New engagement jobs
Welcome back, hacks and hackers! If you're interested in the burgeoning area of engagement reporting, there is a long list of jobs currently open:
Happening this week:
- London is meeting up this week
Worth a read:
- As the pandemic starts easing up in some places around the world, GIJN gives a list of five post-pandemic data story ideas to tackle in your community.
- SmartNews - a news aggregation app valued at over $2 billion that started in Japan and grew worldwide - is known for its recommendation algorithm and product design that clearly show the partisan leanings of news sources when showing articles.
- Creating virtual environments in Python makes it easier to manage dependencies needed for certain projects, and this guide from Towards Data Science shows how to use virtualenvwrapper - a library designed to be able to better organize several virtual environments.
Jobs:
- Anywhere - Data Visualization Journalist, Axios
- Anywhere - Remote Teachers, UC Berkeley
- UK - Jr. Software Engineer, BBC News
- UK - Software Engineer, BBC News
- UK - Sr. Software Engineer, BBC News
- UK - Special Projects Editor, PEI Media
- UK - Audience Editor, Reuters
- UK - Social Media Journalist, The Sun
- UK - Designer, The Times
- UK - Audience Development Manager, WIRED
- US - Interactive Designer, Dow Jones
- US - Frontend Developer, McClatchy
- US - Interactive Developer, Politico
- US - Data Analyst, Protect Democracy
- US - Graphics Producer, Star Tribune
- US - Chief Technology Officer, The 19th
- US - Rankings Editor, Wall Street Journal
Upcoming events:
- Oct 21-22, Online, IRE DBEI Symposium
- Nov 1-5, Online, GIJN Conference
- Nov 3-4, Online, News Philanthropy Summit
- April 1-2, 2022, Austin, USA, International Symposium on Online Journalism
- June 22-23, 2022, Minneapolis, USA, SRCCON
Other opportunities:
- October 27, Investigation grants for environmental journalism in the EU
- Rolling deadline, Pitch freelance stories in US news deserts to Parachute
- Rolling deadline, Funding from Google to fact-check vaccine misinformation
- Rolling deadline, Eyebeam grants for artistic contributions to journalism