We’re halfway through the year, hacks and hackers! The Data Journalism Awards were presented this weekend at the GEN Summit in Athens, and the IRE Conference took place in Houston, Texas.

Congratulations to the nominees and winners of the 2019 @GENinnovate #DataJournalismAwards. Pleased to have represented the @GoogleNewsInit in #Athens to present an award this evening. Amazing entries from around the world. pic.twitter.com/EiGWa7XTHW

— Matt Cooke (@mattcooke_uk) June 14, 2019

You can see the DJA winners here and catch more lessons, tipsheets and more at #GENsummit and #IRE19.

Happening this week:

• London is talking about disinformation, uncertainty and storytelling

Worth a read:

• Two reporters from Reveal shared tips on creating a system for “networked reporting”, aka crowdsourcing (GIJN)
• The Reuters Digital News Report, one of the most revered studies of digital news consumption around the world, released the 2019 report at the GEN Summit (Reuters Institute)
• A report last week that Google made $4.7 billion off of news sites, via Google News, is probably way off, NiemanLab reports (NiemanLab)

📣Out today: the Digital News Report 2019.
This year's report, surveying 75,000 people in 38 countries, looks at trust, concern over misinformation, news avoidance, populism's impact, top brands, how people access news and much more.
Find it here: https://t.co/NNzQSPhcyX#DNR19 pic.twitter.com/yLctFpIeVp

— Reuters Institute (@risj_oxford) June 12, 2019

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