Breaking the Y axis
Happy Sunday, hacks and hackers! This past year has affected innumerable things, including the entire practice of data visualization.
Infographics will be among the facets of culture that will take years to adapt and recover from the shock that was the Coronavirus pandemic.
Worth a read:
- Datasets from 2020 were off the charts, literally; 2020 data from topics like employment, mobility and COVID itself will be breaking the y-axis on charts for years to come.
- The front-end apps and tools for creating data visualizations are constantly changing, and this blogpost gives an updated rundown of what the data viz tools ecosystem of 2021 looks like for maps, charts, tables, timelines and more.
- After scraping article headlines from the NYT’s online front page every five minutes since mid-February, this blogger found that less than half of the articles were news, while about a third were feature articles and a fifth were opinion.
Job postings:
- Anywhere - Investigative Reporter, The Gecko Project
- Anywhere - Sr. Project Manager, News Revenue Hub
- Anywhere - Regional Impact Coordinator, Global Forum for Media Development
- China - Data Researcher, Reuters
- Hungary - Journalist, Investigate Europe
- Indonesia - Investigative Reporter, The Gecko Project
- Scotland - Tech Development Internship, Dow Jones
- Turkey - Project Coordinator, Free Turkey Journalists
- US - Sr. Research Associate, APM
- US - Projects Reporter, Boston Business Journal
- US - Data Journalist, Center for Public Integrity
- US - Global Tech Researcher, Committee to Protect Journalists
- US - Outreach/Communications Manager, CUNY
- US - Chief Scientist, Gannett
- US - Development Assistant, GIJN
- US - Head of Data Viz Strategy/Engineering, Graphicacy
- US - Sr. Product Designer, Industry Dive
- US - Consumer Experience Content Strategist, McClatchy
- US - Data Visualization Developer, Urban Institute
Upcoming events:
- April 14-15, Online, #UNCOVERED Conference
- April 15-16, Online, SKUP Conference
- April 20-23, Online, Pulitzer Center Conference
- April 26-30, Online, International Symposium on Online Journalism
- May 1-3, Namibia, World Press Freedom Day Conference
- May 18-21, France, Assises Internationales du Journalisme de Tours
- June 7-11, Online, RightsCon
- June 14-15, Germany, Global Media Forum
- June 14-18, Online, Investigative Reporters & Editors Conference
- August 11-13, Online, SRCCON
- August 26-28, Ukraine, Lviv Media Forum
- November 3-5, Online, GIJN Conference
Other opportunities:
- April 25, European journalists can apply for Google News Initiative fellowship
- Rolling deadline, Funding from Google to fact-check vaccine misinformation
- Rolling deadline, Funding to cover Covid in Black Sea countries
- Rolling deadline, FIJ grant for Americans to cover COVID-19
- Rolling deadline, IWMF relief grant for COVID-19 struggles
- Rolling deadline, Eyebeam grants for artistic contributions to journalism
