Welcoming H/H Colombo, Sri Lanka
Hello, hacks and hackers! Hacks/Hackers Colombo, Sri Lanka, hosted their first event last week on Zoom. Their guest shared tips on how to solve journalism problems with technology.
You can also follow them on Twitter and Facebook. Welcome to the H/H family, Sri Lanka!
Worth a read:
- Australia is establishing a mandatory code that may be a template for other nations to compel tech giants to share ad revenue with news producers
- Young Millennials and Gen Z are turning to Instagram for news more than any other source, according to new research by the Reuters Institute
- The amount of Coronavirus misinformation is large, but its effects on people's actions may be small, Irish researchers found
Job openings:
- Haiti - Media Coordinator, ICFJ
- India - Journalist, BBC World Service
- Nigeria - News Editor, Gist Nigeria
- Taiwan - News Assistant/Researcher, NYT
- US - Data Reporter, Arizona Republic
- US - Data and Visuals Editor, CNN
- US - Social Media Editor, Forbes
- US - Data Journalist/News Apps Dev, KQED
- US - Investigative Editor, KQED
- US - Data Journalist, NBC News
- US - Senior Software Engineer, Scroll
Upcoming events:
- Aug 5-9, Online, NABJxNAHJ Convention
- Aug 9-15, Online, AAJA Conference
- Aug 27-30, Online, IRE Conference
- Sep 16-17, Online, Media Party 2020
- Sep 23-27, Online, Environmental Journalism Conference
- Sep - Nov, Online, EIJC & Dataharvest
- October, Online, African Investigative Journalism Conference
- October 23-25, Online, Association of LGBTQ journalists (NLGA)
- Oct 1-16, Online, Online News Association Conference
- Dec 4-6, Austin, US, Journalism & Women Symposium
Other opportunities:
- August 11, Training from RFE/RL for Eastern/SE European journalists
- August 12, Apply for the Google News Initiative Innovation Challenge
- Rolling deadline, Apply for funds for a solutions journalism freelancer
- Rolling deadline, Funding to cover Covid in Black Sea countries
- 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
- Rolling deadline, Ukraine Media Development Fund
- Rolling deadline, Fund for Environmental Journalism Rapid Response