Answer the State of Journalism survey
Hello, hacks and hackers! MuckRack’s annual State of Journalism survey is live, and you can fill it out here. The survey tracks the biggest trends and challenges facing the industry each year, and responses stay anonymous.
Last year, around 2,400 journalists filled out the form and you can check out the insights from last year’s survey results here.
Worth a read:
- Using a text sentiment analysis processor, a data scientist analyzed how positive the NYT coverage was for each of the last four U.S. presidents’ first months in office to see how they compared.
- If you want to incorporate Pantone’s 2022 Color of the Year, Very Peri, into your data visualizations, here’s a guide from Nightingale on how best to do it.
- This Nieman Lab article goes over the fine line between traffic and optimization when analyzing audience metrics to figure out what topics are best to cover.
Jobs:
- Anywhere - Editor, Bellingcat
- Anywhere - Researcher, International Media Support
- Anywhere - Judicial Guide Web Developer, Injustice Watch
- Germany - Financial Correspondent, Reuters
- Latin America - Researcher, OCCRP
- North Africa/West Asia - Program Manager, Meedan
- UK - Digital News SEO Reporter, The Sun
- US - Sr. Systems Administrator, Chalkbeat
- US - Chief Operating Officer, ICIJ
- US - Investigative Data Reporter, Insider
- US - Knight Chair in Scholastic Journalism, Kent State University
- US - Climate Investigative Data Journalist, KQED
- US - Information Justice Professor, Northeastern University
- US - Money-In-Politics Reporter, OpenSecrets
Upcoming events:
- February 4-5, Online, Outlier Conference
- February 22-23, Online, Global eSummit: Journalism and the Climate Crisis
- March 3-6, Atlanta, US, NICAR
- March 7-10, Online, MozFest
- March 10-11, Online, News Product Alliance Summit
- March 17-19, Tunis, Tunisia, Assises Internationales du Journalisme
- March 18-19, Online/Boston, US, The Power of Narrative Conference
- April 1-2, Austin, US, International Symposium on Online Journalism
- April 1-3, Tønsberg, Norway, SKUP Conference
- April 6-10, Perugia, Italy, International Journalism Festival
- May 19-20, Chicago, US, Collaborative Journalism Summit
- May 19-22, Mechelen, Belgium, Dataharvest
- June 6-10, Online, RightsCon
- June 20-21, Bonn, Germany, DW Global Media Forum
- June 22-23, Minneapolis, US, SRCCON
- June 22-25, Oslo, Norway, Global Fact Conference
- June 23-26, Denver, US, IRE
- June 27-30, Honolulu, US, EWC International Media Conference
- June 27-July 1, Medellín, Colombia, World Conference of Science Journalists
- July 8-13, Shanghai, China, World Journalism Education Congress
- July 15-17, Couthures-sur-Garonne, France, Festival International de Journalisme
Other opportunities:
- Rolling deadline, Pitch freelance stories in US news deserts to Parachute
- Rolling deadline, Funding from Google to fact-check vaccine misinformation
- Rolling deadline, Eyebeam grants for artistic contributions to journalism
