It’s a new week, hacks and hackers! This week, fellow news nerds are planning smart podcasts in Brisbane, Australia, and newsroom design systems in Zurich, Switzerland.

This month—a week from today—we're talking podcasts and the future of digital audio with a panel of three really smart podcast people: @NanceHaxton, @JamesCridland and @awrd.

RSVP here for your free dose of 🎧, 🗣, 🍕 & 🍺: https://t.co/XD2Y4xhMtd

— Hacks/Hackers BNE (@HacksHackersBNE) October 22, 2019

Also… are there any events you want fellow hacks and hackers to know about? The calendar is looking a little thin for the upcoming winter, so let us know if there’s anything you’d like to share.

The week ahead:

• Brisbane is talking about podcasts & smart speakers
• Zurich is learning how to build newsroom design systems

Worth a read:

• The Knight Center is holding a four-week online course starting next month called “Hands-On Machine Learning Solutions for Journalists,” read more about topics the course will cover here (Knight Center for the Americas)
• The Washington Post just announced a new policy that allows new parents 20 weeks of paid parental leave, which is much more generous than most other news orgs in the US (NiemanLab)
• This detailed D3 tutorial walks through visualizing some data from Google’s Public Data Explorer as an interactive, dynamic pie chart (Sitepoint)

Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the sheer number of images or documents, or hours of video you needed to sort through for a report? Training a machine to do the work for you may be the answer. Learn how in @utknightcenter's 4-week course. Cost: $95 https://t.co/cMNAmaOct4 pic.twitter.com/6Av4f5tqYc

— GIJN (@gijn) October 24, 2019

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