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The RISJ Digital News Report is out

The Oxford Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism published its annual Digital News Report last week, which interviewed 93,000 respondents from 46 markets across the globe to learn more on how audiences are consuming news. To read highlights from the report, RISJ created a Twitter thread here with data and takeaways from the study. Worth a read: Many younger people are turning to TikTok for their news. Reuters wrote about how content creators can monetize their news content on TikTok while job security at most major media orgs is dwindling.

AI Accountability Fellowships now open

Applications are now open for the 2023-2024 AI Accountability Fellowships, hosted by The AI Accountability Network at The Pulitzer Center! The fellowships are open to journalists around the world, and 10 fellows will be chosen to pursue an AI-related reporting project over 10 months. Fellows receive up to $20,000 to support their projects, and the deadline to apply is July 1. Worth a read: One of the events at this past weekend’s Media Party Chicago was a hackathon dedicated to using AI 4 News.

Join us at Media Party Chicago this weekend

This weekend, Media Party Chicago will gather entrepreneurs, journalists, developers and designers to talk about cutting-edge topics like synthetic media, generative AI, local news revitalization, misinformation and more. We are offering free tickets for Hacks/Hackers subscribers using the promo code: hackshackers. It’s not too late - join us in Chicago from June 8-10! Worth a read: The Africa Data Hub created several different publicly available online courses to teach data journalism fundamentals, including topics like a beginner’s guide to creating maps, an introduction to “interviewing” data and more!

Help UW researchers with this survey

The University of Washington, which often partners with us at H/H, is seeking experts in communication and misinformation response to understand how they would choose different response strategies given different conversation contexts on social media. To fill out the screener survey, click here. If selected, you would be asked to complete another 15-20 minute online survey and be rewarded with a $30 gift card. If you have questions about it, please contact rzhong98@uw.

Media Party Chicago schedule is live! AI and news speakers from AP, BBC, Hugging Face, many more

Media Party Chicago is coming up on June 8-10! The event includes workshops, lightning talks, a hackathon and more. The schedule is now live, with more than 70 speakers including from The Associated Press, BBC, Google, Hugging Face, Steamship, Open News, News Product Alliance, American Press Institute and many, many more. We are offering 20 free tickets for Hacks/Hackers subscribers using the promo code: hackshackers. Be quick! The free tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Apply to attend The Data Institute

If you’re looking to beef up your data, design and code skills, The Data Institute is open! The Center for Journalism & Democracy and the Ida B. Wells Society run this free, in-person workshop for two weeks in July. twttr.widgets.createTweet( '1656750055263465487', document.getElementById('tweet-container-1656750055263465487'), ); The program offers travel costs to and from D.C. along with a $1,000 stipend for participants. Applications are open through May 24. Worth a read:

Hacks/Hackers is hiring a partnerships coordinator

Hacks/Hackers is hiring! We’re looking for a Partnerships Coordinator for the Analysis and Response for Trust Tool. twttr.widgets.createTweet( '1655691683928117249', document.getElementById('tweet-container-1655691683928117249'), ); The ARTT Project is a National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator grant winner, and the new role will help manage relationships among the ARTT team as well as partners and stakeholders. Applications are open now and the start date is planned for mid-June. Worth a read: “Generative” AI, the tools that write text, are creating a lot of media buzz, but there are many (many) more potential uses for the technology.

Anika Gupta joins the Hacks/Hackers board

We are excited to announce that Anika Gupta is joining the Hacks/Hackers Board of Directors! twttr.widgets.createTweet( '1653425743156658178', document.getElementById('tweet-container-1653425743156658178'), ); Anika launched Hacks/Hackers India in 2012, where she worked as a journalist in New Delhi. She wrote a book about online communities, “How to Handle a Crowd,” and currently works as a business and product strategy consultant for news and social media startups. You can follow her on Twitter at @DigitalAnika.

New findings from the News Nerd Survey

A new installment of analysis from OpenNews’ News Nerd Survey is here, and this one hones in on the salaries of journalist-coder hybrids. They found that compensation is the top motivator for news nerds leaving jobs, and that the gender pay gap among coders remains stark. twttr.widgets.createTweet( '1648744023778115584', document.getElementById('tweet-container-1648744023778115584'), ); Read overall findings from the survey here, which had 603 respondents, mostly from the U.S. Worth a read:

A new round of WikiCred projects

The WikiCred project supports research, software projects and Wikimedia events that focus on improving information literacy and credibility on the internet and beyond. New WikiCred projects for 2023 are being announced regularly on the MisinfoCon blog. twttr.widgets.createTweet( '1648403470746288136', document.getElementById('tweet-container-1648403470746288136'), ); WikiCred offers microgrants to individuals and teams for pilot projects on how to support credibility on the internet using Wikimedia. Happening this week: Nigeria is training journalists on social inclusion Worth a read: