Welcome, hacks and hackers. We would like to mourn the passing of Siyabonga Africa, a co-founder of the Hacks/Hackers Johannesburg group and a leader in the Hacks/Hackers Africa community.

Siya was active in Hacks/Hackers for almost 10 years, while advocating for news innovation as a leader at Code for Africa and the South Africa Media Innovation Program. He will be enormously missed.

Worth a read:

• This GIJN guide on personal archiving includes tips for how to archive source files during an investigation, and includes resources for preserving articles, videos and podcasts.
• In an effort to provide more transparency behind its algorithms, Google introduced an “About this result” panel for most results to explain how the result is relevant to your search.
• The blog Dirty Data Science has tutorials for how to predict missing values and work with non-normalized strings when doing machine-learning tasks in Python.

Jobs:

• Anywhere - Deputy Editor, The Fuller Project
• UK - Head of UX Architecture, Dow Jones
• UK - Data Journalist, GlobalData
• UK - Data Journalist, Tech Monitor
• UK - SEO Analyst, The Telegraph
• US - Innovative Story Formats Editor, Barron’s
• US - Data Reporter, THE CITY
• US - Data Visual Reporter, Delaware News Journal
• US - Web Design Manager, EdSource
• US - Data Reporter, Houston Chronicle
• US - Social Media Editor/Producer, ICIJ
• US - News Graphics Developer, Industry Dive
• US - Data & Graphics Journalist, LA Times
• US - Graphics Editor, Law360
• US - Analytics Editor, McClatchy
• US - Data Producer, McClatchy
• US - Data Visual Journalist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• US - Associate Data Editor, The Trace
• US - Visual Storytelling Editor, WSJ

Upcoming events:

• Aug 11-13, Online, SRCCON
• Aug 18-21, Online, NABJ Conference
• Aug 24-28, Online, AAJA Conference
• Aug 26-28, Ukraine, Lviv Media Forum
• Sep 28-30, Taiwan, World News Media Congress 2021
• Sep 29 - Oct 2, France, Assises Internationales du Journalisme de Tours
• Oct 3-5, Africa/Online, African Investigative Journalism Conference
• Nov 1-5, Online, GIJN Conference

Other opportunities:

• Rolling deadline, Pitch freelance stories in US news deserts to Parachute
• Rolling deadline, Funding from Google to fact-check vaccine misinformation
• Rolling deadline, Funding to cover Covid in Black Sea countries
• Rolling deadline, IWMF relief grant for COVID-19 struggles
• Rolling deadline, Eyebeam grants for artistic contributions to journalism