Sign up for INN Days
Hello, hacks and hackers! The Institute for Nonprofit News has announced their free, virtual INN Days conference is happening June 9th and 10th this year to talk about the future of nonprofit journalism.
They also just released their first-ever impact report that shows how within 10 years, independent, nonprofit newsrooms will produce a significant share of the civic news that Americans consume.
Worth a read:
- Quote This Woman+ is a South African nonprofit that aggregates a database of women and LGBTQIA identifying source experts in topics ranging from vaccines to tech to social justice in an effort to increase the diversity in sources.
- US states love to display their public data in wildly different formats. This blogpost looks at how to more efficiently automate extraction for datasets from six different states.
- Incorporating data into radio journalism can be a daunting task, so GIJN compiled tips and tools to make it easier to translate numbers into spoken words.
Jobs:
- Anywhere - Lead Developer, DocumentCloud
- Anywhere - Associate Editor, Global Voices
- Anywhere - Russian Editor, GIJN
- Anywhere - Senior Full Stack Developer, OCCRP
- Latin America - Researcher, OCCRP
- US - Deputy Director, Local News Transformation, American Press Institute
- US - Engagement Editor, The Chronicle of Higher Education
- US - Web Content Coordinator, Dow Jones
- US - Data Visualization Reporter, Financial Times
- US - News Product Intern, Gannett/USA TODAY
- US - Research Analyst, Good Jobs First
- US - Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer, Local News Lab
- US - Product Designer, Local News Lab
- US - Director of Communications, Marshall Project
- US - Collaborations Editor, MuckRock
- US - Data Journalist, MuckRock
- US - Data Reporter/Developer, Philadelphia Inquirer
- US - Sr. Communities/Engagement Editor, Philadelphia Inquirer
- US - Data Specialist, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
- US - Graphics Reporter, Seattle Times
- US - Python/Django Software Engineer, Texas Tribune
- US - Taxonomy Manager, Washington Post
- US - Sr. Information Architect, WSJ
- US - SEO Editor, WSJ
Upcoming events:
- June 7-11, Online, RightsCon
- June 9-10, Online, INN Days
- June 14-15, Germany/Online, Global Media Forum
- June 14-18, Online, Investigative Reporters & Editors Conference
- Aug 11-13, Online, SRCCON
- Aug 26-28, Ukraine, Lviv Media Forum
- Sep 29 - Oct 2, France, Assises Internationales du Journalisme de Tours
- Nov 3-5, 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
