Learn how to automate your newsroom
Hello hacks and hackers! Interested in learning about the impact of AI journalism? The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas is holding a free online course this spring for journalists to learn how to bring algorithms and automation to their newsrooms.
The course will take place from February 11 to March 10, learn more about what it entails and how to sign up here.
Happening this week:
- London is holding its first workshop of the year
- IRE is holding its regular open lab
- Vienna is talking about investigative projects
- Brisbane is having their monthly meeting
- Kuala Lumpur is innovating storytelling
Worth a read:
- As society learned how to manage waste from the industrial revolution, it needs to learn how to identify and treat pollution from the digital age as well (Washington Monthly)
- Is your newsroom thinking of launching a podcast to tell a story? Paul McNally, a journalist from a mostly print background, wrote up a list of seven things he learned while producing his first investigative podcast (GIJN)
- An IP address-related decision made by U.S. Military cartographers inadvertently caused lawyers, investigators and police to repeatedly visit a house in South Africa (Gizmodo)
Upcoming events:
| Month | Day | City | Country | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28-30 | Orlando | US | DCN Next: Summit |
| January | 31 | Stirling | Scotland | MisinfoConX Scotland |
| February | 1-2 | Miami | US | Computation + Journalism Symposium |
| February | 10-12 | Phoenix | US | IAB Leadership Meeting |
| February | 19-20 | Stanford | US | Data on Purpose |
| March | 4-8 | San Francisco | US | RSA Conference |
| March | 6-7 | Dubai | UAE | WAN-IFRA Middle East Conference |
| March | 7-10 | Newport Beach | US | CAR Conference |
| March | 23 - 24 | Cairo | Egypt | Arab Data Journalist’s Network Conference |
| April | 1-2 | Vienna | Austria | Digital Media Europe |
| April | 1-5 | Valencia | Spain | Internet Freedom Festival |
| April | 4-5 | Gdańsk | Poland | Personal Democracy Forum |
| April | 3-7 | Perugia | Italy | International Journalism Festival |
| April | 5-6 | Kalmar | Sweden | GRAV Swedish Investigative Journalism Conference |
| April | 5-7 | Kuala Lumpur | Malaysia | World Conference on Media and Mass Communication |
| April | 8-10 | Lisbon | Portugal | IPTC Spring Meeting |
| April | 12-13 | Austin | US | International Symposium on Online Journalism |
| April | 30-1 | San Jose | US | Facebook Developer Conference |
| May | 2-3 | Addis Ababa | Ethiopia | UNESCO World Press Freedom Day |
| May | 13-17 | San Francisco | US | The Web Conference |
| May | 16-19 | Mechelen | Belgium | European Investigative Journalism Conference |
| May | 17-19 | Prague | Czech Republic | Wikimedia Hackathon |
| May | 24-28 | Washington, D.C. | US | ICA Conference |
| May | 27-28 | Bonn | Germany | DW Global Media Forum |
| June | 1-3 | Glasgow | UK | World News Media Conference |
| June | 11-14 | Tunis | Tunisia | RightsCon Tunis |
| June | 13-15 | Athens | Greece | GEN Summit |
| June | 13-16 | Houston | US | Investigative Reporters & Editors Conference |
| June | 19-21 | Cape Town | South Africa | Global Fact-Checking Summit |
| July | 19-21 | Toronto | Canada | International Conference on Social Media & Society |
Job openings:
| Location | Employer | Opening |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | Agence France-Presse | Fact-Checking and Data Journalist |
| US | American Association for the Advancement of Science | Interactive Graphics Editor |
| US | Hearken | Product Manager |
| US | Inc. | Data Reporter |
| US | ICIJ | Training Manager |
| US | The Los Angeles Times | Deputy Director, Data and Graphics |
| US | The Philadelphia Inquirer | Analytics Editor |
| US | Reuters | Data Visualization Editor |
| US | Solutions Journalism Network | Online Engagement Editor |
| US | Spectrum | Data Reporter |
| US | Tampa Bay Times | Application Developer (Back End) |
| US | University of Nevada | Assistant Professor of Immersive Media |
| US | WBEZ | Lead Software Engineer |
Other opportunities:
| Deadline | Fund |
|---|---|
| Rolling | Solutions Journalism Network Freelance Fund |
| Rolling | Ukraine Media Development Fund |
| Rolling | Contest fees for submitting solutions stories |
| January | Nominate a journalist from an Arab country for a data journalism award |
| January | RJI 2019 Fellowships |
| January | Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Fellowships |
| February | Apply for data journalism and storytelling training in Iraq |
| February | Become a Report for America corps member |
| April | Data Journalism Awards for free trip to Athens for GEN Summit |
