What are your predictions for 2020?
Happy holidays, hacks and hackers! NiemanLab just released their annual roundup of journalism predictions for 2020. The topics include countering misinformation, unionizing newsrooms and increasing audience engagement.
In other news, Hacks/Hackers joined forces with the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism to award a grant to Subramaniam Vincent, director of the Journalism and Media Ethics Program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
Worth a read:
- At Hacks/Hackers meetups this year, Code for Africa awarded story grants to three teams of Nigerian journalists who plan to use the resources to produce stories on infant and maternal mortality rates, problems girls face with education and challenges to living in Nigeria (BONews)
- Next time you play a board game, look closely to see what kind of data viz tactics board game designers employ to efficiently categorize information, tell a story and encourage engagement (Nightingale)
- Still under fire for refusing to remove disinformation, Facebook announced two programs to combat misinformation, including a global partnership with the Third Party Fact-Checking Network to start flagging Instagram posts that contain false information (Poynter)
Upcoming events:
| Month | Day | City | Country | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February | 18-20 | Chiang Mai | Thailand | Splice Asian Media Conference |
| March | 5-8 | New Orleans | US | NICAR Conference |
| March | 20-21 | Boston | US | Computation + Journalism Symposium |
| March | 20-22 | Boston | US | Power of Narrative |
| April | 1-5 | Perugia | Italy | International Journalism Conference |
| May | 14-17 | Mechelen | Belgium | EIJC & Dataharvest |
| 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 |
Job openings:
| Location | Employer | Opening |
|---|---|---|
| Anywhere | USA Today | Data Editor |
| Africa | Rest of World | Africa Editor |
| US | Boston Globe | News Designer/Developer |
| US | FiveThirtyEight | Part-Time Social Producer |
| US | NYT | Staff Editor - Statistical Modeling |
| US | Poynter | Multiple jobs |
| US | Rest of World | Audience Dev Lead |
| US | San Francisco Biz Times | Lead Designer |
| US | Seattle Times | Graphic Artist |
| US | University of Minnesota | Journalism Lecturer |
Other opportunities:
