Next week is the Outlier Conference

Happy Sunday, hacks and hackers! Next week, starting on Friday, is the Outlier Conference run by the Data Visualization Society.

Tickets to attend the online event are available on a sliding scale.

Worth a read:

• Nieman Lab wrote about how US journalism fails to serve an international audience, and lists potential steps a news organization could take to better represent and engage with an international audience.
• Data visualization is a marriage of art and science, and this article talks about how to evoke “aesthetic empathy” from data visualizations, like engaging other senses such as sound and touch.
• Saving Journalism is a series started by a program director at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs that explores the state of journalism during the pandemic and analyzes methods that news organizations have been utilizing to sustain it.

Jobs:

• Anywhere - Data Viz Journalist, Axios
• Anywhere - Data Editor, BuzzFeed
• Anywhere - Deputy Investigations Editor, BuzzFeed
• Anywhere - Engagement Editor, MIT Technology Review
• Anywhere - Front End Developer, OCCRP
• South Africa - News Interns, Jacaranda FM & VoW FM
• UK - Audience Analyst, The Sun
• UK - Fact Check Reporter, Newsweek
• US - Data Journalist, Big Local News
• US - Editor, Data & Graphics, CNN
• US - Sr. Editor, Data & Graphics, CNN
• US - DevSecOps Engineer, Protect Democracy
• US - Brand Designer, The 19th
• US - Community Engagement Lead, University of Minnesota
• US - Investigative Producer, WDIV Local 4
• US - Numbers Columnist, WSJ

Upcoming events:

• February 4-5, Online, Outlier Conference
• February 22-23, Online, Global eSummit: Journalism and the Climate Crisis
• March 3-6, Atlanta, US, NICAR
• March 7-10, Online, MozFest
• March 10-11, Online, News Product Alliance Summit
• March 17-19, Tunis, Tunisia, Assises Internationales du Journalisme
• March 18-19, Online/Boston, US, The Power of Narrative Conference
• April 1-2, Austin, US, International Symposium on Online Journalism
• April 1-3, Tønsberg, Norway, SKUP Conference
• April 6-10, Perugia, Italy, International Journalism Festival
• May 19-20, Chicago, US, Collaborative Journalism Summit
• May 19-22, Mechelen, Belgium, Dataharvest
• June 6-10, Online, RightsCon
• June 20-21, Bonn, Germany, DW Global Media Forum
• June 22-23, Minneapolis, US, SRCCON
• June 22-25, Oslo, Norway, Global Fact Conference
• June 23-26, Denver, US, IRE
• June 27-30, Honolulu, US, EWC International Media Conference
• June 27-July 1, Medellín, Colombia, World Conference of Science Journalists
• July 8-13, Shanghai, China, World Journalism Education Congress
• July 15-17, Couthures-sur-Garonne, France, Festival International de Journalisme

Other opportunities:

• Rolling deadline, Pitch freelance stories in US news deserts to Parachute
• Rolling deadline, Eyebeam grants for artistic contributions to journalism