Fellowships, funds and foundations for journalism
Greetings, hacks and hackers! We have more updates from our MisinfoCon project - we're offering small $1,000 micro grants for projects that fight misinformation. Send in your ideas!
Besides that, we've got exciting new funding opportunities from ICFJ, the Solutions Journalism Network, and other orgs that support media innovation. Skip to the bottom for more :point_down:
The week ahead:
- Venice is holding a meetup on Growth Hacking
- IRE in Missouri is holding its weekly open lab
Worth a read:
- The Pudding, a blog on graphics, published a guide to what the author calls "scrollytelling" (The Pudding)
- The New York Times describes keeping up with the times in a profile of Story[X], its replacement for the NYT R&D Lab (NiemanLab)
- Paper newspaper circulation has grown steadily in India while it has declined in other countries, and local reporting is on of the reasons why (CNN)
Job openings:
| Country | Employer | Opening |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | BuzzFeed | Video producer/editor |
| Multiple | ICIJ | Connected data fellow |
| Multiple | Google Project Shield | Regional technical evangelist |
| Hong Kong | South China Morning Post | Infographic designer |
| South Africa | WITS University | Journalism lecturer |
| UK | Express | Technology reporter |
| USA | Mississippi Today | Database manager |
| USA | Open Society Foundations | Communications officer |
| USA | Reuters | Website editor |
Upcoming events:
| Month | Day | City | Country | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May | 15-20 | San Salvador | El Salvador | Forum for Central American Journalism |
| May | 18-20 | Hamburg | Germany | International Press Institute World Congress on media freedom in the digital age |
| May | 18-21 | Mechelen | Belgium | Dataharvest, the European Investigative Journalism Conference |
| May | 23-25 | Lima | Peru | Exquisite Corpses, a workshop on journalism projets |
| May | 25 - 27 | Lviv | Ukraine | Lviv Media Forum on digital revolution in media |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | GIJC 17 Fellowship | GIJN | Travel stipend for the GIJC Conference in Johannesburg |
| 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-checking |
| 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 |
