Hire Open News for your team next year
Hello, hacks and hackers! SRCCON is over for the year, but the OpenNews team is available for hire for next year.
The group can help design event experiences, facilitate gatherings, coach on community design, and other inclusive practices for journalism and technology.
Worth a read:
- If you or any journalists you know are currently in Afghanistan, you can find a list of resources here from GIJN on how to safely evacuate.
- Once you’ve learned the basics of data analysis in Python, it’s worth learning how to code more cleanly and efficiently so your scripts can run faster and stand the test of time.
- Dynamic data visualizations that take into account variation and uncertainty are key to helping audiences grasp the effects of climate change on the world accurately.
Jobs:
- Anywhere - Web Design Manager, EdSource
- Anywhere - Multiple data/engineering roles, Felt
- Anywhere - Project Manager, News Revenue Hub
- Africa - Data Analyst, Code for Africa
- UK - Africa Eye Executive Producer, BBC
- US - Data Journalist, Barron’s
- US - Data and Graphics Reporter, Chalkbeat
- US - Senior Product Manager, CNN
- US - Head of Audience Development, The Guardian
- US - Audience Engagement Editor, Lumina Foundation
- US - Visual Journalist - Developer, McClatchy
- US - Visual Journalist - Designer, McClatchy
- US - Data Visual Reporter, The News Journal
- US - Audience Editor, MinnPost
- US - Director of Investigative Reporting, Temple University
- US - Data Visuals Reporter, The 19th
Upcoming events:
- Aug 24-28, Online, AAJA Conference
- Aug 26-28, Ukraine, Lviv Media Forum
- Sep 28-30, Taiwan, World News Media Congress 2021
- Sep 29 - Oct 2, France, Assises Internationales du Journalisme de Tours
- Oct 3-5, Africa/Online, African Investigative Journalism Conference
- Oct 14-15, Online, ONA Insights
- Nov 1-5, Online, GIJN Conference
- Nov 3-4, Online, News Philanthropy Summit
Other opportunities:
- Rolling deadline, Pitch freelance stories in US news deserts to Parachute
- Rolling deadline, Funding from Google to fact-check vaccine misinformation
- Rolling deadline, Funding to cover Covid in Black Sea countries
- Rolling deadline, IWMF relief grant for COVID-19 struggles
- Rolling deadline, Eyebeam grants for artistic contributions to journalism
