HHBA Media Party calls for proposals
Happy Sunday, hacks and hackers. If you've been enjoying our suggested reading from NiemanLab every week, you might want to apply to their Knight Visiting Fellowships at the Nieman Foundation at Harvard:
Also open this week: cash prizes for innovative journalism in Russia and travel stipends to an entrepreneurship conference in Nigeria. Plus, the Hacks/Hackers Media Party has opened its call for proposals.
The week ahead:
- Rio de Janeiro is featuring a speaker from Stanford
- IRE is holding its regular open lab
Worth a read:
- Calling Bullshit, a university course featured on the MisinfoCon website, shared its syllabus with the public (Calling Bullshit)
- A teenage journalist spotted the cell phone number of the U.S. Secretary of Defense in a photo. He texted him and scored an interview for his school newspaper (MIHS Islander)
- Two-thirds of Americans think the national news media has a negative effect on the country, according to the latest Pew Research Center survey (Poynter)
Job openings:
| Location | Employer | Opening |
|---|---|---|
| Anywhere | The Marshall Project | Senior investigative reporter |
| Hong Kong | Korean Entertainment News | Digital editor |
| Nigeria | Nigeria Investigates | Multimedia journalists |
| UK | Conde Nast | Motion graphics designer |
| US | Reuters | Digital producer |
| US | Center for Public Integrity | Audience engagement editor |
| US | Cleveland | Computer-assisted projects editor |
| US | WSJ | Digital content strategy editor |
| US | LA Times | News designer |
| US | KXAN | Digital producer |
| US | NPR | Development intern |
| US | Vox | VP of Design |
Upcoming events:
| Month | Day | City | Country | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 11-15 | Sao Paolo | Brazil | Social Media Week |
| September | 13-15 | Buenos Aires | Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires Media Party | |
| 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" |
| 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 |
| July | Travel fellowships | Tony Elumelu Foundation | Travel stipends for journalism entrepreneurs to attend the TEF Entrepreneurship Forum in Lagos |
| September | INN Days reimbursement | INN | Travel stipends for INN member newsrooms traveling to INN Days in Phoenix |
| September | Tech in Media 2017 | Russian Venture Company | Cash prizes for innovative journalism in Russia |
| September | Visiting fellowships | Nieman Foundation | Fellowhips lasting up to six weeks to research a project designed to advance journalism |
