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Hacks/Hackers is a(n online) space to talk about the intersection between technology and journalism.

In March 2021, we restarted our meetup series with an online event titled ‘Covid and Us’ to take stock of how the coronavirus has changed you - our community.

This month, we’ll be taking a closer look at the changes shaking up American newsrooms. A new movement is underway to create workplaces for journalists that are anti-racist, equitable, inclusive, and collaborative. It promises to produce media reports of that ilk which will empower communities that have long been underrepresented and underserved. As with all movements that start in the US, it is only a matter of time until European newsrooms will feel the effects.

On 26 April, we will have three presentations of around 10-15 minutes providing us with the latest developments from the US as well as European reactions. Please bring your questions and your own beverage (BYOB style!).

Please RSVP with Yes to receive the Zoom link for the meetup a day before the event.

SPEAKERS:
Sisi Wei (@sisiwei)
is the Director of Programs at OpenNews and in 2020, she launched the DEI Coalition for Anti-Racist, Equitable, and Just Newsooms. The Coalition is co-creating with over 100 members of the community, two digital organizing spaces for journalists to organize, take collective action, and share knowledge in the service of a more equitable journalism industry. Sisi’s current work also includes Vision25, a partnership between OpenNews, the Online News Association, and the Maynard Institute, to build journalistic institutions where newsrooms are actively anti-racist and collaborative, and journalists of color feel like they truly belong. Previously, Sisi was the Assistant Managing Editor at ProPublica, during which she edited news apps, graphics, visual investigations, and large, interdisciplinary projects.

Rebecca Roth & Natalie Sablowski (@NDMedienmacher)
Since 2010, Neue deutsche Medienmacherinnen (NdM) has been supporting journalists with an immigration background through a mentoring program. Following the events in 2015, the program has also successfully supported exiled journalists in gaining a foothold in the German media business. Rebecca Roth worked as a radio and TV journalist for more than ten years and is a founding member of Neue deutsche Medienmacherinnen e.V. and freelance data journalist and NdM-member Natalie Sablowski will talk about the association that is a nationwide alliance of media professionals that campaigns for more diversity in the media and will present their newest findings on diversity in German newsrooms.

Hilde Weeg & Christine Olderdissen (@Journalistinnen)
Founded in 1987, the League of Women Journalists (Journalistinnenbund) is a network for female professionals working in all branches of the media. With "Genderleicht.de" we host a platform that provides tools, advice & background information mainly for media professionals around questions of "adequate gender-representation" in (German) media-language. Hilde Weeg is a radio journalist, vice-president of jb and coordinator of the jb-Mentoring-Programme, Christine Olderdissen is a tv-journalist and manager of the genderleicht.de-Platform.(find more at: journalistinnen.de).

As always, if you can help us find speakers, hosts or have a burning desire for a specific topic to be covered please contact us.

Kind regards,
Hacks/Hackers Berlin organising team

[image by Suzy Hazelwood]

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