Looking for new organizers
Greetings, hacks and hackers! We're holding an open call for new Hacks/Hackers organizers!
The leadership teams in these cities could use a little extra help. Do you know any students, nerds, journos or especially organized people in any of the following cities?
You don't need any kind of technical, hacking or organizing experience - just an interest in helping journos and techies help each other. Most of organizing is just handling emails, finding dates and conferring with speakers. Reply to this email or find Samantha, our communications head, on Twitter.
Worth a read:
- Google News Lab is expanding its service into Latin America, including tools, training and scholarships, in addition to its network in the U.S. (Knight Center)
- The founder of Wikipedia is starting a crowdfunded news source called Wikitribune (NiemanLab)
- Hearken is launching Open Notebook, a tool that enourages journalists to share their reporting with readers while it is still ongoing (NiemanLab)
Job openings:
| Country | Employer | Opening |
|---|---|---|
| UK | Huffington Post | Tech and life writer |
| UK | Economist | Interactive data journalist |
| USA | Louisville Courier-Journal | Investigative data reporter |
| USA | NPR | Data Scientist / Digital Analyst |
| USA | NBC | Senior Mobile Product Manager |
| USA | New York Post | Technology reporter |
| USA | Daily Beast | Senior product manager |
| USA | ProPublica | Data machinist |
| USA | ProPublica | News app developers |
| USA | New Mexico In Depth | Graphic journalist |
| USA | New York Magazine | Design director |
| USA | Texas Tribune | Data viz interns |
Upcoming events:
| Month | Day | City | Country | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May | 1-2 | Amman | Jordan | Arab Media Forum |
| May | 1-4 | Jakarta | Indonesia | UNESCO's conference for World Press Freedom Day |
| May | 4-6 | Galway | Ireland | MoJoCon, the Mobile Journalism Conference |
| May | 5-6 | Madrid | Spain | Digital tools workshop at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid |
| May | 13–14 | San Francisco | USA | Come & Play audio storytelling hackathon hosted by BuzzFeed and audiosear.ch |
| May | 15-20 | San Salvador | El Salvador | Forum for Central American Journalism |
| May | 18-20 | Hamburg | Germany | International Press Institute World Congress on media freedom in the digital age |
| May | 18-21 | Mechelen | Belgium | Dataharvest, the European Investigative Journalism Conference |
| May | 25 - 27 | Lviv | Ukraine | Lviv Media Forum on digital revolution in media |
| June | 7-9 | Durban | South Africa | World News Media Congress |
| June | 15-18 | Detroit | USA | Allied Media Conference |
| June | 19-21 | Bonn | Germany | Global Media Forum on identity and diversity |
| June | 20-23 | Portland | USA | Open Source Bridge |
| June | 21-22 | Phoenix | USA | INN Days, business training for nonprofit newsrooms |
| June | 21-23 | Vienna | Austria | Global Editors Network summit |
| June | 22-25 | Phoenix | USA | Investigative Reporters & Editors IRE Conference |
| July | 5-7 | Madrid | Spain | Global Fact-Checking Summit |
| July | 6-7 | Dublin | Ireland | European Data and Computational Journalism Conference |
| August | 17-19 | Denver | USA | WordCamp for Publishers, a Wordpress event |
| August | 31-1 | Grahamstown | South Africa | Highway Africa conference on media, accountability and local governance |
| October | 4-5 | New York | USA | Future of Storytelling Summit |
| October | 13-14 | Evanston | USA | Computer + Journalism Symposium |
Project funding:
| Deadline | Name | Organization | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| May | GIJC 17 Fellowship | GIJN | Travel stipend for the GIJC Conference in Johannesburg |
| July | Next Journalism Prize | Nieman Foundation | Funding for innovative journalism project in Europe |
| July | FoST Prize | Future of Storytelling | Monetary award for innovative and cutting-edge storytelling projects |
| September | INN Days reimbursement | INN | Travel stipends for INN member newsrooms traveling to INN Days in Phoenix |
