Monetizing and remote working for the year of Covid
Welcome back, hacks and hackers! It's a tough world out there, and many, if not most, news organizations are taking a financial hit during coronavirus. More outlets are transitioning to full-time remote, and this week we have all-remote jobs.
In other job news, News Revenue Hub is hiring a contract analyst, due tomorrow, and NiemanLab has some tips for transitioning your whole team to remote work.
The week ahead:
- London is talking about data design
Worth a read:
- The BBC's new director general is not instituting a subscription model, saying it would cleave the outlet to certain demographics
- BuzzFeed News uncovered Muslim concentration camps using masked tiles in the popular Baidu mapping platform
- GIJN is launching a series called Digging into Disappearances for journalists investigating organized crime and missing people. There are online webinars available in English, Spanish and French
Job postings:
- Anywhere - News Revenue Hub, Data Analyst (Due Monday)
- Anywhere - Vox, Podcast Producer
- Anywhere - The Intercept, Digital Producer
- Anywhere - MIT Technology Review, Senior Writer
- Anywhere - Committee to Protect Journalists, Video Producer
- Anywhere - Daily Yonder, Digital Editor
- Anywhere - Internet Archive, Web Application Developer
- Anywhere - Internet Archive, Law and Policy Fellow
- Anywhere - FiveThirtyEight, Social Media Producer
Upcoming events:
- Sep 16-18, Online, Hacks/Hackers Media Party 2020
- Sep 21-25, Online, IRE Conference
- Sep 23-27, Online, Environmental Journalism Conference
- Sep - Nov, Online, EIJC & Dataharvest
- Oct, Online, African Investigative Journalism Conference
- Oct 16-17, Online, Truth and Trust Online Conference
- Oct 23-25, Online, Association of LGBTQ journalists (NLGA)
- Oct 1-11, Online, Online News Association Conference
- Dec 4-6, Online, Journalism & Women Symposium
Other opportunities:
- Rolling deadline, Apply for funds for a solutions journalism freelancer
- Rolling deadline, Funding to cover Covid in Black Sea countries
- 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
- Rolling deadline, Ukraine Media Development Fund
- Rolling deadline, Fund for Environmental Journalism Rapid Response
