Relief funds for local news orgs
Hello, hacks and hackers! The Google News Initiative (GNI) created a Global Journalism Emergency Relief Fund to financially assist local news organizations that are struggling to stay afloat while covering COVID-19 in their communities.
Publishers from anywhere in the world can apply for funding by April 29, and you can find informational videos about the fund in several different languages on GNI’s YouTube channel.
The week ahead:
- Zurich is talking COVID-19 coverage (online)
Worth a read:
- A collaborative fact-checking project called the Latam Chequea Coronavirus project is bringing 28 fact-checking organizations from Latin America together to help journalists cover COVID-19 (Knight Center)
- Google released anonymized, aggregated insights on how communities around the world are moving during the pandemic through its Community Mobility Reports, and you can download reports by country or state (Google)
- With flooding and hurricane season coming, ProPublica looked at how prepared the U.S. is to handle natural disasters on top of COVID-19 (ProPublica)
Job openings:
- Anywhere: Brainstorm Creative Solutions, Data Viz Designer/Developer
- Czech Republic: RFE/RL, Social Media Producer, Uzbek Service
- UK: BBC World Service, Senior Journalist Reporter
- UK: The Sun, SEO Editor
- US: Apple News, Content Engineer
- US: Conde Nast, Product Manager
- US: Glass Cannon Inc, Investigative Researcher
- US: McKinsey & Company, Senior Data Viz Editor
- US: MuckRock, Development Associate
- US: OpenDemocracy, US Investigations Editor
- US: Rest of World, Audience Development Lead
Upcoming events:
- April 23-26, Online International Symposium on Online Journalism
- May 14-15, Online, Collaborative Journalism Summit
- June 2-4, Online, Data + Narrative Workshop
- June 24-27, Online, Global Fact 7
- June 25-28, Online, Allied Media Conference
- July 4, Düsseldorf, Germany, JournoCon
- July 8-12, Washington DC, US, NABJxNAHJ Conference
- July 16-17, Minneapolis, US, SRCCON
- July 19-Aug 1, Washington DC, US, AAJA Conference
- Aug 27-30, National Harbor, US, IRE Conference
- Sep 10-12, Washington DC, US, Excellence in Journalism Conference
- Sep 10-13, Chicago, US, The Association of LGBTQ journalists (NLGA)
- Sep 13-16, Phoenix, US, National Native Media Conference
- Sep 21-25, Geneva, Switzerland, AI for Good Summit
- Sep 30-Oct 3, Atlanta, US, Online News Association Conference
- Nov 5-8, Mechelen, Belgium, EIJC & Dataharvest
- Dec 4-6, Austin, US, Journalism & Women Symposium
- TBA, Boston, US, Computation + Journalism Symposium
- TBA, Washington DC, US, SND Conference
- TBA, Atlanta, US, NewsQ Hackathon
- TBA, Seoul, South Korea, International Anti-Corruption Conference
Other opportunities:
- April 29, CGTN global call for COVID-19 pitches
- April 30, Africa-China reporting grant for COVID-19 coverage
- June 15, Data journalism award on Amazon Forest coverage
- Rolling deadline, National Geographic grants to cover COVID-19
- Rolling deadline, FIJ grant for Americans to cover COVID-19
- Rolling deadline, Women journalists can apply for relief grant from COVID-19 struggles
- Rolling deadline, ECFJ grants for stories on elections, AI, disinformation, etc.
- Rolling deadline, Solutions Journalism Network travel fellowship
- Rolling deadline, Ukraine Media Development Fund
- Rolling deadline, Contest fees for submitting solutions stories
