Journalism jobs and grants around the globe

Welcome back from MozFest and MisinfoCon, hacks and hackers! A lot of job postings went up this week: scroll down to find links to jobs in Singapore, Qatar, Russia, the UK and US.

There are also a few days left to apply for The Lenfest Institute’s collaboration grants, which award up to $25k each to bring Philadelphia-area organizations together for a news project.

Happening this week:

• Dar es Salaam is fact-checking
• Miami and IRE are holding their regular open labs
• Brisbane is talking about digital storytelling

Worth a read:

• The Economist recently unveiled a new weekly print section dedicated to highlighting the best of its data team’s visual storytelling (Medium)
• Niren Tolsi delivered a fire-themed lecture last week about media in South Africa. As Jason Norwood-Young wrote in Naked Data, "It is a burning indictment against modern journalism; a searing take on social media; and sets fire to a few bridges along the way … It is enlightening, and important, and very, very good." (Jocoza)
• A Reuters Institute study found that poorer people in the UK consume less news than wealthier people, especially online (NiemanLab)

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