New jobs and events in the Hacks/Hackers space

By Samantha Sunne

Apr 9, 2017

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Greetings, hacks and hackers! The website is still powering full steam ahead, as are some exciting new tools from the team at MisinfoCon. Check out this new blog post by Christa Field, the head designer on the website team at Alley.

Worth a read:

  • Germany is taking a broad approach to the fake news problem: the legislature may soon pass a law to make it illegal (WaPo)
  • The AP, which has been on the forefront of news automation, released a report detailing best practices (NiemanLab)
  • Recode posits that journalists should move backward, from social media to email, as a way to avoid being “beholden to social networks” (Recode)

Job openings: * Europe: * Times of London has an opening for a data journalist * Buzzfeed is taking applications for a software engineer intern * North America: * CQ Roll Call is hiring a graphics editor and * Sunlight Foundation is looking for a Storyteller for its Open Cities project * Ball State University is seeking a professor of Emerging Media Design & Development * Toronto Star has an opening for a digital product developer * Reveal is looking for a front-end developer * Boston Globe has an open position for a newsroom developer * Axios is hiring a systems architect and technical product manager * Better Government Association is looking for a graphic designer * U.S. News is looking for a full-stack developer * Gannett is seeking a design technologist * Scripps has an opening for a CAR producer * Anywhere: * The Coral Project is looking for a node JS developer

Upcoming events:

Month Day City Country Event
April 12 New York USA Conversation series on Design’s Impact on Today’s Political and Media Landscape
April 14 Moscow Russia Media Forum on 3D Journalism
April 15-16 Austin USA ISOJ, the International Symposium on Online Journalism
April 24-25 Boston USA OpenVis Conf
May 1-2 Amman Jordan Arab Media Forum
May 1-4 Jakarta Indonesia UNESCO’s conference for World Press Freedom Day
May 4-6 Galway Ireland MoJoCon, the Mobile Journalism Conference
May 5-6 Madrid Spain Digital tools workshop at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
May 13–14 San Francisco USA Come & Play audio storytelling hackathon hosted by BuzzFeed and audiosear.ch
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 25 - 27 Lviv Ukraine Lviv Media Forum on digital revolution in media
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

Funding opportunities:

Deadline Name Organization Topic
April 10 Journalism 360 Challenge Knight Foundation Virtual Reality and immersive storytelling
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