#JournalismJobs on every continent

Welcome to February, hacks and hackers. We had a packed global call on Wednesday where we first unveiled the new website (still in prototype form). What do you think?

Also, we’ve got journalism jobs on every continent this week, and journalism events leading into May, so read on:

The week ahead:

• New Orleans is holding a hackathon with ONA
• Singapore is building a socio-economic privilege calculator
• Caracas is holding a Data Party
• Philadelphia is hearing about cool projects from National Geographic
• IRE in Missouri is holding its weekly open lab

Group spotlight:

Nairobi organizer Flo Sipalla shared a blog post she wrote on the group’s meetup last week, a roundtable discussion on how to combat fake news.

She said the Africa regional group uses a combination of sites to make, promote and track their events:

• Twitter for advertising events
• Facebook for sharing event details
• Medium for publishing blog posts
• bit.ly for tracking readership
• Google Group for discussing group news

If you decide five platforms aren’t enough for you, check out other groups’ experiments with Meetup, Github, Slack, MailChimp and Eventbrite.

Worth a read:

• MuckRock’s Slack channel for FOIA discussions has gained more than 1500 members since Trump’s election (Poynter)
• Colombian journalists are using digital tools to create their own databases when the government can’t or won’t give them accurate data (Knight Center)
• The Washington Post is filling the gaps exposed by the presidential election with freelancers placed all over the U.S. (Columbia Journalism Review)

Job openings:

• Europe:
• The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has two openings on its Data Lab
• Reuters is looking for a video editor in London
• North America:
• ProPublica is hiring a web producer and full-stack developer
• McClatchy has two openings for data reporters
• Politico Pro is hiring a graphics reporter for its DataPoint team
• Searchlight New Mexico is looking for a senior data journalist
• Palm Beach Post is taking applications for a data internship
• Pew Research Center is hiring an interactive designer
• Quartz is looking for an app writer
• ESPN has an opening for a senior digital designer
• FiveThirtyEight is hiring two visual journalists
• Latin America:
• Reporters Without Borders is hiring a program director and a lead researcher for its Media Ownership Monitor
• Asia:
• CNNMoney is seeking a multiplatform editor in Hong Kong
• ICFJ is taking applications for a Knight journalism fellow in Indonesia
• Africa:
• Code for Africa has an opening for program manager in Nigeria

Upcoming events:

• February:
• 6 – Paris, France – News Impact Summit
• 8-9 – London, UK – newsrewired
• 11-12 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Hackathon for Humanitarian Aid
• 18-19 – Tucson, USA – News Hack Arizona
• 24-26 – Boston, USA – MisinfoCon, a summit on misinformation
• March:
• 2-5 – Jacksonville, USA – National Institute of Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR) conference
• 10-11 – Milan, Italy – Visualized Milan
• 10-16 – Austin, USA – SXSW Interactive Festival
• 15-16 – London, UK – The Guardian Changing Media Summit
• 23 – Miami, USA – Journalists & Editors workshop on Mobile Media Culture in the Americas
• 29-31 – Brussels, Belgium – RightsCon for a freer Internet
• 31-1 – Tonsberg, Norway – SKUP conference for investigative reporters and editors in Norway
• April:
• 5-9 – Perugia, Italy – International Journalism Festival
• 15-16 – Austin, USA – International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ)
• May:
• 1-4 – Jakarta, Indonesia – UNESCO’s conference for World Press Freedom Day
• 4-6 – Galway, Ireland – MoJoCon Mobile Journalism Conference
• 18-20 – Hamburg, Germany – International Press Institute congress on media freedom in the digital age
• 18-21 – Mechelen, Belgium – Dataharvest, the European Investigative Journalism Conference