Mentorship for Arabic media startups, and other opportunities

By Samantha Sunne

May 21, 2017

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Hope you had a good weekend, hacks and hackers. It’s been a long week for journalists, even for those not in the U.S.

Let’s see what Hacks/Hackers groups and our friends are up to in the coming week:

The week ahead:

Worth a read:

  • The J-school at UC Berkeley signed a deal with Amazon to stream its investigative documentaries, discovering a new revenue stream (NiemanLab)
  • The American Press Institute published a strategy study on forging successful collaborations between commercial and nonprofit media (American Press Institute)
  • Facebook’s attempt to cut down on fake news may have backfired, according to a review by the Guardian (Guardian)

Job openings:

Country Employer Opening
UK CNBC Deputy digital editor
UK The Economist Digital, Data & Social Journalism Fellowship
UK Office of National Statistics Data visualization producers
UK OpenCorporates Community and advocacy manager
US VentureBeat AI reporter
US Pew Research Center Motion graphics producer
US Vox/ProPublica Video fellow
US Dallas Morning News Computational journalist
US Advance Digital Web analyst
US News Deeply Chief product officer
US Timeline Head of Audience
US Poynter Visual journalism fellowship

Upcoming events:

Month Day City Country Event
May 23-25 Lima Peru Exquisite Corpses, a workshop on journalism projects
May 25 - 27 Lviv Ukraine Lviv Media Forum on digital revolution in media
June 3-4 Toronto Canada Local news and its future
June 7-9 Durban South Africa World News Media Congress
June 15-18 Detroit USA Allied Media Conference
June 19-21 Bonn Germany Global Media Forum on identity and diversity
June 20-23 Portland USA Open Source Bridge
June 21-22 Phoenix USA INN Days, business training for nonprofit newsrooms
June 21-23 Vienna Austria Global Editors Network summit
June 22-25 Phoenix USA Investigative Reporters & Editors IRE Conference
July 5-7 Madrid Spain Global Fact-Checking Summit
July 6-7 Dublin Ireland European Data and Computational Journalism Conference
August 17-19 Denver USA WordCamp for Publishers, a Wordpress event
August 31-1 Grahamstown South Africa Highway Africa conference on media, accountability and local governance
September 14-16 Miami USA Digital Humanities + Data Journalism Symposium
October 4-5 New York USA Future of Storytelling Summit
October 13-14 Evanston USA Computer + Journalism Symposium

Project funding:

Deadline Name Organization Description
Rolling MisinfoCon micro-grant MisinfoCon Small grants for experimental projects that fight misinformation
Rolling Freelance Fund Solutions Journalism Network Small travel stipends for reporters working on “solutions journalism”
May MENA Mentoring Center IJNet Arabic Mentorship for Arabic-language media entrepreneurs
June Online Journalism Awards Online Journalism Association Prize money for innovative and digital journalism projects
June Collaborative journalism grant Center for Cooperative Media Grants for journalism collaborations
June Social Innovation Fellowship Chicago Ideas Week Funding and networking for entrepreneurs tackling social challenges
June TruthBuzz ICFJ Cash prize for creative solutions to fact-checking
July Next Journalism Prize Nieman Foundation Funding for innovative journalism project in Europe
July FoST Prize Future of Storytelling Monetary award for innovative and cutting-edge storytelling projects
September INN Days reimbursement INN Travel stipends for INN member newsrooms traveling to INN Days in Phoenix

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