Remember, remember eight events for November
Hi, hacks and hackers! We're setting up forwarded email accounts for hackshackers.com. So if you're a local organizer:
Would you like an email address for your group, like hongkong@hackshackers.com? Hit reply on this email if you would like to set that up.
The week ahead:
- Seattle is discussing voice user interfaces
- IRE is holdings its regular open lab
- Mendoza is hosting an open government hackathon
Worth a read:
- Data journalism hackathons, to some extent, are catching on in Moscow and St. Petersburg (GIJN)
- You can now access the New York Times on the dark web (NYT)
- ProPublica shared its practices on audience engagement and crowdsourcing (GIJN)
Job openings:
Location | Employer | Opening |
---|---|---|
China | Associated Press | Video journalist |
Czech Republic | Radio Free Europe | Data journalist |
India | Times Internet | Editor |
UK | BBC | Data journalist |
UK | The Sun | Tech and science reporter |
UK | Telegraph | Digital news producer |
US | APM Reports | Data reporter |
US | NYTimes | Interactive news developer |
US | University of Maryland | Computational journalism professor |
US | Seattle Times | Producer |
US | UT Austin | Data journalism lecturer |
US | Palm Beach Post | Data reporting intern |
US | Nieman Foundation | Nieman fellowships |
US | The Trace | Newsroom operations manager |
US | The Sun | SEO editor |
US | Hearst Magazines | Deputy digital editor |
US | Capitol Broadcasting Company | New media enterprise editor |
Upcoming events:
Month | Day | City | Country | Event |
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November | 5-8 | Chicago | USA | Science of Innovation Summit for Journalists |
November | 9-11 | New York | USA | Catalyst media entrepreneurship program |
November | 11-13 | Berlin | Germany | OpenCon for open access to education |
November | 15-17 | Tbilisi | Georgia | DataFest Tbilisi 2017 |
November | 16-19 | Johannesburg | South Africa | Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC) |
November | 23-24 | Sao Paolo | Brazil | Symposium on Journalism on Multiplatform Environments |
November | 23-25 | Cape Town | South Africa | Media Indaba Africa |
November | 24-26 | Tunis | Tunisia | New media conference |
December | 1-3 | Panama City | Panama | Futuro de Periodismo regional conference |
December | 7-8 | Philadelphia | USA | OpenNews' SRCCON:WORK |
December | 9 | Toronto | Canada | Data Driven symposium |
Project funding:
Deadline | Fund |
---|---|
Rolling | MisinfoCon micro-grant |
Rolling | Solutions Journalism Network Freelance Fund |
November | Bournemouth University New Media Writing Prize |
November | MIT Enterprise Forum Pan Arab prizes |