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Tools and tips from IJF 22

Hello, hacks and hackers! The International Journalism Festival took place in person last week in Perugia, Italy.

A lot of the sessions, tweets and recaps can be found on the conference website.

Worth a read:

Moksha Data Studio is a new project created to help make data visualizations for government agencies, nonprofits and academia, and they also have a weekly newsletter to spotlight data visualizations.
GIJN talked to some South African reporters to learn about the challenges they face when reporting on their region, including financial obstacles, unresponsive officials, data vacuums and a culture of fear and harassment.
For World Health Day, Flourish Visualization Studio visualized air pollution around the world in a series of interactive data visualizations.

Upcoming events:

April 13-May 18, Online, AP Local News AI Readiness Workshops
May 19-20, Chicago, US, Collaborative Journalism Summit
May 19-22, Mechelen, Belgium, Dataharvest
June 6-10, Online, RightsCon
June 20-21, Bonn, Germany, DW Global Media Forum
June 22-24, Minneapolis, US, SRCCON
June 22-25, Oslo, Norway, Global Fact Conference
June 23-26, Denver, US, IRE
June 27-30, Honolulu, US, EWC International Media Conference
June 27-July 1, Medellín, Colombia, World Conference of Science Journalists
July 8-13, Shanghai, China, World Journalism Education Congress
July 15-17, Couthures-sur-Garonne, France, Festival International de Journalisme
August 25-27, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Media Party

Job postings: