Collaboration is the name of the game
Welcome to May, hacks and hackers! We've got a theme for this week's newsletter: collaboration. The Collaborative Journalism Summit just wrapped up in New Jersey with the announcement of a sizable grant for journalism outlets pursuing collaborative projects.
Plus, several major outlets, including the New York Times, announced major partnerships this week. Keep reading for more details.
The week ahead:
- Birmingham is telling stories with chatbots
- Rosario is holding a hackathon
- IRE in Missouri is holding its weekly open lab
Worth a read:
- NiemanLab published a piece outlining the challenges and opportunities for bridging collaborations between local and national media (NiemanLab)
- Melody Kramer, in a column last month, shared 56 distinct examples of collaborations between newsrooms (Poynter)
- Reporters Without Borders released its yearly press freedom index, reporting declining press freedom in democratic countries (GIJN)
Job openings:
| Country | Employer | Opening |
|---|---|---|
| Hong Kong | South China Morning Post | Infographic designer |
| Jordan | Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) | Fact-checker |
| UK | Thomson Reuters Foundation | Digital and social writer |
| USA | The Dallas Morning News | Computational Journalist |
| USA | The Wall Street Journal | News Interaction Designer |
| USA | The Wall Street Journal | Newsroom Developer |
| USA | Wired | Engineering Manager |
| USA | ProPublica | Data Science Adviser |
| USA | BuzzFeed | Tech reporter |
| USA | Alley Interactive | UX developer |
| USA | Alley Interactive | JavaScript developer |
| USA | Marketplace | Software developer |
Upcoming events:
| Month | Day | City | Country | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May | 1-2 | Amman | Jordan | Arab Media Forum |
| May | 1-4 | Jakarta | Indonesia | UNESCO's conference for World Press Freedom Day |
| May | 4-6 | Galway | Ireland | MoJoCon, the Mobile Journalism Conference |
| May | 5-6 | Madrid | Spain | Digital tools workshop at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid |
| May | 13–14 | San Francisco | USA | Come & Play audio storytelling hackathon hosted by BuzzFeed and audiosear.ch |
| May | 15-20 | San Salvador | El Salvador | Forum for Central American Journalism |
| May | 18-20 | Hamburg | Germany | International Press Institute World Congress on media freedom in the digital age |
| May | 18-21 | Mechelen | Belgium | Dataharvest, the European Investigative Journalism Conference |
| May | 25 - 27 | Lviv | Ukraine | Lviv Media Forum on digital revolution in media |
| June | 3-4 | Toronto | Canada | Local news and its future |
| June | 7-9 | Durban | South Africa | World News Media Congress |
| 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 |
| July | 5-7 | Madrid | Spain | Global Fact-Checking Summit |
| July | 6-7 | Dublin | Ireland | European Data and Computational Journalism Conference |
| 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 |
| October | 4-5 | New York | USA | Future of Storytelling Summit |
| October | 13-14 | Evanston | USA | Computer + Journalism Symposium |
Project funding:
| Deadline | Name | Organization | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| May | GIJC 17 Fellowship | GIJN | Travel stipend for the GIJC Conference in Johannesburg |
| June | Collaborative journalism grant | Center for Cooperative Media | Grants for journalism collaborations |
| July | Next Journalism Prize | 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 |
