Hello, hacks and hackers! The call for participation just opened up for the 2020 Computation + Journalism Symposium, which is taking place this coming March in Boston.

Excited to share the call for participation for next year's Computation + Journalism Symposium: https://t.co/upp9aWhIBk -- submissions due Dec 13th.

— Nick Diakopoulos (@ndiakopoulos) September 18, 2019

And U.S. journalists and news orgs can apply to have a Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press attorney provide pro bono legal support as part of their Local Legal Initiative. Deadline for proposals is October 31.

The week ahead:

• Boston is getting smarter with data viz
• Montreal is meeting up at the pub
• London is discussing impact in journalism

Worth a read:

• A USC-Annenberg journalism professor spoke about how tech platforms like Facebook and Google are becoming more and more prevalent in daily life and how their prominence is affecting civil society (NiemanLab)
• Autocrats around the world are using social media as a platform to communicate their agendas quickly and directly with the public while undermining journalists’ credibility, and this GIJN piece gives examples of how journalists use the same tools to fight back (GIJN)
• Data viz professor Alberto Cairo wrote a book on graphical literacy called ‘How Charts Lie’ and you can check out the first 20+ pages of it for free here (Alberto Cairo)

Read the first 20+ pages of 'How Charts Lie' now and FOR FREE:https://t.co/Z2QAd5QgU1#HowChartsLie #DataViz #infographics #DataJournalism #ddj pic.twitter.com/JmO0xmnHJr

— Alberto Cairo (@AlbertoCairo) October 8, 2019

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