How to keep in touch while staying at home
Hello, hacks and hackers! We hope everyone is staying safe. Some local Hacks/Hackers groups have started holding meetups online. If you're thinking about doing the same, keep these tips in mind:
- Get a paid account for more security. Marcela Kunova, who organized the recent virtual meetup for H/H Brighton, said free accounts can leave you too vulnerable to hackers and "Zoom bombers."
- Poll your community to see which platform to use. Christine Gicheru, who ran the recent meetup online for H/H Lagos, said Google Hangouts worked the best for their audience.
- Don't share the URL publicly. Connie Moon Sehat, who manages virtual meetings for the Credibility Coalition, suggested giving attendees a link or access code via email.
If you need the software to do it, Hacks/Hackers has a paid Zoom account we may be able to make available. If you are a group organizer, please get in touch.
Updated events:
- International Anti-Corruption Conference has been postponed; new dates have not been announced
- Global Fact 7 has been moved online
- Allied Media Conference has been moved online
Worth a read:
- The Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma is hosting a weekly webinar series on "Reporting and COVID-19" through April 30, but you can find past weeks’ content on their site here (Dart Center)
- With media events and conferences being canceled globally indefinitely, what does this mean for the future of large in-person conferences after COVID-19? (NiemanLab)
- Poynter talked to editors from local, regional and national U.S. news outlets around the country learn about how their newsroom is tackling COVID-19 coverage (Poynter)
Job openings:
- Anywhere: Atlas Obscura, Freelance Reporters
- Anywhere: Axios, Data Viz Freelancers
- Anywhere: Huffington Post, Freelance Reporters
- Americas: Al Jazeera, Freelance COVID-19 Reporters
- China: ZDF, Videographer
- US: Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, Data Viz Specialist
- US: Open Democracy, Investigative Journalist
- US: Sportico, Data Journalist
- US: Washington Post, Technical Product Manager
Upcoming events:
- April 23-26, Online International Symposium on Online Journalism
- May 14-15, Online, Collaborative Journalism Summit
- June 2-4, Online, Data + Narrative Workshop
- June 24-27, Online, Global Fact 7
- June 25-28, Online, Allied Media Conference
- July 4, Düsseldorf, Germany, JournoCon
- July 8-12, Washington DC, US, NABJxNAHJ Conference
- July 16-17, Minneapolis, US, SRCCON
- July 19-Aug 1, Washington DC, US, AAJA Conference
- Aug 27-30, National Harbor, US, IRE Conference
- Sep 10-12, Washington DC, US, Excellence in Journalism Conference
- Sep 10-13, Chicago, US, The Association of LGBTQ journalists (NLGA)
- Sep 13-16, Phoenix, US, National Native Media Conference
- Sep 21-25, Geneva, Switzerland, AI for Good Summit
- Sep 30-October 3, Atlanta, US, Online News Association Conference
- Nov 5-8, Mechelen, Belgium, EIJC & Dataharvest
- Dec 4-6, Austin, US, Journalism & Women Symposium
- TBA, Boston, US, Computation + Journalism Symposium
- TBA, Washington DC, US, SND Conference
- TBA, Atlanta, US, NewsQ Hackathon
- TBA, Seoul, South Korea, International Anti-Corruption Conference
Other opportunities:
- April 30, Africa-China reporting grant for COVID-19 coverage
- June 15, Data journalism award on Amazon Forest coverage
- Rolling deadline, National Geographic grants to cover COVID-19
- Rolling deadline, FIJ grant for Americans to cover COVID-19
- Rolling deadline, Women journalists can apply for relief grant from COVID-19 struggles
- 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
