Tips on covering police misinformation
Greetings, hacks and hackers! Our partners MisinfoCon and MuckRock recently published their Police Misinformation Tipsheet as well as a recording of the panel from last month.
You can bookmark the guide on MuckRock or download it from MisinfoCon.
Worth a read:
- Popular Science wrote about common ways election graphics can be misleading, such as deceptive axis lines and unclear maps
- Google is distributing $1 billion to news publishers around the globe over the next three years to be able to republish news content in a new Google News tool, but how does that make sense business-wise?
- First Draft collected and analyzed almost 10,000 fact checks from January to June of this year to study how people searched for information about COVID-19
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- Anywhere - ProPublica, Temporary News Apps Developer
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- South Africa - The Citizen, TV & Lifestyle Journalist
- South Africa - The Citizen, Video Journalist
- UK - The Economist, Social Media Fellow
- US - Bloomberg, 2021 Summer Internships
- US - Center for Strategic & International Studies, Senior Developer
- US - CNBC, Graphic Artist
- US - Coda Media, Senior Reporter
- US - Indianapolis Business Journal, News Designer & Graphic Artist
- US - Lookout Santa Cruz, Visuals & Creative Services Producer
- US - New York Times, COVID-19 Data Acquisition Developer
- US - Philadelphia Inquirer, Digital Editor
- US - ProPublica, Temporary Local Data Reporter
- US - Repustar, Researcher
- US - Sacramento Bee, Engagement Journalist
- US - Science Magazine/AAAS, Interactive Graphics Editor
Upcoming events:
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Other opportunities:
- December 1, Harvard fellowship in journalism innovation
- Rolling deadline, Funding to cover Covid in Black Sea countries
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