Take your Hacks/Hackers adventures online
Hello, hacks and hackers! The Institute for Nonprofit News is hosting an online conference this Tuesday and Wednesday for anyone interested in nonprofit news media and public service journalism.
And Hacks/Hackers London is hosting their latest meetup online. if you are a local organizer who would like to remote events, please get in touch. H/H has a paid Zoom account for local groups who want to meet online.
The week ahead:
- London is talking about online health and storytelling
Worth a read:
- This folks at Nightingale, a data visualization journal, wrote about how to pick the right fonts for data visualizations from a technical, typographical perspective.
- GIJN’s free webinar this week will dig into pandemic-related data, and will air in English, Russian and Arabic.
- The Knight Foundation is starting a new weekly show called Informed & Engaged, and its inaugural episode will discuss dismantling systemic racism in journalism.
Job openings:
- Anywhere - Web Publishing Intern, OCCRP
- Anywhere - Front-End Developer, Rest of World
- Anywhere - Data Reporter, Pittsburgh Media Partnership
- South Africa - Communications Intern, Wits Justice Project
- South Africa - Journalist, Wits Justice Project
- UK - Digital Production Journalist, The Telegraph
- UK - Senior Digital Production Journalist, The Telegraph
- UK - Head of Audience, The Independent
- US - Digital Journalist, Spectrum Networks
- US - Data Acquisition Developer, New York Times
- US - Social Editor, New York Times
- US - Data Journalist, World Resources Institute
- US - Data Reporter, Boston University
Upcoming events:
- June 16-17, Online, INN at Home
- June 24-27, Online, Global Fact 7
- June 25-28, Online, Allied Media Conference
- July 16-17, Online, SRCCON
- Aug 5-9, Online, NABJxNAHJ Convention
- 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 23-27, Boise, US, Environmental Journalism Conference
- Oct 1-16, Online, Online News Association Conference
- Nov 5-8, Mechelen, Belgium, EIJC & Dataharvest
- Dec 4-6, Austin, US, Journalism & Women Symposium
- TBD, TBD, AAJA Conference
Other opportunities:
- June 15, Data journalism award on Amazon Forest coverage
- July 15, ADAMI Media Prize for Cultural Diversity in Eastern Europe
- Rolling deadline, National Geographic grants to cover COVID-19
- Rolling deadline, FIJ grant for Americans to cover COVID-19
- Rolling deadline, IWMF relief grant for COVID-19 struggles
- Rolling deadline, ECFJ grants for stories on elections, AI, disinformation, etc.
- Rolling deadline, Ukraine Media Development Fund
- Rolling deadline, Contest fees for submitting solutions stories
- Rolling deadline, Fund for Environmental Journalism Rapid Response Grants
