H/H projects fight misinformation with Knight prototype grants
Greetings, hacks and hackers. The Knight Foundation announced the winners of its misinformation prototype grants here at the IRE conference, and several Hacks/Hackers projects were among the awardees:
Check out some of their blog posts on the MisinfoCon site. And if you missed this round of grants, ICFJ has extended the deadline for its Truthbuzz initiative for another couple weeks:
The week ahead:
- London is holding its June meetup
- IRE is holding its regular weekly lab
- Zurich is talking storytelling with Blick
- Brisbane is meeting at the offices of the ABC
- Austin is discussing new publishing platforms
Worth a read:
- Fake news, funding and innovation will be major themes at this year's Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires Media Party (Knight Center)
- Chicas Poderosas is launching an incubator for entrepreneurial women journalists (Knight Center)
- Apple is releasing a new analytics tool for podcasts that could dramatically affect how they're marketed and shared (Poynter)
Job openings:
| Location | Employer | Opening |
|---|---|---|
| Hong Kong | South China Morning Post | Data engineer |
| Kenya or South Africa | The Conversation | Audience developement manager |
| US | St. Louis Post Dispatch | Data reporter |
| US | Technical.ly | Prat-time reporter |
| US | Kansas City Business Journal | Data reporter |
| US | University of Maryland | News interaction design instructor |
| US | Center for Responsive Politics | Director of digital strategy |
Upcoming events:
| Month | Day | City | Country | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June | 29 | Hamburg | Germany | News Impact Summit on truth, tech & community |
| June | 29-30 | Nairobi | Kenya | Data for Development in Africa conference |
| July | 5-7 | Madrid | Spain | Global Fact-Checking Summit |
| July | 6-7 | Dublin | Ireland | European Data and Computational Journalism Conference |
| July | 6-7 | Warsaw | Poland | 360/OS open source confernce |
| July | 13-15 | Lima | Peru | Latin American Annual Meeting of Entrepreneurial and Innovative Journalism |
| July | 19-21 | New York | USA | textAV working group on audio and video |
| 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 |
| September | 14-16 | Miami | USA | Digital Humanities + Data Journalism Symposium |
| 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" |
| June | Local news innovation grants | Lenfest Institute | Grants for experimenting, seeding and amplifying innovative news ventures |
| June | Collaborative journalism grant | Center for Cooperative Media | Grants for journalism collaborations |
| June | TruthBuzz | ICFJ | Cash prize for creative solutions to fact-checking |
| July | Next Journalism Award | 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 |
