Happy early Earth day, hacks and hackers! Chapters on four different continents are holding meetups this week, covering topics like open data, space technology and the IoT.

Check out this Meetup: Visualising for Space from Low-Earth orbit https://t.co/GmStro4x0r #Meetup #Singapore via @Meetup

— Rebecca Pazos (@vivi_pazos) April 12, 2019

In addition, the LA Times is hiring for over a dozen news nerd jobs! To find the full list of jobs they’re hiring for or find other news nerd jobs, scroll down to check the job openings section.

Happening this week: * London is learning about product experimentation and more * Singapore is visualizing for space * Brisbane is talking election bots and trolls * Dublin is using data viz tools * Kuala Lumpur is growing open data * Nairobi is liberating data * Kampala is learning about the Internet of Things * Lagos, Benin and Abuja have storysheets masterclasses

Worth a read: * A web literacy advocate revealed that a Bloomberg reporter’s social media profiles and portfolio were fake, and that the reporter didn’t actually exist. He explained how to tell it’s fake and tips for verifying someone’s online identity (Hapgood) * H/H London keeps a Medium account (along with a YouTube account) where they post recaps from speakers at their meetings, including a talk on how the BBC uses R and how journalists can use smart-speakers (Medium) * Journalist’s Resource at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard University created a writeup on how to use the terms ‘racist’ and ‘racism’ after the Associated Press okay’ed it last month (Poynter)

Developing bbplot — a customized version of the ggplot2 package — for #R helped to increase journalists’ productivity & improve the graphics workflow in @BBC. @cguibourg & @nassos_ explained at @HacksHackersLDN how their newsroom adopted this https://t.co/8Ux2f4OCnT pic.twitter.com/9QAmv59Ixt

— GIJN (@gijn) April 17, 2019

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