 2015
This week the Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires Media Party brings hundreds of news nerds to Argentina.
News Nerd Roundup, Aug 21

By Lindsay Muscato

Posted on August 21, 2015
A few of our favorite pieces from the Los Angeles Times, NPR, the Post and Courier and more.
Event Roundup, Aug 17

By Erika Owens

Posted on August 17, 2015
A few meetups this week, plus it’s your last chance to apply to be a 2016 Knight-Mozilla Fellow.
Event Roundup, Aug 10

By Erika Owens

Posted on August 10, 2015
If you’re in Germany, you have a couple chances this week to learn about the Knight-Mozilla Fellowships.
Event Roundup, Aug 3

By Erika Owens

Posted on August 3, 2015
Demos at Hacks/Hackers meetups this week in Seattle and next week in New York.
News Nerd Roundup, July 31, 2015

By Lindsay Muscato

Posted on July 31, 2015
Recent pieces that we loved from ProPublica and Matter, BuzzFeed, the Daily Herald and WBEZ, New York Magazine, and more.
A User-Centered Conversation at SRCCON

By Lindsay Muscato

Posted on July 30, 2015
At SRCCON, we heard a lot about a user-centered approach. What does that mean for journalism?
Fellows + Code Convening = New Open Source Tools

By Erin Kissane

Posted on July 29, 2015
Our fifth OpenNews code convening wrapped up last Friday. Uniquely for our convenings, this one included all seven of our current Knight-Mozilla Fellows, each working with a colleague from their news organization or another organization with shared challenges and complimentary skills. Over the next week, we’ll be posting project introductions from each of the seven project teams that joined us in Portland for the event. In the interim, a quick intro to the teams, the projects they brought to the convening, and what they got done.
Event Roundup, July 27

By Erika Owens

Posted on July 27, 2015
Meetups this week in Austin, Tokyo, NYC, DC, Bogota, Miami, and Montevideo, plus it’s your last chance to pitch to the Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires Media Party
Event Roundup, July 20

By Erika Owens

Posted on July 20, 2015
Chat with OpenNews this week about Knight-Mozilla Fellowships, or apply for the HBCU fellowship to ONA.
Event Roundup, July 13

By Erika Owens

Posted on July 13, 2015
Media Factory bootcamps continue this week, with Knight-Mozilla Fellowship alum Sonya Song in Lima.
You Are Such Polymaths

By Lindsay Muscato

Posted on July 10, 2015
At SRCCON, OpenNews’s two-day conference in Minneapolis last month, we basked in the collective smarts of 220+ attendees and nearly 50 sessions. Afterward, we heard a lot of lovely feedback (people like snacks and unisex bathrooms and child care, and we are so very happy you were happy). So we’d like to reflect back some thoughts about you. Like: it was really clear, in a tangible way, that you have more gears, switches, and hidden functions than Furiosa’s war rig.
Event Roundup, July 6

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Posted on July 6, 2015
The third Hacking Journalism event is in DC this weekend, plus a data visualization workshop in Pittsburgh, and Hacks/Hackers meetups around the world.
Event Roundup, June 22

By Erika Owens

Posted on June 22, 2015
It’s time for SRCCON, plus the first Hacks/Hackers Connect, Open Source Bridge, and local meetups.
Event Roundup, June 15

By Erika Owens

Posted on June 15, 2015
Engage Local and Allied Media conferences this week, plus the application for the 2016 Knight-Mozilla Fellowship is now open.
Seven Projects from the OpenNews + Write the Docs Code Convening

By Kathryn Beaty, Scott Blumenthal, Audrey Carlsen, Stijn Debrouwere, Cathy Deng, Ben Keith, Erin Kissane, Ryan Nagle, Gabriela Rodriguez, Michael Strickland, Seth Vincent, and Thomas Wilburn

Posted on June 9, 2015
Journalist-coders tackled last-mile work and documentation at our Open News code convening in May, held in affiliation with the Write the Docs conference. Here’s what they did and what comes next.
Event Roundup, June 8

By Erika Owens

Posted on June 8, 2015
Meetups on Thursday in London, Buenos Aires, and Austin, plus one week left to pitch a session to Write the Docs Europe.