Scotland and Rome join the Hacks/Hackers clan
Welcome, hacks and hackers! This week let's give a big welcome to our two newest meetups, Rome and Scotland. Pass the word on to your friends in Italy and the UK, and keep an eye out for new events.
The week ahead:
- Kampala is meeting with the Solutions Journalism Network
- Nairobi is discussing trust in the media
- Miami and IRE are holding their regular open labs
Worth a read:
- It's Olympics time! NiemanLab put together a list of the most innovative and experimental ways to cover it (NiemanLab)
- On that note, the American Press Institute created a site for discovering and comparing notes on innovative and experimental news projects (BetterNews)
- One Scandinavian publishing house is trying to create a method for finding subscribers who are the most likely to pay (NiemanLab)
Job openings:
| Location | Employer | Opening |
|---|---|---|
| Hong Kong | South China Morning Post | Multimedia developer |
| India | Reuters | Multimedia journalist |
| India | IndiaToday | Tech blogger |
| India | The Print | Web producer |
| South Africa | Code for Africa | Production manager |
| UK | Express | Senior technology reporter |
| UK | Telegraph | Production editor |
| UK | Financial Times | Creative producer |
| US | NPR | Design technologist intern |
| US | NPR | News app developer |
| US | First Look Media | Front-end engineer |
| US | First Look Media | Back-end engineer |
| US | Washington Post | Graphics developer |
| US | LA Times | Graphics journalist |
| US | inewsource | Web producer |
| US | WSJ | Freelance product designer |
| US | Marshall Project | Web developer |
Upcoming events:
| Month | Day | City | Country | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February | 27-28 | New York | NY | Digital Strategy Innovation Summit for publishers |
| March | 3 | Everywhere | Everywhere | Open Data Day |
| March | 7 | London | UK | The Guardian Changing Media Summit |
| March | 7 | London | UK | Newsrewired digital journalism conference |
| March | 8-9 | London | UK | Digital Media Strategies event |
| March | 8-11 | Chicago | US | NICAR data journalism conference |
| March | 10-15 | Austin | US | SXSW technology festival |
| March | 15-17 | Stockholm | Sweden | NODA Nordic data journalism conference |
| March | 21-23 | Vail | US | DigiDay Publishing Summit |
| March | 22 | Campinas | Brazil | Digital Media, Technology and Society Conference |
| March | 23-25 | Boston | US | The Power of Narrative conference |
| March | 30-1 | Boston | US | Journalism unConference |
| April | 11-15 | Perugia | Italy | International Journalism Conference |
| April | 13-14 | Austin | US | ISOJ International Symposium on Online Journalism |
| April | 19-22 | Montreal | Canada | The International Conference on Narrative |
| April | 21 | Montreal | Canada | Data Visualization on Mobile Devices workshop |
| May | 3-4 | Accra | Ghana | UNESCO World Press Freedom Day |
| May | 10-11 | Montclair | US | Collaborative Journalism Summit |
| May | 16-18 | Toronto | Canada | RightsCon journalism security conference |
| May | 24-27 | Mechelen | Belgium | Dataharvest European investigative journalism symposium |
| May | 30-1 | Oakland | US | Code for America summit |
Project funding:
| Deadline | Fund |
|---|---|
| Rolling | MisinfoCon micro-grants |
| Rolling | Solutions Journalism Network Freelance Fund |
| Rolling | Ukraine Media Development Fund |
| February | International Fact-Checking Network Fact Forward funding |
| February | Community Listening and Engagement Fund |
| February | "Finding Common Ground" engagement project funding |
| February | Digital Lab Africa grants for multimedia projects |
| March | MENA prize for media entrepreneurship |
