Happy new year, hacks and hackers! Journalism groups including MuckRock are still putting out their predictions for the next 365 days:

Worth a read:

• The 2021 State of CSS site collected survey responses from nearly 1,000 designers around the world to analyze and visualize how CSS innovation will look in the future.
• Find out the pros and cons between working at a big corporation versus a small startup as a data professional in this article from Towards Data Science.
• The COVID-19 Online Visualization Collection, or COVIC, project is an archive of published data visualizations related to the pandemic, including a searchable database organized by metrics like publisher, country, language and subject.

Jobs:

• Canada - Senior Editor, Towards Data Science
• Japan - Tech Editor, Bloomberg
• US - Data Journalist, Boston Globe
• US - Design and Presentation Director, Buffalo News
• US - Multiple data viz roles, Graphicacy
• US - Android Engineer, KPCC/LAist
• US - Product Director, KPCC/LAist
• US - Investigative Climate Data Journalist, KQED
• US - Digital Design and UX Director, NYPR
• US - Data Reporter, San Francisco Chronicle
• US - Full Stack Software Engineer, WBEZ

Upcoming events:

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