Fellowships, funds and foundations for journalism

By Samantha Sunne

May 14, 2017

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Greetings, hacks and hackers! We have more updates from our MisinfoCon project - we’re offering small $1,000 micro grants for projects that fight misinformation. Send in your ideas!

Besides that, we’ve got exciting new funding opportunities from ICFJ, the Solutions Journalism Network, and other orgs that support media innovation. Skip to the bottom for more 👇

The week ahead:

  • Venice is holding a meetup on Growth Hacking
  • IRE in Missouri is holding its weekly open lab

Worth a read:

  • The Pudding, a blog on graphics, published a guide to what the author calls “scrollytelling” (The Pudding)
  • The New York Times describes keeping up with the times in a profile of Story[X], its replacement for the NYT R&D Lab (NiemanLab)
  • Paper newspaper circulation has grown steadily in India while it has declined in other countries, and local reporting is on of the reasons why (CNN)

Job openings:

Country Employer Opening
Brazil BuzzFeed Video producer/editor
Multiple ICIJ Connected data fellow
Multiple Google Project Shield Regional technical evangelist
Hong Kong South China Morning Post Infographic designer
South Africa WITS University Journalism lecturer
UK Express Technology reporter
USA Mississippi Today Database manager
USA Open Society Foundations Communications officer
USA Reuters Website editor

Upcoming events:

Month Day City Country Event
May 15-20 San Salvador El Salvador Forum for Central American Journalism
May 18-20 Hamburg Germany International Press Institute World Congress on media freedom in the digital age
May 18-21 Mechelen Belgium Dataharvest, the European Investigative Journalism Conference
May 23-25 Lima Peru Exquisite Corpses, a workshop on journalism projets
May 25 - 27 Lviv Ukraine Lviv Media Forum on digital revolution in media
June 3-4 Toronto Canada Local news and its future
June 7-9 Durban South Africa World News Media Congress
June 15-18 Detroit USA Allied Media Conference
June 19-21 Bonn Germany Global Media Forum on identity and diversity
June 20-23 Portland USA Open Source Bridge
June 21-22 Phoenix USA INN Days, business training for nonprofit newsrooms
June 21-23 Vienna Austria Global Editors Network summit
June 22-25 Phoenix USA Investigative Reporters & Editors IRE Conference
July 5-7 Madrid Spain Global Fact-Checking Summit
July 6-7 Dublin Ireland European Data and Computational Journalism Conference
August 17-19 Denver USA WordCamp for Publishers, a Wordpress event
August 31-1 Grahamstown South Africa Highway Africa conference on media, accountability and local governance
October 4-5 New York USA Future of Storytelling Summit
October 13-14 Evanston USA Computer + Journalism Symposium

Project funding:

Deadline Name Organization Description
Rolling MisinfoCon micro-grant MisinfoCon Small grants for experimental projects that fight misinformation
Rolling Freelance Fund Solutions Journalism Network Small travel stipends for reporters working on “solutions journalism”
May GIJC 17 Fellowship GIJN Travel stipend for the GIJC Conference in Johannesburg
June Collaborative journalism grant Center for Cooperative Media Grants for journalism collaborations
June Social Innovation Fellowship Chicago Ideas Week Funding and networking for entrepreneurs tackling social challenges
June TruthBuzz ICFJ Cash prize for creative solutions to fact-checking
July Next Journalism Prize Nieman Foundation Funding for innovative journalism project in Europe
July FoST Prize Future of Storytelling Monetary award for innovative and cutting-edge storytelling projects
September INN Days reimbursement INN Travel stipends for INN member newsrooms traveling to INN Days in Phoenix

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