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New grant for investigative projects

The Google News Initiative and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism are partnering to create The Data-Driven Reporting Project which offers financial and training support for journalists working on document-based investigative projects. The $2 million fund is open to support projects that serve local and/or underrepresented communities in

Samantha Sunne Apr 5, 2022

MisinfoCon at IJF

Some news, hacks and hackers! Our partner org MisinfoCon will be presenting at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy. The IJF is returning April 6 to 10 and it is free to attend in person. Happening this week: * Nairobi is virtually meeting up Worth a read: * A communications professor

Samantha Sunne Mar 29, 2022

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

Samantha Sunne Mar 22, 2022

NICAR is back

Greetings, hacks and hackers! NICAR, the biggest data journalism conference in the US, met for the first time in person since early 2020. You can find resources from sessions here about learning R, JavaScript, web scraping and more. Worth a read: * Project Oasis is a collaborative project from UNC, the

Samantha Sunne Mar 15, 2022

Take Bellingcat’s survey on open source tools

Welcome to another week, hacks and hackers! Bellingcat is conducting a survey to find out more about which open source tools journalists are currently using so they can better know what kinds of tools to develop moving forward. The survey takes about 10 minutes to respond, and two respondents will

Samantha Sunne Mar 1, 2022

MisinfoCon and MozFest are here

Hello, hacks and hackers! Our partners at MisinfoCon are holding their first event since early 2020. It's part of MozFest Plaza, which is itself part of MozFest 2022. It's still not too late to join them online. Worth a read: * Creating a diverse and inclusive environment

Samantha Sunne Mar 1, 2022

The Sigma Awards are open for entries

Hello, hacks and hackers! The deadline to submit 2021 data journalism projects to the Sigma Awards is January 14th. The Sigma Awards highlight the best data journalism projects around the world, and this year is its third iteration. Worth a read: * The Institute for Nonprofit News and its partners raised

Samantha Sunne Jan 7, 2022

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