Congrats, American hacks and hackers, for making it through a much-hyped midterm election cycle! Check out Poynter’s roundup of innovative election coverage to find ideas to use in your newsroom for the 2020 elections.

.@Poynter's @kristenhare did a great little writeup of innovative election projects, including the interactive midterms quiz @ejudem and I created for @wgbhnews listeners: https://t.co/7cSvDkKmWU pic.twitter.com/zWvRedJhvE

— Lisa Williams (@lisawilliams) November 7, 2018

And don’t forget, CredCon is happening this weekend! Hacks/Hackers’ first credibility hackathon will feature a number of speakers and exciting projects you can follow at #CredCon.

Happening this week:

• IRE is holding its regular open lab
• Brisbane is electing its management committee
• Austin is hosting CredCon

Worth a read:

• Even though Civil failed to meet its sale goals, the cryptocurrency company managed to bring 14 newsrooms to life in less than a year with $6 million in investment (Medium)
• At what point does an illustration become an infographic? Scientific American published a talk from its senior graphics editor on the intersection between science and design (Scientific American)
• Apple employs humans to make decisions about which articles to show in its Apple News app, rather than using an automated algorithm (NYT)

Visualizing Science: Where does the illustrator end and the infographer begin? How does data visualization fit in? And what does science have to say about the design decisions we make? https://t.co/Z7b7YAVSCk (By @ChristiansenJen) pic.twitter.com/fF20mugabI

— Scientific American (@sciam) October 26, 2018

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