Dream jobs for #newsnerds
Greetings, hacks and hackers! We have a trifecta of dream jobs for news nerds this week: you could write stories for NiemanLab, help the John S. Knight Fellowship program engage its audience, or even have a title like Future of Journalism Director at the Knight Foundation.
The upcoming month provides a small break in conference season, but then we're right back into it with six - yes, six - Hacks/Hackers-related events in September. Not least among them, the famous HHBA Media Party!
The week ahead:
- Boston is hosting lightning talks
- IRE is holding its regular open lab
- Johannesburg is inviting members to JAMLAB
- Kuala Lumpur is telling stories with maps
Worth a read:
- DocumentCloud, a Knight News Challenge grant winner, is setting forth as an independent nonprofit and will ask heavy users to start paying for the service (NiemanLab)
- A Zimbabwean media startup has branched out from financial news in its coverage, which it pubblishes on WhatsApp (Poynter)
- GIJN published some tips on starting a fact-checking initiative (GIJN)
Job openings:
| Location | Employer | Opening |
|---|---|---|
| UK | Telegraph | Picture researcher |
| UK | NBC | Homepage editor |
| US | Chalkbeat | Digital producer |
| US | Texas Tribune | Interactive designer |
| US | Hearst Digital Media | Social strategy manager |
| US | NiemanLab | Staff writer |
| US | Stars and Stripes | Graphics editor |
| US | John S. Knight Fellowships Program | Engagement editor |
| US | Arizona State University | Professor of media innovation |
| US | Gannett | Digital planning editor |
| US | McClatchy | Audience editors |
| US | NYTimes | Deputy tech editor |
| US | WSJ | Digital news editor |
| US | National Archives | Front-end developer |
| US | Dow Jones | UX lead |
| US | Washington Post | Full-stack developer |
| US | Knight Foundation | Director of Future of Journalism |
Upcoming events:
| Month | Day | City | Country | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 11-15 | Sao Paolo | Brazil | Social Media Week |
| September | 12-16 | Kampala | Uganda | DATA4CHAN.GE 2017 |
| September | 13-15 | Buenos Aires | Argentina | Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires Media Party |
| September | 13-17 | TBD | Moldova | Open Data Media Lab |
| September | 14-16 | Miami | USA | Digital Humanities + Data Journalism Symposium |
| September | 25-29 | Porto Alegre | Brazil | SET Universitário communications conference |
| October | 4-5 | New York | USA | Future of Storytelling Summit |
| October | 5-7 | DC | USA | Online News Association ONA Conference |
| October | 13-14 | Evanston | USA | Computer + Journalism Symposium |
| November | 5-8 | Chicago | USA | Science of Innovation Summit for Journalists |
| November | 11-13 | Berlin | Germany | OpenCon for open access to education |
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" |
| July | Travel fellowships | Tony Elumelu Foundation | Travel stipends for journalism entrepreneurs to attend the TEF Entrepreneurship Forum in Lagos |
| September | INN Days reimbursement | INN | Travel stipends for INN member newsrooms traveling to INN Days in Phoenix |
| September | Tech in Media 2017 | Russian Venture Company | Cash prizes for innovative journalism in Russia |
| September | Visiting fellowships | Nieman Foundation | Fellowhips lasting up to six weeks to research a project designed to advance journalism |
| October | Golden Stylus | Association of Innovative Regions of Russia | Cash prizes for innovative journalism projects that had an impact on society |
