Greetings, hacks and hackers. Storyology swept Australia’s media scene last week, and the Hacks/Hackers Media Party is already coming up next week! This week, New Orleans is opening a new chapter, with drinks to celebrate. Spread the word if you know any journos or techies in the Big Easy.

We have our first meetup! Come to the first #HHnola next week at @MimisMarigny. Drinks on us! 🍻 #hackshackers https://t.co/jr7DqmMSqK

— Samantha Sunne (@SamanthaSunne) August 10, 2016

The week ahead:

• Hong Kong is talking about gamifying the news
• New Orleans is hosting a welcome party to celebrate its new chapter
• Miami is holding its regular OpenHack Miami
• IRE in Missouri is holding its weekly meeting

Chapter spotlight:

Berlin featured a couple cool speakers last week, including Hacks/Hackers’ own Sarah Marshall from the London chapter. She talked about how to create products that make users want to use them again and again.

At @HacksHackersBER hearing about the work by @basilesimon &co at https://t.co/28iHkPHI5J. They monitor coalition strikes + civilian deaths

— Sarah Marshall (@SarahMarshall) August 10, 2016

Completion, variability, social rewards: attributes of news products that makes people return – @SarahMarshall #hhber

— Hacks/Hackers Berlin (@HacksHackersBER) August 10, 2016

Worth a read:

• Media outlets are experimenting with a range of cool digital presentations for their Olympics coverage (Nieman Lab)
• The Washington Post is using some computer-generated stories to cover the Rio Olympics (Recode)
• On that note, journalism ethics experts are debating whether bots should be given a byline (Poynter)
• One of the founders of the Verge is founding a New Yorker-style magazine aimed at millennials (Nieman Lab)

Job openings:

• Europe:
  • Google News Lab is offering fellowships in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
  • Bloomberg is seeking a global technology editor in London
• North America:
  • A private investigation group in New York is hiring a data visualization specialist
  • The Trace, a startup covering gun violence, is taking applications for a digital news fellowship
  • ProPublica is hiring minority students to cover their own campuses
  • The Seattle Times has an opening for a graphic artist
  • Bloomberg is hiring someone to cover Google
  • The Texas Tribune has an opening for a front-end engineer
  • St. Louis Public Radio is hiring a digital and special projects editor
  • FiveThirtyEight is taking applications for its fall internship
• Africa:
  • Code for South Africa is taking applications for its three-month residency program

Other upcoming events:

• August:
  • Aug 16-17 – Nairobi, Kenya – the East Africa Open Data Festival
  • Aug 25-27 – Buenos Aires, Argentina – the Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires Media Party
• September:
  • Sept 15-17 – Denver, USA – Online News Association (ONA)’s annual conference
  • Sept 17-20 – New Orleans, USA – Society of Professional Journalists Excellence in Journalism conference
  • Sept 20-22 – Jakarta, Indonesia – Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD)
  • Sept. 22 – New York, USA – NYC Media Lab Annual Summit, for executives, academics and startups to convene around future of media
    • (Hacks/Hackers community members can register with a 25% off discount code: HACKSHACKER)
  • Sept 23-24 – Toronto, Canada – Hacks/Hackers Connect Toronto
  • Sept 23-25 – Kathmandu, Nepal – Asian Investigative Journalism Conference
  • Sept 28-29 – Chicago, USA – INN workshop on Tech and Product Design for News Leaders
  • Sept 29-Oct 1 – Miami, USA – Digital Humanities + Data Journalism Symposium
  • Sept 30-Oct 1 – Palo Alto, USA – Computation + Journalism Symposium
• October:
  • Oct 7-9, New York, USA – Future of Storytelling Festival