Greetings, hacks and hackers! The enormous NICAR and SXSW conferences wrapped up last week in the U.S. - not to mention the three events in London - and we’re back to business. Check out Berlin’s three speakers this week, or the website for more upcoming local events.

Don't miss our next chapter on 13th of March. We'll meet @zeitonline and have amazing speakers for you! https://t.co/jc0qB4ETb2

— Hacks/Hackers Berlin (@HacksHackersBER) March 6, 2018

The week ahead:

• Miami and IRE are holding their regular open labs
• Berlin is learning about Mozart, Marx and a Dictator

Worth a read:

• Journalists are excited to embrace emerging technologies, but appropriate business models are slow to catch up (Fast Company)
• On the topic of business models: home assistants like Amazon’s Alexa were a hot item last year. How can journalists monetize them? (NiemanLab)
• Chrys Wu, an organizer of H/H NYC, compiled a massive list of tutorials and tipsheets from the computer reporting conference that happened last week (Chrys Wu)

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