H/H Brighton is back, and it's online
Hello, hacks and hackers! The Hacks/Hackers Brighton group is rebooting with a virtual meetup this Tuesday. Join in online to talk about audience engagement and monetizing online content.
Reminder that applications are still open for COVID-19 coverage grants from the Pulitzer Center and WikiCred grants for Wikipedia credibility solutions.
Updated events:
- Global Media Forum 2020 has been canceled
Worth a read:
- GIJN created a landing page for all its articles related to COVID-19 coverage, including its main guide translated into 11 different languages (GIJN)
- The New York Times released its COVID-19 dataset for each US county on its GitHub account for journalists to use, and plans on keeping it updated (NYT)
- One of the first data vizes to appear in a US newspaper was a line chart chronicling the rise and fall of deaths from cholera in The New York Daily Tribune 171 years ago (ProPublica)
Job openings:
- Anywhere: Axios, Data Viz Freelancers
- UK: Dow Jones, Product Management Summer Intern
- US: ACLU, Digital Strategist
- US: Forbes, Product Designer
- US: The Ringer, Fact-Checker
- US: Science Finder, Engagement Producer
Upcoming events:
- April 23-26, Online, Online, International Symposium on Online Journalism
- May 14-15, Online, Online, Collaborative Journalism Summit
- June 2-4, Online, Online, Data + Narrative Workshop
- June 2-5, Seoul, South Korea, International Anti-Corruption Conference
- June 24-27, Oslo, Norway, Global Fact 7
- June 25-28, Detroit, US, Allied Media Conference
- July 4, Düsseldorf, Germany, JournoCon
- July 8-12, Washington DC, US, NABJxNAHJ Conference
- July 16-17, Minneapolis, US, SRCCON
- July 19-August 1, Washington DC, US, AAJA Conference
- August 27-30, National Harbor, US, IRE Conference
- September 10-12, Washington DC, US, Excellence in Journalism Conference
- September 10-13, Chicago, US, The Association of LGBTQ journalists (NLGA)
- September 13-16, Phoenix, US, National Native Media Conference
- September 21-25, Geneva, Switzerland, AI for Good Summit
- September 30-October 3, Atlanta, US, Online News Association Conference
- November 5-8, Mechelen, Belgium, EIJC & Dataharvest
- December 4-6, Austin, US, Journalism & Women Symposium
- TBA, TBA, Boston, US, Computation + Journalism Symposium
- TBA, TBA, DC, US, SND Conference
- TBA, TBA, Atlanta, US, NewsQ Hackathon
Other opportunities:
- March 30, Google News Initiative fellowship for Europeans
- April 3-5, Information Ethics Roundtable in Boston
- June 15, Data journalism award on Amazon Forest coverage
- Rolling deadline, ECFJ grants for stories on elections, AI, disinformation, etc.
- Rolling deadline, Solutions Journalism Network Freelance Fund
- Rolling deadline, Ukraine Media Development Fund
- Rolling deadline, Contest fees for submitting solutions stories
