Hello, hacks and hackers! OpenNews opened a new round of scholarships focusing on journalism & tech events from April through September.

Applications are open TODAY for our second round of 2019 ticket+travel scholarships! Is there a journalism event coming up that could transform the way you work? Tell us about it! https://t.co/qKbWnpRmmN

— OpenNews (@opennews) March 26, 2019

The scholarships cover the cost of registration plus an extra $500 USD for travel. Apply by Friday!

Also look out for our monthly global call happening Wednesday, April 3:

Worth a read:

• According to a Pew Research Center survey, 71 percent of Americans believe local news media is doing well financially and only 14 percent have directly paid for local news (Pew Research Center)
• Choosing whether or not to use machine-learning in journalism is both a technical and ethical decision, find out what the benefits and challenges are in this GIJN writeup (GIJN)
• Python is one of the most popular languages used by data journalists, and this diagram maps out 50 of the most popular Python libraries for data science and explains how they’re used (IBM)

Only 14% of Americans have paid for or given money to local news of any kind — print, digital, public radio pledge drive, *anything* — in the past year. Ouch. https://t.co/OMCZqzqBpR

— Joshua Benton (@jbenton) March 26, 2019

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