Conference season takes off
It's nearly June, hacks and hackers! School is out and conference season is in. This month, we've got eight events supporting media innovation, ranging from Canada to South Africa to Austria. Where will you be this summer? (Or winter, for those of you in the south.)
The week ahead:
- Birmingham is holding an election hack day
- London is holding its May meetup
- Buenos Aires is hosting a security workshop
- IRE is holding its regular weekly lab
Worth a read:
- Facebook Instant Articles have been less than successful, but they're now incorporating Google AMP (TechCrunch)
- NPR is experimenting with distributing its programming via smartwatch, Amazon Echo, refrigerator screens and more (NiemanLab)
- The American Press Institut released a study that said people generally don't trust the media - except the outlets they listen to (API)
Job openings:
| Country | Employer | Opening |
|---|---|---|
| Anywhere | Axios | Systems architect |
| UK | BBC | Digital innovation journalist |
| UK | CNN | Motion graphics intern |
| USA | Center for Public Integrity | Data reporter for state politics |
| USA | Seattle Times | Graphics intern |
| USA | Chautauquan Daily | News design intern |
| USA | New York Times | Front-end engineer |
| USA | INN | Amplify News Project director |
| USA | Washington Post | Graphics editor |
| USA | Dow Jones | Editorial design director |
| USA | Reveal | Collaborations manager |
| USA | First Look Media | Front-end engineer |
| USA | Conde Nast | Data viz engineer |
Upcoming events:
| Month | Day | City | Country | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| July | 13-15 | Lima | Peru | Latin American Annual Meeting of Entrepreneurial and Innovative Journalism |
| 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 |
| September | 14-16 | Miami | USA | Digital Humanities + Data Journalism Symposium |
| October | 4-5 | New York | USA | Future of Storytelling Summit |
| October | 13-14 | Evanston | USA | Computer + Journalism Symposium |
Project funding:
| Deadline | Name | Organization | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rolling | MisinfoCon micro-grant | MisinfoCon | Small grants for experimental projects that fight misinformation |
| Rolling | Freelance Fund | Solutions Journalism Network | Small travel stipends for reporters working on "solutions journalism" |
| May | MENA Mentoring Center | IJNet Arabic | Mentorship for Arabic-language media entrepreneurs |
| June | Online Journalism Awards | Online Journalism Association | Prize money for innovative and digital journalism projects |
| June | Collaborative journalism grant | Center for Cooperative Media | Grants for journalism collaborations |
| June | Social Innovation Fellowship | Chicago Ideas Week | Funding and networking for entrepreneurs tackling social challenges |
| June | TruthBuzz | ICFJ | Cash prize for creative solutions to fact-checkin |
| 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 |
