Welcome, hacks and hackers! If you feel like joining some of your fellow hacks and hackers this week, Taipei is holding an online “Epidemic Data Gathering” on the 31st.

The Nigeria group is also holding a free workshop on R. Both are still open for registration!

Happening this week:

• Nigeria is learning the fundamentals of R
• Taipei is analyzing pandemic data

Worth a read:

• The Knight Foundation is hosting a virtual symposium in early November examining the impact of the Internet on communication, connection, and democracy over the past three decades.
• Investigative Reporters & Editors just held its first DBEI Symposium, talking about diversity, belonging, equity and inclusion. You can find some of the presentations and other lessons learned at the hashtag #DBEISymposium.
• A study from researchers at the University of Minnesota found that local news gets drowned out by stories with national relevance on Facebook due to algorithms and media consolidation.

Jobs:

• Anywhere - Researchers, Global Voices
• Anywhere - NewsMatch Program Manager, INN
• Anywhere - Social Media Producer, URL Media
• Asia - Audience Engagement Editor, Rest of World
• China - China Editor, Rest of World
• China - China Reporter, Rest of World
• Nigeria - Sr. Journalist, BBC Disinformation Unit
• Nigeria - Journalist, BBC Disinformation Unit
• Tanzania - Project Manager, BBC Media Action
• Tanzania - Research Officer, BBC Media Action
• UAE - North Africa/Middle East Bureau Chief, WSJ
• US - Data Journalism Professor, American University
• US - Sr. Editor for Multimedia Storytelling, Boston Globe
• US - Engagement Reporter, City Bureau
• US - Network Resource & Engagement Coordinator, City Bureau
• US - Data Scientist, Human Rights Data Analysis Group
• US - Data Graphics Developer, Insider

Upcoming events:

• Nov 1-5, Online, GIJN Conference
• Nov 3-4, Online, News Philanthropy Summit
• April 1-2, 2022, Austin, USA, International Symposium on Online Journalism
• June 22-23, 2022, Minneapolis, USA, SRCCON

Other opportunities:

• October 27, Investigation grants for environmental journalism in the EU
• Rolling deadline, Pitch freelance stories in US news deserts to Parachute
• Rolling deadline, Funding from Google to fact-check vaccine misinformation
• Rolling deadline, Eyebeam grants for artistic contributions to journalism