New year of news nerdery
Happy new year, hacks and hackers! Journalism groups including MuckRock are still putting out their predictions for the next 365 days:
Worth a read:
- The 2021 State of CSS site collected survey responses from nearly 1,000 designers around the world to analyze and visualize how CSS innovation will look in the future.
- Find out the pros and cons between working at a big corporation versus a small startup as a data professional in this article from Towards Data Science.
- The COVID-19 Online Visualization Collection, or COVIC, project is an archive of published data visualizations related to the pandemic, including a searchable database organized by metrics like publisher, country, language and subject.
Jobs:
- Canada - Senior Editor, Towards Data Science
- Japan - Tech Editor, Bloomberg
- US - Data Journalist, Boston Globe
- US - Design and Presentation Director, Buffalo News
- US - Multiple data viz roles, Graphicacy
- US - Android Engineer, KPCC/LAist
- US - Product Director, KPCC/LAist
- US - Investigative Climate Data Journalist, KQED
- US - Digital Design and UX Director, NYPR
- US - Data Reporter, San Francisco Chronicle
- US - Full Stack Software Engineer, WBEZ
Upcoming events:
- March 3-6, 2022, Atlanta, US, NICAR
- March 7-10, 2022, Online, MozFest
- March 10-11, 2022, Online, News Product Alliance Summit
- April 1-2, 2022, Austin, US, International Symposium on Online Journalism
- April 6-10, 2022, Perugia, Italy, International Journalism Festival
- June 22-23, 2022, Minneapolis, US, SRCCON
Other opportunities:
- 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
