Propose a workshop for the 2020 Media Party
Hello, hacks and hackers! The lineup has been announced for the 2020 Buenos Aires Media Party. You can now submit workshop proposals for the conference, which is happening online from September 16-18.
Workshop proposals are due at the end of next week and can be submitted in either English or Spanish.
The week ahead:
- Uganda is creating content on Medium
- Dar es Salaam is talking about social media advocacy
- Nigeria is analyzing data with spreadsheets
Worth a read:
- What exactly is a knowledge graph? GIJN explains how to understand and implement these networks to expand your ability to research and track relations between sources.
- With TikTok gaining more notoriety worldwide, GIJN created a guide on how to do investigative journalism on the platform, like how to download user profile information.
- Professors from universities around the world wrote a paper on The Computational Limits of Deep Learning that analyzes the computation, economic, and environmental costs that come with deep learning tools gaining more prominence.
Job openings:
- Anywhere - Program Associate, Fund for Investigative Journalism
- Anywhere - Illustrator, Rest of World
- Anywhere - Research Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation
- Anywhere - Disinformation Research Scientist, Wikimedia Foundation
- Africa - Investigative Analyst, Code for Africa
- UK - Algorithms Reporter, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
- UK - Audience Growth Editor, New Scientist
- UK - Research Analyst/Journalist, BPL Business Media
- US - Data and Demographics Reporter, Arizona Republic
- US - Engagement Editor, CalMatters
- US - Product Manager, CalMatters
- US - Part-Time Social Media Producer, FiveThirtyEight
- US - Senior Editor, The Intercept
- US - Graphics Editor, Law360
- US - Editorial Researcher, NPR
- US - SEO Editor, NYT
- US - Digital Producer, Politico
Upcoming events:
- Sep 16-18, Online, Media Party 2020
- Sep 21-25, Online, IRE Conference
- Sep 23-27, Online, Environmental Journalism Conference
- Sep - Nov, Online, EIJC & Dataharvest
- Oct, Online, African Investigative Journalism Conference
- Oct 23-25, Online, Association of LGBTQ journalists (NLGA)
- Oct 1-16, Online, Online News Association Conference
- Dec 4-6, Online, Journalism & Women Symposium
Other opportunities:
- Rolling deadline, Apply for funds for a solutions journalism freelancer
- Rolling deadline, Funding to cover Covid in Black Sea countries
- Rolling deadline, National Geographic grants to cover COVID-19
- Rolling deadline, FIJ grant for Americans to cover COVID-19
- Rolling deadline, IWMF relief grant for COVID-19 struggles
- Rolling deadline, ECFJ grants for stories on elections, AI, disinformation
- Rolling deadline, Ukraine Media Development Fund
- Rolling deadline, Fund for Environmental Journalism Rapid Response
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