International Fact Checking Day and April Fools' Day
Happy April Fool's Day, hacks and hackers! Don't believe anything on the Internet - at least, more than usual. And immediately afterward, you can come back down to earth with International Fact-Checking Day.
Don't miss the Hacks/Hackers open planning call coming up next Wednesday:
The week ahead:
- Kuala Lumpur is discussing voting
- New York is installing security tools
- Rosario is making plans for 2018
Worth a read:
- Mozilla released a Facebook container, designed to keep Facebook and all its data collecting walled away from your other web use (Mozilla)
- Google rolled out their new Google News Initiative, which comprises a platform for newsroom subscriptions, media literacy curricula and more (NiemanLab)
- On the subject of subscriptions, the American Press Institute released a study on the most successful paths for leading casual consumers to paying ones (API)
Job openings:
| Location | Employer | Opening |
|---|---|---|
| US | Atlanta Magazine | Digital manager |
| US | Axios | Product designer |
| US | Newsday | Data journalist |
| US | Chalkbeat | Director of product |
| US | NYTimes | News app developer |
| US | Bloomberg | Data research analyst |
| US | NPR | News apps developer |
| US | McClatchy | Full stack developer |
| US | Politico | Developer |
| US | Politico | Front-end designer |
| US | VTDigger | Developer |
| US | NiemanLab | Reporter |
| US | Quartz | Things reporter |
| US | USAToday | Data teams editor |
| US | USAToday | Data journalist |
Upcoming events:
| Month | Day | City | Country | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April | 10-11 | Copenhagen | Denmark | Digital Media Europe conference |
| April | 10-13 | Kobe | Japan | Pacific Visualization Symposium |
| April | 11-15 | Perugia | Italy | International Journalism Conference |
| April | 13-14 | Austin | US | ISOJ International Symposium on Online Journalism |
| April | 19-22 | Montreal | Canada | The International Conference on Narrative |
| April | 21 | Montreal | Canada | Data Visualization on Mobile Devices workshop |
| April | 24-25 | Philadelphia | US | Lenfest Learning Seminar unconference |
| May | 3-4 | Accra | Ghana | UNESCO World Press Freedom Day |
| May | 10-11 | Montclair | US | Collaborative Journalism Summit |
| May | 16-18 | Toronto | Canada | RightsCon journalism security conference |
| May | 24-27 | Mechelen | Belgium | Dataharvest European investigative journalism symposium |
| May | 30-1 | Oakland | US | Code for America summit |
| June | 4-5 | New York | US | Ops conference on digital media revenue |
| June | 14-17 | Orlando | US | Investigative Reporters and Editors conference |
Project funding:
| Deadline | Fund |
|---|---|
| Rolling | MisinfoCon micro-grants |
| Rolling | Solutions Journalism Network Freelance Fund |
| Rolling | Ukraine Media Development Fund |
| April | Open Society Initiative for West Africa grants |
| April | Matter Cohort for media entrepreneurs |
