Teaching, gathering and working remotely
Hello again, hacks and hackers! Many of our upcoming events, including some local Hacks/Hackers meetups, have been canceled. Poynter is keeping an updated list, and we have updated the events in our newsletter below.
Luckily, technology and journalism are two fields that adapt well to staying home. This is a good time to brush up on tips for remote work, remote learning and even remote conferences.
Updated events:
- H/H London's March meetup is canceled
- Computation + Journalism Symposium is postponed; new dates have not been announced
- Power of Narrative is canceled
- SND is postponed; new dates have not been announced
- O’Reilly Strata Data & AI Conference is canceled
- Code Before the Vote Hackathon is canceled
- ISOJ has moved online
- AI for Good is postponed to September
- Midwest Journalism Conference is canceled
- Collaborative Journalism Summit has moved online
- Data + Narrative Workshop has moved online
Worth a read:
- A lot of workers are being asked to work from home if they can. On Twitter, The LA Times' Ben Welsh asked fellow news nerds to put together some tips (Ben Welsh)
- Journalist, designer and professor Lisa Waananen Jones put together a few short, salient tips for teaching a class online, if you haven't done it before (Lisa Waananen Jones)
- If you find yourself suddenly on a distributed team, Slack has a detailed guide for staying in touch and staying productive with colleagues abroad (Slack)
Job openings:
Location | Employer | Opening |
---|---|---|
Anywhere | NerdWallet | Data Writer |
China | SCMP Hearst Publications | Front-End Web Developer |
Japan | Wall Street Journal | Tech & Business Reporter |
Singapore | BBC | Digital Journalist |
South Africa | Human Sciences Research Council | Freelance Data Journalists |
UK | BBC | Digital News Editor |
UK | Reuters | Digital Producer |
UK | The Times & The Sunday Times | Data & Interactive Journalist |
UK | The Times & The Sunday Times | Data Visualization Journalist |
US | Buzzfeed | News Data Intern |
US | MarketWatch | Automation Editor |
US | MarketWatch | Markets Data Automation Specialist |
US | Memphis Business Journal | Designer |
US | The Markup | Surveillance & Data Exploitation Reporter |
US | The Markup | Internet Infrastructure & the Environment Reporter |
US | University of Minnesota | Association Professor in Journalism |
US | New York Times | Data Governance Intern |
US | Wisconsin Watch | Narrow Margin Reporter |
Upcoming events:
Month | Day | City | Country | Event |
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March | 18-20 | Johannesburg | South Africa | JamFest |
March | 27-28 | Atlanta | US | NewsQ Hackathon |
April | 23-26 | Online | Online | International Symposium on Online Journalism |
May | 14-15 | Online | Online | Collaborative Journalism Summit |
May | 14-17 | Mechelen | Belgium | EIJC & Dataharvest |
May | 29-31 | Montreal | Canada | Canadian Associations of Journalists Conference |
June | 2-4 | Boston | US | Data + Narrative Workshop |
June | 2-5 | Seoul | South Korea | International Anti-Corruption Conference |
June | 9-12 | Heredia | Costa Rica | RightsCon |
June | 18-21 | National Harbor | US | IRE Conference |
June | 24-27 | Oslo | Norway | Global Fact 7 |
September | 23-25 | Geneva | Switzerland | AI for Good Summit |
TBA | TBA | Boston | US | Computation + Journalism Symposium |
TBA | TBA | DC | US | SND Conference |
Other opportunities:
Deadline | Fund |
---|---|
March 30 | Google News Initiative fellowship for Europeans |
April 3-5 | Information Ethics Roundtable in Boston |
Rolling | ECFJ grants for stories on elections, AI, disinformation, etc. |
Rolling | Solutions Journalism Network Freelance Fund |
Rolling | Ukraine Media Development Fund |
Rolling | Contest fees for submitting solutions stories |