News at the International Journalism Festival
Greetings, hacks and hackers! The International Journalism Festival happened this weekend in Perugia, Italy, and if you weren't able to be there, the #IFJ19 tweeters have you covered.
It also saw the launch of datajournalism.com, which offers members The Data Journalism Handbook, 1Password, DIFFBOT and a host of other tools.
Happening this week:
- Austin is pre-gaming the ISOJ conference
- Montreal is hanging out at the pub
- Buenos Aires is reinventing election coverage
Worth a read:
- Plotly created a guide for using their new open source Python viz library called Plotly Express that makes interactive plots in a single function call (Plotly)
- Whenever an agency dumps hundreds of pages of documents at once, what tools do news orgs use to search through them on deadline to publish stories? Factful tested out seven different OCR tools and compared the results (Open News)
- A PhD student at the University of Missouri analyzed interviews from a survey on trust in news done by the Reynolds Journalism Institute and found that 77.8% of news readers said that balance is what separates good journalism from bad (RJI)
Upcoming events:
| Month | Day | City | Country | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April | 8-10 | Lisbon | Portugal | IPTC Spring Meeting |
| April | 12-13 | Austin | US | International Symposium on Online Journalism |
| April | 30-1 | San Jose | US | Facebook Developer Conference |
| May | 2-3 | Addis Ababa | Ethiopia | UNESCO World Press Freedom Day |
| May | 13-17 | San Francisco | US | The Web Conference |
| May | 16-19 | Mechelen | Belgium | European Investigative Journalism Conference |
| May | 17-19 | Prague | Czech Republic | Wikimedia Hackathon |
| May | 24-28 | Washington, D.C. | US | ICA Conference |
| May | 27-28 | Bonn | Germany | DW Global Media Forum |
| June | 1-3 | Glasgow | UK | World News Media Conference |
| June | 11-14 | Tunis | Tunisia | RightsCon Tunis |
| June | 13-15 | Athens | Greece | GEN Summit |
| June | 13-16 | Houston | US | Investigative Reporters & Editors Conference |
| June | 19-21 | Cape Town | South Africa | Global Fact-Checking Summit |
| July | 19-21 | Toronto | Canada | International Conference on Social Media & Society |
Job openings:
| Location | Employer | Opening |
|---|---|---|
| China | Oriental Press Group | Java Analyst/Programmer |
| China | Oriental Press Group | Web Producer |
| China | South China Morning Post | Engineer, Ad Tech - Product |
| US | American Press Institute | Freelance Developer for Analytics Application Support |
| US | FRONTLINE | Senior Developer |
| US | NJ.com | Data and Investigative Projects Editor |
| US | The Philadelphia Inquirer | Design Director |
| US | The Philadelphia Inquirer | Product Design Manager |
| US | Simons Foundation | Data Reporter |
| US | Spectrum | Data Reporter |
| US | Wall Street Journal | Visuals Editor |
Other opportunities:
| Deadline | Fund |
|---|---|
| Rolling | Solutions Journalism Network Freelance Fund |
| Rolling | Ukraine Media Development Fund |
| Rolling | Contest fees for submitting solutions stories |
| April | Magic grants from The Brown Institute for Media Innovation |
| April | Data Journalism Awards for free trip to Athens for GEN Summit |
