Learn new skills from fellow hacks and hackers

Hope you're staying safe, hacks and hackers! There are two cool online meetups coming up next week, from the Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nigeria umbrella groups.

If you want to learn about health and safety online, and are in a somewhat similar time zone, go ahead and register below.

The week ahead:

• Dar es Salaam is sharing health tips (online)
• Nigeria is staying safe on the web (online)

Worth a read:

• News use has skyrocketed due to the coronavirus, but it was soon followed by news avoidance, according to new research on the UK by the Reuters Institute
• GIJN published a guide on assessing medical studies in light of COVID-19
• Large layoffs at pioneering digital outlets like BuzzFeed and Vice indicate that digital is no longer the cash cow it once was, media analysts say

Job openings:

• Anywhere - Education project manager, News Literacy Project
• Anywhere - Web designer, Membership Puzzle Project
• Africa - Front end engineer, Code for Africa
• Africa - Fact checkers, Code for Africa
• Hong Kong - Features producer, CNN
• US - Editorial Director, Bloc by Block
• US - Future of Work editor, Philadelphia Inquirer
• US - Audience engagement editor, Marshall Project
• US - Podcast producer, First Look Media

Upcoming events:

• June 2-4, Online, Data + Narrative Workshop
• June 6-10, Online, LAMPA 2020
• June 24-27, Online, Global Fact 7
• June 25-28, Online, Allied Media Conference
• July 4, Düsseldorf, Germany, JournoCon
• July 16-17, Online, SRCCON
• July 19-Aug 1, Washington DC, US, AAJA Conference
• Aug 5-9, Online, NABJxNAHJ Convention
• Aug 27-30, National Harbor, US, IRE Conference
• Sep 10-12, Washington DC, US, Excellence in Journalism Conference
• Sep 10-13, Chicago, US, The Association of LGBTQ journalists (NLGA)
• Sep 13-16, Phoenix, US, National Native Media Conference
• Sep 21-25, Geneva, Switzerland, AI for Good Summit
• Sep 23-27, Boise, US, Environmental Journalism Conference
• Sep 30-Oct 3, Atlanta, US, Online News Association Conference
• Nov 5-8, Mechelen, Belgium, EIJC & Dataharvest
• Dec 4-6, Austin, US, Journalism & Women Symposium

Other opportunities:

• June 15, Data journalism award on Amazon Forest coverage
• Rolling deadline, National Geographic grants to cover COVID-19
• Rolling deadline, FIJ grant for Americans to cover COVID-19
• Rolling deadline, IWMF relief grant for COVID-19 struggles
• Rolling deadline, ECFJ grants for stories on elections, AI, disinformation, etc.
• Rolling deadline, Solutions Journalism Network travel fellowship
• Rolling deadline, Ukraine Media Development Fund
• Rolling deadline, Contest fees for submitting solutions stories
• Rolling deadline, Fund for Environmental Journalism Rapid Response Grants