More learning online in the fall
Welcome to July, hacks and hackers! More conferences have, unsurprisingly, moved to online. Many organizations are experimenting with a long series of workshops rather than a packed few days where sessions overlap.
See the events list below for the most up to date information.
Worth a read:
- The National Institute of Health in the U.S. launched a secure national database for doctors, scientists and researchers to study demographics of COVID-19 patients in hopes of better understanding the disease
- Lokal is a mobile news app in India that jumped from 1,600 users to millions in less than two years. The founders attribute their growth partly to asking their audience how they consume news, and implementing their feedback.
- This Thursday, GIJN will be hosting a free one-hour webinar interviewing journalists from around the globe about surviving the pandemic as a freelancer.
Job openings:
- Africa - Newsroom Editor, AIJC
- Africa - Programming Assistant, AIJC
- China - Digital Writer, Tatler Asia
- Senegal - News Assistant, NYT
- UK - Senior Journalism Lecturer, Oxford Brookes University
- US - Product Manager, Boston Globe
- US - Multiple openings, Business Insider
- US - Editorial Internships, CalMatters
- US - Computational Journalist, Dallas Morning News
- US - Web Producers, Hearst Connecticut Media Group
- US - Director of Development, Investigative Reporting Workshop
- US - Data & Graphics Deputy Editor, LA Times
- US - Data/Graphics Intern, NBC News
- US - Newsroom Software Engineer, NYT
- US - Associate Producer, NHK Japan
- US - John S. Knight Community Impact Fellow, Stanford
- US - Investigative Reporter, WAFB
- US - Multiple openings, Washington Post
Upcoming events:
- June 25-28, Online, Allied Media Conference
- July 16-17, Online, SRCCON
- July 20-24, Online, ISOJ
- Aug 5-9, Online, NABJxNAHJ Convention
- Aug 9-15, Online, AAJA Conference
- Aug 27-30, Online, IRE Conference
- Sep 10-13, Chicago, US, Association of LGBTQ journalists (NLGA)
- Sep 23-27, Online, Environmental Journalism Conference
- Sep - Nov, Online, EIJC & Dataharvest
- October, Online, African Investigative Journalism Conference
- Oct 1-16, Online, Online News Association Conference
- Dec 4-6, Austin, US, Journalism & Women Symposium
Other opportunities:
- July 15, ADAMI Media Prize for Cultural Diversity in Eastern Europe
- July 22, Submit a fact check to win an African Fact-Checking Award
- August 1, Apply for Fetisov Journalism Awards
- August 11, Training from RFE/RL for Eastern/SE European journalists
- August 12, Apply for the Google News Initiative Innovation Challenge
- 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
