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