Mentorship for Arabic media startups, and other opportunities
Hope you had a good weekend, hacks and hackers. It's been a long week for journalists, even for those not in the U.S.
Let's see what Hacks/Hackers groups and our friends are up to in the coming week:
The week ahead:
- Brisbane is discussing Facebook bots
- Singapore is building a social privilege calculator
- IRE in Missouri is holding its weekly open lab
Worth a read:
- The J-school at UC Berkeley signed a deal with Amazon to stream its investigative documentaries, discovering a new revenue stream (NiemanLab)
- The American Press Institute published a strategy study on forging successful collaborations between commercial and nonprofit media (American Press Institute)
- Facebook's attempt to cut down on fake news may have backfired, according to a review by the Guardian (Guardian)
Job openings:
| Country | Employer | Opening |
|---|---|---|
| UK | CNBC | Deputy digital editor |
| UK | The Economist | Digital, Data & Social Journalism Fellowship |
| UK | Office of National Statistics | Data visualization producers |
| UK | OpenCorporates | Community and advocacy manager |
| US | VentureBeat | AI reporter |
| US | Pew Research Center | Motion graphics producer |
| US | Vox/ProPublica | Video fellow |
| US | Dallas Morning News | Computational journalist |
| US | Advance Digital | Web analyst |
| US | News Deeply | Chief product officer |
| US | Timeline | Head of Audience |
| US | Poynter | Visual journalism fellowship |
Upcoming events:
| Month | Day | City | Country | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May | 23-25 | Lima | Peru | Exquisite Corpses, a workshop on journalism projects |
| May | 25 - 27 | Lviv | Ukraine | Lviv Media Forum on digital revolution in media |
| June | 3-4 | Toronto | Canada | Local news and its future |
| 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 |
| September | 14-16 | Miami | USA | Digital Humanities + Data Journalism Symposium |
| October | 4-5 | New York | USA | Future of Storytelling Summit |
| October | 13-14 | Evanston | USA | Computer + Journalism Symposium |
Project funding:
| Deadline | Name | Organization | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rolling | MisinfoCon micro-grant | MisinfoCon | Small grants for experimental projects that fight misinformation |
| Rolling | Freelance Fund | Solutions Journalism Network | Small travel stipends for reporters working on "solutions journalism" |
| May | MENA Mentoring Center | IJNet Arabic | Mentorship for Arabic-language media entrepreneurs |
| June | Online Journalism Awards | Online Journalism Association | Prize money for innovative and digital journalism projects |
| June | Collaborative journalism grant | Center for Cooperative Media | Grants for journalism collaborations |
| June | Social Innovation Fellowship | Chicago Ideas Week | Funding and networking for entrepreneurs tackling social challenges |
| June | TruthBuzz | ICFJ | Cash prize for creative solutions to fact-checking |
| 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 |
