Guess what, hacks and hackers! You’re in the news. This month, the Stirling News, The Times and The Scotsman all profiled MisinfoCon and H/H, due to MisinfoConX Scotland happening this week.

#HacksHackers is in the news today: @Stirling_News talks #MisinfoConXSco and @hackshackerssco https://t.co/0vPrvZfXRs

— Hacks/Hackers (@HacksHackers) January 24, 2019

You can follow MisinfoConX thoughts at #MisinfoConXSco. Plus, the Data Journalism Awards tapped H/H Taipei to talk about key trends in data reporting this year:

Thanks #datajournalismawards features us #HHTPE on their latest coverage: "Key trends for data journalism in 2019 !" #hackshackers #ddj #Taiwan https://t.co/0VxXYSraho

— HacksHackersTaipei (@hackshackersTPE) January 21, 2019

Happening this week:

• Nairobi is hacking Kenya’s traffic laws
• IRE is holding its regular open lab
• Arequipa is creating stories with programming
• Dar es Salaam is making easy infographics

Worth a read:

• This New Yorker essay summarizes the history of journalism from the 1800s to the present day and muses on how differently modern orgs choose their stories and fund their newsrooms (New Yorker)
• We talk a lot about all the fake news on the internet, but how much of the rest of the internet is fake? “Turns out, a lot of it, actually.” (New York Magazine)
• This Twitter thread from a journalism professor explains why media layoffs keep happening from a largely economic standpoint (Jeremy Littau, Lehigh University)

For those who aren’t quite sure why these media layoffs keep happening, or think “it’s the internet!” or “people don’t pay to subscribe,” there’s a lot more going on. Though that is part of that. Here’s a cliffs notes version - not exhaustive but it hits the highlights:

— Jeremy Littau (@JeremyLittau) January 24, 2019

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