London tackles verification this week
Greetings, hacks and hackers! This week,hacks and hackers in London are learning about audience engagement, content discovery and that famous BBC video verification.
You can follow them on Eventbrite to keep up with their monthly events in London.
Worth a read:
- A report from the Institute for Nonprofit News shows that nonprofit newsrooms in the U.S. bring in about $350 million in total annual revenue (NiemanLab)
- Tanzania recently made it a crime to publicly question official government statistics. The Center for Global Development looks at what the World Bank is doing to help (Center for Global Development)
- Simmons Research created a News Media Trust Index based on US respondents’ trustworthiness in 38 large, well-known news sources. Their study found that 13 percent of respondents found none of the news sources trustworthy (Simmons Research)
Upcoming events:
| Month | Day | City | Country | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October | 15-17 | Yerevan | Armenia | Drone journalism school |
| October | 22-24 | Copenhagen | Denmark | International Anti-Corruption Conference |
| October | 22-28 | London | UK | Mozilla Festival (MozFest) |
| October | 25 | London | UK | MisInfoCon London |
| October | 25 | London | UK | OpenNews Unconference on Journalism Tech |
| October | 26-27 | West Virginia | US | Missing Voices: Diversifying the News |
| November | 1-2 | Antalya | Turkey | Fact-Checking Summit |
| November | 5 | Johannesburg | South Africa | Fact-Checking Workshop |
| November | 16-18 | Philadelphia | US | News Foundry inaugural event |
| November | 16-18 | Austin | US | CredCon |
| December | 8-9 | Glasgow | Scotland | Creating the Media Scotland Deserves |
| December | 13-14 | Philadelphia | US | SRCCON: POWER |
| January | 7-11 | Amsterdam | Netherlands | Digital Methods Winter School |
| February | 1-2 | Miami | US | Computation + Journalism Symposium |
Job openings:
| Location | Employer | Opening |
|---|---|---|
| UK | Reuters | Data Visualization Developer |
| US | Dow Jones | Senior Product Designer |
| US | FiveThirtyEight | Visual and Interactive Journalists |
| US | Pensions & Investments | Web Producer |
| US | Philadelphia Inquirer | Senior News Developer |
| US | Voice of America | Interactive News Developer |
| US | WHYY | Data Reporter |
Project funding:
| Deadline | Fund |
|---|---|
| Rolling | Solutions Journalism Network Freelance Fund |
| Rolling | Ukraine Media Development Fund |
| Rolling | Contest fees for submitting solutions stories |
| October | Local News Business Model Challenge |
| October | Philadelphia news ecosystem collaboration grant |
| November | Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Programme 2019 |
| December | Journalism scholarships for software developers |
| January | Entrepreneurial Journalism cohort |
