Apply for a credibility grant
Welcome back, hacks and hackers! Our frequent collaborators, the organizers of WikiConference North America, have opened a second round of funding for WikiCred grants.
These grants range from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars and support projects that increase credibility on the web, especially in regards to Wikipedia. Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis, so apply soon!
Worth a read:
- How are children staying informed about COVID-19? Nieman Lab took a look at how news orgs are addressing the pandemic in their kids’ sections, and even featured a news site created by kids for kids (Nieman Lab)
- Storytelling with Data wrote a blogpost about choosing colors for data visualization by explaining the basics of the color wheel (Storytelling with Data)
- VICE interviewed its Gen Z readers and put together an innovative, stats-filled web presentation chronicling the insights it gathered on Zoomers (VICE)
Job openings:
- Anywhere - Online Producer, GIJN
- Anywhere - Technical Writer, Open Refine
- Anywhere - Freelance Illustrators/Designers, Rest of World
- Anywhere - Reporting Fellow, Rest of World
- South Africa - Senior Lecturer, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
- UK - Junior Designer, The Jewish Chronicle
- UK - Data Projects Editor, The Telegraph
- US - Summer Editorial Fellows, Business Insider
- US - Analyst, Climate Nexus
- US - US Investigations Editor, openDemocracy
- US - Research/Writing Assistant, Poynter
- US - Data Science Manager and other jobs, SmartNews
- US - Investigative Reporter, Wisconsin Watch
Upcoming events:
- May 14-15, Online, Collaborative Journalism Summit
- June 2-4, Online, Data + Narrative Workshop
- June 24-27, Online, Global Fact 7
- June 25-28, Online, Allied Media Conference
- July 4, Düsseldorf, Germany, JournoCon
- July 16-17, Online, SRCCON
- July 19-Aug 1, Washington DC, US, AAJA Conference
- Aug 5-9, Online, NABJxNAHJ Convention
- Aug 27-30, National Harbor, US, IRE Conference
- Sep 10-12, Washington DC, US, Excellence in Journalism Conference
- Sep 10-13, Chicago, US, The Association of LGBTQ journalists (NLGA)
- Sep 13-16, Phoenix, US, National Native Media Conference
- Sep 21-25, Geneva, Switzerland, AI for Good Summit
- Sep 23-27, Boise, US, Environmental Journalism Conference
- Sep 30-Oct 3, Atlanta, US, Online News Association Conference
- Nov 5-8, Mechelen, Belgium, EIJC & Dataharvest
- Dec 4-6, Austin, US, Journalism & Women Symposium
Other opportunities:
- June 15, Data journalism award on Amazon Forest coverage
- Rolling deadline, National Geographic grants to cover COVID-19
- Rolling deadline, FIJ grant for Americans to cover COVID-19
- Rolling deadline, IWMF relief grant for COVID-19 struggles
- Rolling deadline, ECFJ grants for stories on elections, AI, disinformation, etc.
- Rolling deadline, Solutions Journalism Network travel fellowship
- Rolling deadline, Ukraine Media Development Fund
- Rolling deadline, Contest fees for submitting solutions stories
- Rolling deadline, Fund for Environmental Journalism Rapid Response Grants
