It’s almost 2022, hacks and hackers! The first conference on our list for next year, NICAR, has announced it is going hybrid.

Investigative Reporters and Editors is offering scholarships for both the in-person and virtual events.

Worth a read:

• Nieman Lab published their annual list of predictions for what the next year holds for journalism, with topics like remote work, industry inequality and digital subscription growth.
• This Towards Data Science writeup explores how to extract song data from Spotify’s API and use Python to do exploratory data analysis and build song recommendation algorithms.
• It’s a struggle to articulate general rules when creating data visualizations, so Nightingale found a happy-medium between establishing rules and accepting exceptions by creating network diagrams for questions like “Do I need a zero in my chart’s scale?”

Jobs:

• Anywhere - Manager, Regional Editors, GIJN
• Anywhere - Full-Stack Developer, ICIJ
• Anywhere - Support Engineer, Tiny News Collective
• France - Product Manager, AFP
• UK - Audience Engagement Lead, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
• UK - Impact/Audience Editor, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
• UK - Sr. Data Engineer, Financial Times
• UK - Data Viz Developer, Global Data
• UK - Engagement Manager, New Scientist
• UK - Social Media Editor, New Scientist
• US - Data Analyst, American Journalism Project
• US - Marketing Designer, The Atlantic
• US - Product Designer, The Atlantic
• US - Sr. Product Designer, The Atlantic
• US - Local News Professor, Columbia University
• US - Decentralization Sr. Fellow, EFF
• US - Information Justice Professor, Northeastern University
• US - Misinformation Reporter, NYT
• US - Investigative Data Reporter, TheGrio
• US - Knight-Wallace Fellow, University of Michigan

Upcoming events:

• March 3-6, 2022, Atlanta, USA, NICAR
• March 7-10, 2022, Online, MozFest
• March 10-11, 2022, Online, News Product Alliance Summit
• April 1-2, 2022, Austin, USA, International Symposium on Online Journalism
• April 6-10, 2022, Perugia, Italy, International Journalism Festival
• June 22-23, 2022, Minneapolis, USA, SRCCON

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, Eyebeam grants for artistic contributions to journalism