The Buenos Aires Media Party is on!
Hello, hacks and hackers! H/H Buenos Aires is virtually hosting their Media Party conference from September 16-18, and it’s open to anyone around the globe.
The annual Media Party brings a couple thousand journalists each year to talk tech and journalism, and you can watch their teaser video here.
Happening this week:
- Uganda is talking about the significance of open data
Worth a read:
- ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine partnered up to do a longform feature modeling how climate refugees might move across international borders as temperatures rise and crops fail
- Visualising Data’s Andy Kirk started a podcast/video series called Explore Explain that interviews notable data viz designers on the details behind how they created and published some of their best work
- Caroline Chen & Ash Ngu of ProPublica published an in-depth explanation for how to understand the state of the pandemic thru COVID numbers, like knowing a test positivity rate below 5% means testing is adequate
Job openings:
- Anywhere - Startups Lab Senior Program Manager, LION-GNI
- Anywhere - Head of Newsletters, Insider
- Anywhere - Data Engineer, California Reporting Project
- France - East Africa Reporter, Africa Intelligence
- Israel - Senior Journalist, BBC
- South Africa - Digital Business Writer, The Citizen
- UK - Economics Reporter, Bloomberg
- UK - Editorial SEO Analyst, The Telegraph
- US - Data/Research Assistant, American Public Media Group
- US - Product Lead - The Atlantic
- US - Web & Graphics Editor, Better Government Association
- US - Data Reporter, Colorado Public Media
- US - Data Reporter, CPR News
- US - Deputy Special Projects Reporter, Consumer Reports
- US - Data Journalist, CNBC
- US - Data and Interactives Editor, Dallas Morning News
- US - Investigative Reporter, ICIJ
- US - Director of Digital and Enterprise Content, KPRC
- US - Senior Digital Producer, Spectrum News
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:
- July 31, European journalists under 30 can apply to attend a workshop
- August 1, Apply for Fetisov Journalism Awards
- 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
