Events in Dublin, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam
They're back, hacks and hackers! H/H Dublin is meeting up this week to talk about innovating media orgs to be more privacy-conscious and reader-supported.
Nairobi and Dar es Salaam are holding events as well.
The week ahead:
- Dublin is promoting privacy
- Nairobi is telling stories with data
- Dar es Salaam is discussing digital content strategy
Worth a read:
- Threats to freedom of the press is proven to negatively impact the nation’s economy, research suggests. This includes acts like jailing journalists and censoring information.
- Speaking of press freedom: Reporters sans Frontières, also known as Reporters Without Borders, released their 2021 World Press Freedom Index ranking 180 countries. The group found that journalism was blocked in some way in 73% of countries.
- Once you’ve learned SQL, it can be difficult to find the best program to use it with. This short guide gives an introduction tutorial to using PostgreSQL - one of the more popular relational database management systems.
Job postings:
- Anywhere - Data journalism teaching roles, Columbia University
- Anywhere - Visual Editor, CNN As Equals
- Anywhere - Webmaster, GIJN
- Anywhere - Senior Editor, Kosovo 2.0
- Anywhere - Cybercrime Editor, OCCRP
- Anywhere - Senior Systems Administrator, OCCRP
- Anywhere - Editorial Managing Director, The Pudding
- Belgium - Project Coordinator, Journalismfund.eu
- Kenya - Senior Journalist Team Manager, BBC Africa
- UK - Environment Reporter, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
- UK - Data Advisor, Global Witness
- US - News Automation Content Engineer, Bloomberg
- US - Editor and Content Officer, Earth Journalism Network
- US - Senior Software Engineer, Local News Lab at Columbia University
- US - UX Designer, McClatchy
- US - Multiple audience, data, engineering roles, NYT’s Wirecutter
- US - News Analytics Editor, Washington Post
Upcoming events:
- April 26-30, Online, International Symposium on Online Journalism
- May 1-3, Namibia, World Press Freedom Day Conference
- May 18-21, France, Assises Internationales du Journalisme de Tours
- June 7-11, Online, RightsCon
- June 14-15, Germany, Global Media Forum
- June 14-18, Online, Investigative Reporters & Editors Conference
- August 11-13, Online, SRCCON
- August 26-28, Ukraine, Lviv Media Forum
- November 3-5, Online, GIJN Conference
Other opportunities:
- April 25, European journalists can apply for Google News Initiative fellowship
- Rolling deadline, Funding from Google to fact-check vaccine misinformation
- Rolling deadline, Funding to cover Covid in Black Sea countries
- Rolling deadline, FIJ grant for Americans to cover COVID-19
- Rolling deadline, IWMF relief grant for COVID-19 struggles
- Rolling deadline, Eyebeam grants for artistic contributions to journalism
