The year is almost over, hacks and hackers! NICAR, MozFest, and the Computation + Journalism Symposium have all announced they will be virtual next year.

MozFest is soliciting session proposals until November 24th, and NICAR until December 6th. If you’ve never been to these conferences before, 2021 is your year to get involved!

The week ahead:

• Nairobi is discussing geo journalism

Worth a read:

• With its wealth of data, Facebook’s engineering team was having a hard time finding specific datasets, so they built an in-house data discovery engine called Nemo that they wrote about in this blogpost
• Election polls showed Biden winning by a much larger margin than he did in the US presidential election, as well as predicting a Clinton win in 2016. This makes analysts wonder, do polls retain any value without reliability?
• A study published in New Media & Society examined how audiences perceive journalists compared to social media influencers, and found that audiences believe both have their autonomy compromised by the desire for profit from sponsors or advertisers

Job postings:

• Anywhere - Associate Social Producer, Doha Debates
• Anywhere - Visualization Developer, Flourish
• Southeast Asia - Editor in Chief, New Naratif
• UK - Reporter, DatacenterDynamics
• US - Designer, The Atlantic’s Experimental Storytelling Team
• US - Engineer, The Atlantic’s Experimental Storytelling Team
• US - Project Manager, The Atlantic’s Experimental Storytelling Team
• US - Visual Journalist, Axios
• US - Researcher, Futuro Media Group
• US - Community Engagement Producer, KQED
• US - Visual Designer, News Literacy Project
• US - Data Journalist, Virginia Public Access Project
• US - Digital News Risk Manager, Wall Street Journal
• US - Product Manager, Wall Street Journal
• US - Full Stack Developer, WBUR

Upcoming events:

• Sep - Nov, Online, EIJC / Dataharvest
• Dec 4-6, Online, Journalism & Women Symposium
• Feb 19, Online, Computation + Journalism Symposium
• March, Online, NICAR
• March 1-3, Online, Knight Media Forum
• March 8, Online, MozFest

Other opportunities:

• December 1, Harvard fellowship in journalism innovation
• December 18, Reynolds Journalism Institute fellowship
• 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