Dozens of journalism/tech events this spring
Suggest editsHello, hacks and hackers! Are you interested in building a new skill set, meeting fellow news nerds or otherwise broadening your horizons? Check out our extensive list of Hacks/Hackers-type events at the bottom of this newsletter:
🎉 The #NICAR19 schedule is live --> https://t.co/no1Fstr50k
— IRE and NICAR (@IRE_NICAR) February 10, 2019
Which sessions/classes are you most excited to attend? pic.twitter.com/2Ptat2tAXD
Happening this week:
- Rabat has its first monthly meeting
- Singapore is promoting open data
- Benin, Lagos and Abuja are having their February meetups
Worth a read:
- BBC’s data team wrote a Medium post about how and why they use R’s ggplot2 package to create production-ready charts (Medium)
- There are so many ways for readers to get their news online in 2019, and NiemanLab looks at which news aggregation sites are trending upward (or downward) this year (NiemanLab)
- GIJN created yet another useful guide, on how to deal with property records around the globe (GIJN)
Over the past year the BBC's data journalists have fundamentally changed the way we produce graphics. Now we’ve open-sourced the tools we use for making production-ready visuals with #rstats and #ggplot.
— BBC News Graphics (@BBCNewsGraphics) February 1, 2019
Find out more here: https://t.co/G3DhkFfyQD
Upcoming events:
| Month | Day | City | Country | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February | 19-20 | Stanford | US | Data on Purpose |
| March | 4-8 | San Francisco | US | RSA Conference |
| March | 6-7 | Dubai | United Arab Emirates | WAN-IFRA Middle East Conference |
| March | 7-10 | Newport Beach | US | CAR Conference |
| March | 23 - 24 | Cairo | Egypt | Arab Data Journalist’s Network Conference |
| April | 1-2 | Vienna | Austria | Digital Media Europe |
| April | 1-5 | Valencia | Spain | Internet Freedom Festival |
| April | 4-5 | Gdańsk | Poland | Personal Democracy Forum |
| April | 3-7 | Perugia | Italy | International Journalism Festival |
| April | 5-6 | Kalmar | Sweden | GRAV Swedish Investigative Journalism Conference |
| April | 5-7 | Kuala Lumpur | Malaysia | World Conference on Media and Mass Communication |
| April | 8-10 | Lisbon | Portugal | IPTC Spring Meeting |
| April | 12-13 | Austin | US | International Symposium on Online Journalism |
| April | 30-1 | San Jose | US | Facebook Developer Conference |
| May | 2-3 | Addis Ababa | Ethiopia | UNESCO World Press Freedom Day |
| May | 13-17 | San Francisco | US | The Web Conference |
| May | 16-19 | Mechelen | Belgium | European Investigative Journalism Conference |
| May | 17-19 | Prague | Czech Republic | Wikimedia Hackathon |
| May | 24-28 | Washington, D.C. | US | ICA Conference |
| May | 27-28 | Bonn | Germany | DW Global Media Forum |
| June | 1-3 | Glasgow | UK | World News Media Conference |
| June | 11-14 | Tunis | Tunisia | RightsCon Tunis |
| June | 13-15 | Athens | Greece | GEN Summit |
| June | 13-16 | Houston | US | Investigative Reporters & Editors Conference |
| June | 19-21 | Cape Town | South Africa | Global Fact-Checking Summit |
| July | 19-21 | Toronto | Canada | International Conference on Social Media & Society |
Job openings:
| Location | Employer | Opening |
|---|---|---|
| South Africa | TRi Facts | Head of Education and Training |
| US | Atlantic Media | Senior Software Engineer |
| US | KERA/KXT | Producer, Think |
| US | Financial Times | Summer Intern - Data Visualization |
| US | Los Angeles Times | Senior Graphics and Data Viz Reporter for Investigations |
| US | NPR | Product Manager, Voice Platforms |
| US | Palm Beach Post | Data Reporting Intern |
| US | Pew Research Center | Research Assistant, Fact Tank |
| US | The Pudding | Summer Intern |
Other opportunities:
| Deadline | Fund |
|---|---|
| Rolling | Solutions Journalism Network Freelance Fund |
| Rolling | Ukraine Media Development Fund |
| Rolling | Contest fees for submitting solutions stories |
| March | Princeton Center for Digital Humanities postdoctoral fellowship |
| April | Data Journalism Awards for free trip to Athens for GEN Summit |