New freelance and remote job opportunities
Greetings, hacks and hackers. We're hoping everyone is staying safe. There has been a lot of upheaval in the news industry lately - even more than usual.
We included an especially large collection of freelance and remote jobs this week, so please check it out or share with fellow journos in need.
The week ahead:
- London is visualizing coronavirus cases (online)
- Nigeria is fact-checking coronavirus information (online)
Worth a read:
- Journalists from China, Italy and the U.S. suggested investigative stories related to the pandemic as part of GIJN’s webinar series on covering COVID-19 (GIJN)
- Predictions are in extremely high demand. some data journalists explained why it’s so difficult to create an accurate COVID-19 model (FiveThirtyEight)
- One viral "study" from Belgian researchers saying that jogging can still put you at risk for contracting COVID-19 was fact-checked by a reporter who found out it wasn’t peer-reviewed or reliable (VICE)
Job openings:
- Anywhere: Atlas Obscura, Freelance Reporters
- Anywhere: Axios, Data Viz Freelancers
- Anywhere: Huffington Post, Freelance Reporters
- Anywhere: World Resources Institute, Data Journalist
- Americas: Al Jazeera, Freelance COVID-19 Reporters
- China: South China Morning Post, Front-End Web Developer
- Spain: Dow Jones, Data Strategy Intern
- UK: The Times & The Sunday Times, Junior Audience Strategist
- UK: The Times & The Sunday Times, Taxonomist/Metadata Librarian
- UK: Twitter, Twitter Moments Curator
- US: Grist, Full-Stack Web Developer
- US: New Yorker, Web Producer/Copy Editor
Upcoming events:
- April 23-26, Online International Symposium on Online Journalism
- May 14-15, Online, Collaborative Journalism Summit
- June 2-4, Online, Data + Narrative Workshop
- June 24-27, Online, Global Fact 7
- June 25-28, Online, Allied Media Conference
- July 4, Düsseldorf, Germany, JournoCon
- July 8-12, Washington DC, US, NABJxNAHJ Conference
- July 16-17, Minneapolis, US, SRCCON
- July 19-Aug 1, Washington DC, US, AAJA Conference
- Aug 27-30, National Harbor, US, IRE Conference
- Sep 10-12, Washington DC, US, Excellence in Journalism Conference
- Sep 10-13, Chicago, US, The Association of LGBTQ journalists (NLGA)
- Sep 13-16, Phoenix, US, National Native Media Conference
- Sep 21-25, Geneva, Switzerland, AI for Good Summit
- Sep 30-October 3, Atlanta, US, Online News Association Conference
- Nov 5-8, Mechelen, Belgium, EIJC & Dataharvest
- Dec 4-6, Austin, US, Journalism & Women Symposium
- TBA, Boston, US, Computation + Journalism Symposium
- TBA, Washington DC, US, SND Conference
- TBA, Atlanta, US, NewsQ Hackathon
- TBA, Seoul, South Korea, International Anti-Corruption Conference
Other opportunities:
- April 30, Africa-China reporting grant for COVID-19 coverage
- June 15, Data journalism award on Amazon Forest coverage
- Rolling deadline, National Geographic grants to cover COVID-19
- Rolling deadline, FIJ grant for Americans to cover COVID-19
- Rolling deadline, Women journalists can apply for relief grant from COVID-19 struggles
- Rolling deadline, ECFJ grants for stories on elections, AI, disinformation, etc.
- Rolling deadline, Solutions Journalism Network Freelance Fund
- Rolling deadline, Ukraine Media Development Fund
- Rolling deadline, Contest fees for submitting solutions stories
