Hacks/Hackers DC gets a reboot
Welcome back, hacks and hackers! The University of Florida’s Brechner Center for Freedom of Information is giving away $3,000 prizes to pieces of journalism work published in 2019 that highlights secrecy in government or utilizes public records. The submission deadline is February 28.
Also, Hacks/Hackers DC is holding a little get-together next week to discuss future plans for the group. If you're in DC, don't miss it!
Happening this week:
- Abuja, Benin and Lagos are looking at creative visualization
Worth a read:
- Google’s Dataset Search tool added a few new features like being able to filter by data type, see maps for geographic data and see whether the dataset is free from its source or not (Google)
- Pandas’ new 1.0 release will require Python 3.6.1 or higher to run and comes with several updates such as the addition of a universal missing data-type value (Infoworld)
- Journalism’s been going thru a lot of transformation as an industry in the U.S. the past few years and is only expected to change more, so NiemanLab’s Newsonomics’ Ken Doctor outlined 20 predictions for the news business in the 2020s (NiemanLab)
Job openings:
| Location | Employer | Opening |
|---|---|---|
| Anywhere | GIJN | Resource Center Director |
| China | South China Morning Post | Front-End Web Developer |
| Kenya | Quartz Africa | East Africa Correspondent |
| Singapore | Reuters | Data Viz Developer |
| South Africa | Quartz Africa | South Africa Correspondent |
| UK | IDG | Online Editor |
| US | Center for Public Integrity | Data Journalism Fellow |
| US | Denver Business Journal | Data Reporter |
| US | LNP Media Group | Digital Newsroom Team Leader |
| US | Michigan Radio | Data Reporter |
| US | Protect Democracy | DevOps Engineer |
| US | WABC-TV | Data Journalist |
Upcoming events:
| Month | Day | City | Country | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February | 18-20 | Chiang Mai | Thailand | Splice Asian Media Conference |
| February | 22 | Washington, DC | US | MisinfoCon @ NASEM |
| February | 25-26 | London | UK | DataViz Live |
| March | 5-8 | New Orleans | US | NICAR Conference |
| March | 20-21 | Boston | US | Computation + Journalism Symposium |
| March | 20-22 | Boston | US | Power of Narrative |
| April | 1-5 | Perugia | Italy | International Journalism Conference |
| May | 4-8 | Geneva | Switzerland | AI For Good Summit |
| May | 14-17 | Mechelen | Belgium | EIJC & Dataharvest |
| June | 2-5 | Seoul | South Korea | International Anti-Corruption Conference |
| June | 9-12 | Heredia | Costa Rica | RightsCon |
| June | 18-21 | National Harbor | US | IRE Conference |
| June | 24-27 | Oslo | Norway | Global Fact 7 |
Other opportunities:
| Deadline | Fund |
|---|---|
| January 27 | OpenNews journalism conference scholarship |
| January 31 | Grad school scholarship for journalists in Latin America |
| February 3 | Sigma Data Journalism Awards |
| February 28 | $3,000 prize for freedom of information reporting |
| 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 |
