Learn about security, infographics or misinformation at a H/H event this week
Greetings, hacks and hackers, and welcome to another week packed full of local H/H events. If you're in New York, Singapore, Philly, Sao Paolo, Abuja or Lagos, check out the new skills you can learn this month:
The week ahead:
- Sao Paolo is discussing data and graphics
- Miami and IRE are holding their regular open labs
- Philadelphia is holding flash talks on misinformation
- New York is discussing digital security
- Singapore is making graphics with Tableau
- Nigeria is hacking infographics
Worth a read:
- Bellingcat, a social verification company in the UK, put together an enormous list of tools for vetting images and social media posts (Bellingcat)
- If a Google user subscribes to a news outlet, articles from that outlet will start to appear higher in their search results, Google is expected to announce (Bloomberg)
- For profit, or nonprofit? No matter their goals, news startups are having to decide (MediaShift)
Job openings:
| Location | Employer | Opening |
|---|---|---|
| US | New Yorker | Data journalist |
| US | Financial Times | Data visualization journalist |
| US | ICIJ | Front-end developer |
| US | Marshall Project | Digital projects editor |
| US | Deseret News | Software engineer |
Upcoming events:
| Month | Day | City | Country | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March | 21-23 | Bristol | UK | Data for Development Festival |
| 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 |
| March | MENA prize for media entrepreneurship |
| March | #Disrupt Journalism Education fellowship |
| March | Funding for anti-misinformation tools in Brazil |
| April | Open Society Initiative for West Africa |
| April | Matter Cohort for media entrepreneurs |
