Welcome to 2021
Welcome to the new year, hacks and hackers! If you were busy celebrating last week, we shared a list of some of the best roundups from 2020.
Worth a read:
- Researchers from the Reuters Institute published a list of 20 findings from news-related studies this past year that will be relevant going into the new year
- A Towards Data Science blogpost goes over how a data scientist used open source NLP techniques to gather and analyze over 50,000 recent tweets about 2020, and found that most tweets seemed to reflect positively on the year
- Data viz professionals at the S-H-O-W conference talked about how they balance design rules with creativity when creating data visualizations
Job postings:
- Singapore - Research Editor, Dow Jones
- US - Data Visualization Developer, Chicago Sun-Times
- US - Interactives Developer, Philadelphia Inquirer
- US - Infographic Artist, San Antonio Express-News
- US - Data/Computational Journalism Lecturer, University of Maryland
Upcoming events:
- Feb 19, Online, Computation + Journalism Symposium
- March 3-5, Online, NICAR
- March 1-3, Online, Knight Media Forum
- March 8, Online, MozFest
- March 30-31, Online, News Product Alliance Summit
Other opportunities:
- Rolling deadline, Funding to cover Covid in Black Sea countries
- Rolling deadline, FIJ grant for Americans to cover COVID-19
- Rolling deadline, IWMF relief grant for COVID-19 struggles
- Rolling deadline, Eyebeam grants for artistic contributions to journalism
