Covering the coronavirus outbreak
Hello, hacks and hackers! Coronavirus has reached the journalism world, and hacks and hackers around the world are getting ready. Splice, SXSW and the International Journalism Festival have been canceled.
The events listed in this newsletter will be updated with any changes. Read below for tips and techniques for covering your community.
Worth a read:
- The International Fact-Checking Network is compiling fact-checks on the coronavirus. You can subscribe to the reports from all kinds of languages around the world on their Twitter list (ICFN)
- Coronavirus-related products are "spreading quickly," as Nieman Lab put it, and there are now many web apps, podcasts, newsletters and other news products to learn from (Nieman Lab)
- Twitter, a very popular social media network for journalists and journalism, is debuting its own version of "stories" found on Snapchat and Instagram (TechCrunch)
Job openings:
| Location | Employer | Opening |
|---|---|---|
| Anywhere | ICIJ | Development manager |
| Anywhere | INN | Index director |
| Hong Kong | SCMP | Production editor |
| Japan | WSJ | Tech reporter |
| UK | Reuters | Digital producer |
| US | Washington Post | AI and algorithms reporter |
| US | Quartz | Creative production producer |
| US | Reveal | Digital designer |
| US | Texas Tribune | Project manager |
| US | Grist | Director of innovation |
Upcoming events:
| Month | Day | City | Country | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March | 18-20 | Johannesburg | South Africa | JamFest |
| March | 20-21 | Boston | US | Computation + Journalism Symposium |
| March | 20-22 | Boston | US | Power of Narrative |
| March | 27-28 | Atlanta | US | NewsQ Hackathon |
| April | 3 | Bloomington | US | Midwest Journalism Conference |
| April | 5-6 | DC | US | Society for News Design Conference |
| April | 20-23 | London | UK | O’Reilly Strata Data & AI Conference |
| April | 23 | Austin | US | Code Before the Vote Hackathon |
| April | 24-25 | Austin | US | International Symposium on Online Journalism |
| May | 4-8 | Geneva | Switzerland | AI For Good Summit |
| May | 14-15 | Charlotte | US | Collaborative Journalism Summit |
| May | 14-17 | Mechelen | Belgium | EIJC & Dataharvest |
| May | 29-31 | Montreal | Canada | Canadian Associations of Journalists Conference |
Other opportunities:
| Deadline | Fund |
|---|---|
| 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 |
