Welcome to the new year, hacks and hackers! If you were busy celebrating last week, we shared a list of some of the best roundups from 2020.

Worth a read:

• Researchers from the Reuters Institute published a list of 20 findings from news-related studies this past year that will be relevant going into the new year
• A Towards Data Science blogpost goes over how a data scientist used open source NLP techniques to gather and analyze over 50,000 recent tweets about 2020, and found that most tweets seemed to reflect positively on the year
• Data viz professionals at the S-H-O-W conference talked about how they balance design rules with creativity when creating data visualizations

Job postings:

• Singapore - Research Editor, Dow Jones
• US - Data Visualization Developer, Chicago Sun-Times
• US - Interactives Developer, Philadelphia Inquirer
• US - Infographic Artist, San Antonio Express-News
• US - Data/Computational Journalism Lecturer, University of Maryland

Upcoming events:

• Feb 19, Online, Computation + Journalism Symposium
• March 3-5, 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, FIJ grant for Americans to cover COVID-19
• Rolling deadline, IWMF relief grant for COVID-19 struggles
• Rolling deadline, Eyebeam grants for artistic contributions to journalism