MisinfoCon in DC, disinfo fellowships and the new Y2K
Welcome to the new year, hacks and hackers. Last year saw the addition of Northeast England and Seoul, South Korea. Here's to many more meetups to come!
In case you missed the announcement last week, our joint project MisinfoCon is holding an upcoming gathering in Washington, D.C. MisinfoCon @ NASEM will focus on health and science misinformation, in partnership with the U.S. National Academies of Sciences.
The week ahead:
- Montreal is meeting at the pub
Worth a read:
- Data privacy has been a hot issue for a long time, with a fringe group even advocating for users to be paid for their data. But how would that work? A team from Berkeley's AI research team ran an experiment (BAIR)
- Facebook made some waves last week when it said it would ban deep fakes from the platform. Shortly afterward, Reddit followed suit. (Nieman Lab)
- Twenty years after the turn of the millennium, the Y2K bug is still coming back to haunt us, thanks to some lazy code from two decades ago (New Scientist)
Job openings:
| Location | Employer | Opening |
|---|---|---|
| Anywhere | GIJN | Resource Center Director |
| Anywhere | GIJN | Event Coordinator |
| Anywhere | GIJN | Associate Editor |
| Belgium | Politico | Audience Development Editor |
| Hong Kong | South China Morning Post | Tech Editor |
| UAE | The Telegraph | Video Producer |
| UK | The Sun | Graphic Designer |
| US | The Mercury News/East Bay Times | Web Designer |
| US | Quanta Magazine | Audience Engagement Editor |
| US | Virginian-Pilot | Digital Producer |
| US | World & Resources Institute | Data Journalist |
| US | MarketWatch | Engagement editor |
| US | Quartz | Tech editor |
| US | Colorado Public Radio | Audio Innovations Studio Producer |
| US | NPR | News Apps Editor |
Upcoming events:
| Month | Day | City | Country | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February | 18-20 | Chiang Mai | Thailand | Splice Asian Media Conference |
| March | 5-8 | New Orleans | US | NICAR Conference |
| March | 20-21 | Boston | US | Computation + Journalism Symposium |
| March | 20-22 | Boston | US | Power of Narrative |
| April | 1-5 | Perugia | Italy | International Journalism Conference |
| May | 14-17 | Mechelen | Belgium | EIJC & Dataharvest |
| June | 2-5 | Seoul | South Korea | International Anti-Corruption Conference |
| June | 9-12 | Heredia | Costa Rica | RightsCon |
| June | 18-21 | National Harbor | US | IRE Conference |
| June | 24-27 | Oslo | Norway | Global Fact 7 |
Other opportunities:
| Deadline | Fund |
|---|---|
| January 15 | Disinformation fellowship for journalism students |
| January 31 | Grad school scholarship for journalists in Latin America |
| April 3-5 | Information Ethics Roundtable in Boston |
| Rolling | ECFJ grants for stories on elections, AI, disinformation, etc. |
| Rolling | Solutions Journalism Network Freelance Fund |
| Rolling | Ukraine Media Development Fund |
| Rolling | Contest fees for submitting solutions stories |
