In honor of Siyabonga Africa
Welcome, hacks and hackers. We would like to mourn the passing of Siyabonga Africa, a co-founder of the Hacks/Hackers Johannesburg group and a leader in the Hacks/Hackers Africa community.
Siya was active in Hacks/Hackers for almost 10 years, while advocating for news innovation as a leader at Code for Africa and the South Africa Media Innovation Program. He will be enormously missed.
Worth a read:
- This GIJN guide on personal archiving includes tips for how to archive source files during an investigation, and includes resources for preserving articles, videos and podcasts.
- In an effort to provide more transparency behind its algorithms, Google introduced an “About this result” panel for most results to explain how the result is relevant to your search.
- The blog Dirty Data Science has tutorials for how to predict missing values and work with non-normalized strings when doing machine-learning tasks in Python.
Jobs:
- Anywhere - Deputy Editor, The Fuller Project
- UK - Head of UX Architecture, Dow Jones
- UK - Data Journalist, GlobalData
- UK - Data Journalist, Tech Monitor
- UK - SEO Analyst, The Telegraph
- US - Innovative Story Formats Editor, Barron’s
- US - Data Reporter, THE CITY
- US - Data Visual Reporter, Delaware News Journal
- US - Web Design Manager, EdSource
- US - Data Reporter, Houston Chronicle
- US - Social Media Editor/Producer, ICIJ
- US - News Graphics Developer, Industry Dive
- US - Data & Graphics Journalist, LA Times
- US - Graphics Editor, Law360
- US - Analytics Editor, McClatchy
- US - Data Producer, McClatchy
- US - Data Visual Journalist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- US - Associate Data Editor, The Trace
- US - Visual Storytelling Editor, WSJ
Upcoming events:
- Aug 11-13, Online, SRCCON
- Aug 18-21, Online, NABJ Conference
- 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
- Nov 1-5, Online, GIJN Conference
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
