Apply for the Stanford Knight fellowship
Get ready, hacks and hackers! The year is wrapping up and the year-end roundups are on their way. It's also your last week to apply for the Stanford JSK Fellowship.
It also means the Hacks/Hackers global call is coming up. Don't miss your chance to join the last planning call of the twenty-teens.
Worth a read:
- Thanksgiving travel, public transport and data viz beyond pie charts: check out GIJN's Top 10 in Data Journalism for the last week of November (GIJN)
- Three digital media outlets in Venezuela are joining forces to create a consortium they're calling Rebel Alliance Investigates (Knight Center)
- The founder of BuzzFeed says governments and social platforms alike are making more of an effort to control viral content (New York Magazine)
Upcoming events:
| Month | Day | City | Country | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December | 6 | Munich | Germany | News Impact Summit: Identity and Inclusion in Local News |
| December | 13-15 | Kyiv | Ukraine | Conference on Investigative Journalism |
| February | 18-20 | Chiang Mai | Thailand | Splice Asian Media Conference |
| March | 5-8 | New Orleans | US | NICAR Conference |
| March | 20-21 | Boston | US | Computation + Journalism Symposium |
| March | 20-22 | Boston | US | Power of Narrative |
| April | 1-5 | Perugia | Italy | International Journalism Conference |
| May | 14-17 | Mechelen | Belgium | EIJC & Dataharvest |
| June | 2-5 | Seoul | South Korea | International Anti-Corruption Conference |
| June | 9-12 | Heredia | Costa Rica | RightsCon |
| June | 18-21 | National Harbor | US | IRE Conference |
| June | 24-27 | Oslo | Norway | Global Fact 7 |
Job openings:
| Location | Employer | Opening |
|---|---|---|
| Hong Kong | South China Morning Post | Data engineer |
| UK | Evening Standard | Video journalist |
| US | WSJ | Graphics Editor |
| US | WSJ | Full-stack developer |
| US | Financial Times | Elections data journalist |
| US | Hearst | Newsroom developer |
| US | Politico | Deputy tech editor |
Other opportunities:
| Deadline | Fund |
|---|---|
| December 4 | Apply for Stanford journalism fellowship |
| December 13 | Submit student data viz examples and get free conference entry |
| December 13 | Apply for European Press Prize |
| April 3-5 | Information Ethics Roundtable in Boston |
| Rolling | ECFJ grants for stories on elections, AI, disinformation, etc. |
| Rolling | Solutions Journalism Network Freelance Fund |
| Rolling | Ukraine Media Development Fund |
| Rolling | Contest fees for submitting solutions stories |
