Happy Friday, hacks and hackers, and welcome to post-U.S. election life. Many of us have been living it for well over a year – perhaps two – and it’s time to move on to newer challenges.

Probably a good time to install Signal, if you haven't already. And brush up on PGP.https://t.co/fqY80SJfd4

— Al Shaw (@A_L) November 9, 2016

One thing you can do today: buy a sub to the @nytimes or @washingtonpost. We're going to need a robust, well resourced press. #Trump

— Greg Williams (@GregWilliams718) November 9, 2016

The week ahead:

• Buenos Aires is hosting a hackathon on institutional violence
• Miami is holding its regular OpenHack Miami
• IRE in Missouri is holding its weekly meeting

Chapter spotlight:

Hacks/Hackers Southwest/South Wales launched last week in the UK, with a two-way talk from the BBC’s News Lab and the UK’s Office for National Statistics.

Enjoying the @hh_SWxSW launch. Good talks from @darrenwaters and @BBC_News_Labs so far pic.twitter.com/DdICxboK9b

— Mike Griffiths (@mrmikegriffiths) November 9, 2016

H/H SWxSW kept the momentum going by sharing ever bit of code, presentation and talk online. Check out their Twitter:

Here’s a link to @martinjc’s codehttps://t.co/98Cln16PeN

— HH_SWxSW (@hh_SWxSW) November 9, 2016

.@paulrowland1 from @WalesOnline now doing a lightning talk on the Aberfan commemoration https://t.co/s7KIx39ECM

— HH_SWxSW (@hh_SWxSW) November 9, 2016

Worth a read:

• Polls and predictive data models were largely unsuccessful in predicting the U.S. election, possibly because journalists weren’t combining data with other reporting (Digiday)
• Mark Zuckerberg is still denying the idea that Facebook affected the election by propagating fake news (BuzzFeed)
• Sunlight Labs, which created many powerful open gov tools in the U.S., officially shut down this week (Sunlight Foundation)
• The Minneapolis Star-Tribune survived the digital revolution and came out the other side even more empowered, thanks to – among other things – maintaining print as a priority (Poynter)
• Brazilian newspapers have actually gained record audiences after instituting paywalls (Knight Center)

Job openings:

• North America:
  • St Louis Public Radio is hiring a “visual communications specialist“
  • The Austin Business Journal is looking for a tech reporter
  • McClatchy has an opening for a designer/developer
  • Observer Media is looking for a WordPress engineer
• Latin America:
  • Fox seeks a digital media coordinator in Brazil
• Europe:
  • Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project has an opening for a fact-checker manager
  • Investigative news site Apache is looking for an investigative reporter in Antwerpen
• Africa:
  • WITS University has an opening for a journalism and media lecturer

Upcoming events:

• November:
  • Nov 11-13 – Dublin, Ireland – Hacks/Hackers Dublin’s Investigative Journalism on the Digital Frontier Conference
  • Nov 18-19 – Leuven, Belgium – VVOJ conference, a gathering of the Dutch-Flemish Association of Investigative Journalists
  • Nov 19-20 – London, UK – the Parliament Accountability Hack, aka ParlyHack
  • Nov 22 – Birmingham, UK – a one-day data journalism conference
  • Nov 22-23 – Covilha, Portugal – the Journalism and Mobile Devices Congress
  • Nov 23-24 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – European Women in Technology Conference
• December:
  • Dec 1-4 – Panama City, Panama – the International Anti-Corruption Conference
  • Dec 2-3 – Dead Sea, Jordan – the Arab Investigative Journalism Conference
  • Dec 5-6 – San Francisco, USA – Mobile Innovation Summit