H/H Africa announces training academy, MozFest opens for proposals
Hacks/Hackers Africa is taking part in a massive 12-country collaboration called StoryLab Academy. Members can sign up for MOOCs, public workshops and other training opportunities to advance their digital journalism efforts.
Plus, Lagos held its very first meetup in Nigeria.
The week ahead:
- Manchester is talking about chatbots
- IRE is holding its regular weekly lab
- Buenos Aires is talking about civic projects around elections
Worth a read:
- Open data efforts around the world have stalled, according to a report by the World Wide Web Foundation (GIJN)
- MozFest, the open web festival, opened its call for proposals until August (Mozilla)
- Eleven outlets in 20 Latin American countries collaborated to launch an online portal for data and accountability reporting (Knight Center)
Job openings:
| Location | Employer | Opening |
|---|---|---|
| South Africa | Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct | Journalism and Media Lab intern |
| UK | The Financial Times | Senior developer |
| US | CQ Roll Call | Senior visual reporter |
| US | Wenner Media | Junior data analyst |
| US | University of Southern California | Newsroom expert |
| US | Dow Jones | Editorial product designer |
| US | The Coral Project | Lead engineer |
| US | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Front-end developer |
| US | NBC | Interactive journalist |
| US | Quartz | Web engineer |
| US | National Geographic | Director of cartography |
Upcoming events:
| Month | Day | City | Country | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June | 12-16 | Boston | US | Storytelling with Data workshop |
| June | 15-18 | Detroit | USA | Allied Media Conference |
| June | 19-21 | Bonn | Germany | Global Media Forum on identity and diversity |
| June | 20-23 | Portland | USA | Open Source Bridge |
| June | 21-22 | Phoenix | USA | INN Days, business training for nonprofit newsrooms |
| June | 21-23 | Vienna | Austria | Global Editors Network summit |
| June | 22-25 | Phoenix | USA | Investigative Reporters & Editors IRE Conference |
| June | 23-25 | McLean | USA | Data Intelligence & Machine Learning Conference |
| June | 29 | Hamburg | Germany | News Impact Summit on truth, tech & community |
| June | 29-30 | Nairobi | Kenya | Data for Development in Africa conference |
| July | 5-7 | Madrid | Spain | Global Fact-Checking Summit |
| July | 6-7 | Dublin | Ireland | European Data and Computational Journalism Conference |
| July | 13-15 | Lima | Peru | Latin American Annual Meeting of Entrepreneurial and Innovative Journalism |
| July | 19-21 | New York | USA | textAV working group on audio and video |
| August | 17-19 | Denver | USA | WordCamp for Publishers, a Wordpress event |
| August | 31-1 | Grahamstown | South Africa | Highway Africa conference on media, accountability and local governance |
| September | 14-16 | Miami | USA | Digital Humanities + Data Journalism Symposium |
| October | 4-5 | New York | USA | Future of Storytelling Summit |
| October | 13-14 | Evanston | USA | Computer + Journalism Symposium |
Project funding:
| Deadline | Name | Organization | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rolling | MisinfoCon micro-grant | MisinfoCon | Small grants for experimental projects that fight misinformation |
| Rolling | Freelance Fund | Solutions Journalism Network | Small travel stipends for reporters working on "solutions journalism" |
| June | Local news innovation grants | Lenfest Institute | Grants for experimenting, seeding and amplifying innovative news ventures |
| June | NED grant | National Endowment for Democracy | Grants for innovative media projects that support democracy |
| June | FRIDA Grants | LACNIC | Funding for an innovative communications project in Latin America |
| June | Collaborative journalism grant | Center for Cooperative Media | Grants for journalism collaborations |
| June | TruthBuzz | ICFJ | Cash prize for creative solutions to fact-checking |
| July | Next Journalism Award | Nieman Foundation | Funding for innovative journalism project in Europe |
| July | FoST Prize | Future of Storytelling | Monetary award for innovative and cutting-edge storytelling projects |
| September | INN Days reimbursement | INN | Travel stipends for INN member newsrooms traveling to INN Days in Phoenix |
