Hello, hacks and hackers! The News Product Alliance, in conjunction with OpenNews, has announced a new event for the intersection of product thinkers and news producers.

The inaugural News Product Alliance Summit will take place online next March, after NICAR, the Knight Media Forum and MozFest.

Worth a read:

• The NewsQ Initiative brought together journalists, media scholars and platform technologists on panels to discuss the algorithmic processes that decide which news articles to prioritize online.
• This year, journalists unearthed several problematic consequences from algorithm-driven decision making, like Google automatically connecting searches for Black, Asian and Latina girls to porn and police choosing who to search based on arbitrary traits decided by police analysts.
• A U.S. Supreme Court case could make web scraping illegal, so The Markup wrote a court brief explaining how web scraping is vital to data/investigative journalism, and therefore vital to democracy.

Job postings:

• Anywhere - Director of People and Culture, City Bureau
• Anywhere - Data Journalist, The Economist
• Anywhere - Multiple UX/UI roles, Wall Street Journal
• China - Data Reporter, Financial Times
• UK - Trainee Data Journalist, The Economist
• UK - Head of Newsletters, Financial Times
• UK - SEO Reporter, Metro.co.uk
• UK - Gaming Editor, Radio Times
• UK - Social Media Editor, Reach
• US - Director of Audience, Center for Public Integrity
• US - Data Journalism Professor, Columbia University
• US - Data Science/Machine Learning Engineer, Hearken
• US - Exec Producer of Investigative/Special Projects, KPRC
• US - Multiple tech roles, NPR
• US - Multiple product/data/design roles, Substack

Upcoming events:

• Feb 19, Online, Computation + Journalism Symposium
• March, Online, NICAR
• March 1-3, Online, Knight Media Forum
• March 8, Online, MozFest
• March 30-31, Online, News Product Alliance Summit

Other opportunities:

• 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, Fund for Environmental Journalism Rapid Response