The Lenfest Institute is announcing its inaugural News Philanthropy Summit - a virtual conference focused on fundraising in news.

The conference will take place from November 3-4 this year, is free to attend, and open to all.

Worth a read:

• Storytelling With Data compiled their top data visualization articles from the past few years, including posts on the difference between histograms and bar charts, what a line chart is and how to create a shaded range chart in Excel.
• Pass the Mic is a new Google News Initiative funded project by Gannett that aims to connect journalists with expert sources from underrepresented communities, and are currently accepting source nominations to build its database.
• GIJN is creating a 10 group guide to investigating organized crime around the world, and their latest group explores how to investigate mafia states and kleptocracies with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project’s publisher.

Jobs:

• Anywhere - Assistant Reporter & Researcher, They Got Acquired
• Chile - Sr. Correspondent, Reuters
• Singapore - Asia Energy Correspondent, Reuters
• US - Product Manager, Al Jazeera
• US - Development Analyst, American Journalism Project
• US - Part-Time Investigative Journalist, Documenting COVID-19
• US - Web Design Manager, EdSource
• US - Data Analyst/Campaigner, Environmental Investigation Agency
• US - Investigative Health Care Data Reporter, inewsource
• US - Journalism & Design Professor, The New School
• US - Audience Engagement Editor, New York Daily News
• US - Data Science Analyst, Pew Research Center
• US - Operations Assistant, Local Media Project, Solutions Journalism Network
• US - Digital Designer, Star Tribune
• US - Data Reporting Internship, Wall Street Journal
• US - Internships, Washington Post Engineering
• US - Web Developer, WJCT Public Media

Upcoming events:

• Sep 13-17, Online, Jamfest
• Sep 28-30, Taiwan, World News Media Congress 2021
• Sep 29 - Oct 2, France, Assises Internationales du Journalisme de Tours
• Oct 1-2, Online, Cumbre Global sobre Desinformación
• Oct 3-5, Africa/Online, African Investigative Journalism Conference
• Oct 7-8, Online, Truth and Trust Online Conference
• Oct 14-15, Online, ONA Insights
• Nov 1-5, Online, GIJN Conference
• Nov 3-4, Online, News Philanthropy Summit
• April 1-2, Austin, USA, International Symposium on Online Journalism

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