Register for the AP's free AI workshops
Greetings, hacks and hackers! Registration is open for the AP’s free, online six week course on newsroom AI and automation.
The course starts on April 13 and will include guest speakers, office hours, how-to videos and workshops to help you learn how to incorporate AI technologies into your newsroom operations. Get your free ticket on Eventbrite!
Happening this week:
- Taipei is holding a conversation on working for international media outlets
Worth a read:
- Fifteen media outlets participated in a seven month Google News Initiative/Institute for Nonprofit News collaboration to modify business strategies, and the participating outlets grew their revenues by 32% in advertising, 250% in sponsorship and 1485% in events.
- When aggregating data in an effort to point out trends and make it easier to understand, we can sometimes lose important context. This Stack Overflow blogpost talks about ways to incorporate complex data in a visualization to not lose the signal from the noise.
- The OCCRP created some tips for tracking Russian-owned assets around the world to see how far the reach of Russian oligarchs go.
Upcoming events:
- March 31, Online, ONA Career Day
- 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
- April 7, Perugia, Italy, MisinfoCon @ IJF
- April 13-May 18, Online, AP Local News AI Readiness Workshops
- 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
- August 25-27, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Media Party
Job postings:
- Anywhere - The DataFace, Information Designer
- Anywhere - GIJN, Associate Editor
- Anywhere - Tiny News Collective, Freelance UX Designer
- Belgium - Politico, Cybersecurity Reporter
- Belgium - Politico, Technology Reporter
- East Africa - Quartz, East Africa Correspondent
- Europe - Investigate Europe, Web Content Editor/Coordinator
- Europe - OCCRP, Investigations Editor
- Mexico - Reuters, Data Journalist
- Spain - Dow Jones, Integration Research Team Leader
- UK - MailOnline, Science & Technology Reporter
- US - ALM, Newsroom Data Engineer
- US - Axios, Editorial Fellow
- US - Money-Media, Data Viz Reporter
- US - Morning Brew, Product Manager
- US - Newsweek, Database Reporter
- US - OCCRP, Program Manager, US Grants
- US - Philadelphia Inquirer, Graphic Artist
- US - Vox, Multiple product/engineering roles
- US - VTDigger, Full Stack Web Developer
