Welcome, Scotland, to the Hacks/Hackers family! The H/H Scotland chapter will be holding events in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Stirling, and their inaugural event is next Thursday. Link your Scottish friends to their Meetup page and Twitter account.

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Announcement!

Sign up now: journalists, technologists and those in-between, sign up for the Hacks/Hackers Scotland launch talking place on 11th October @gmacfilm, more details below.

See you there? https://t.co/efR3KfLXWB

— Hacks/Hackers Scotland (@HacksHackersSCO) September 20, 2018

Next Wednesday, join us on our monthly open call. We’ll be talking about CredCon, MisinfoCon London, and other exciting events.

Worth a read:

• The Outline, a digital media startup, laid off its staff writers earlier this month despite receiving $5 million in venture capital funding. CJR looks at what this means for other VC-funded media startups (Columbia Journalism Review)
• On the topic of startups, Civil is trying to use blockchain to build a new economic infrastructure for journalism. Quartz’s John Keefe documents the convoluted process of purchasing Civil tokens (NiemanLab)
• The #MeToo movement sparked a wave of citizen journalism from people contributing their stories of sexual assault on social media, leading to investigations of prominent Chinese leaders (GIJN)

The recent outpouring of #MeToo exposés in #China has signaled the emergence of a new genre of investigative journalism that is marked by user-generated content, with professional journalists serving as aggregators and fact-checkers @yingworld https://t.co/ifOKxWPUJF pic.twitter.com/Uf3NT2Xzgy

— GIJN (@gijn) September 22, 2018

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