Global Forum for Media Development Deadline: 24 September 2019
Call for Applications The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) is partnering with the Google News Initiative in an effort to strengthen the digital know-how of thousands of journalists across the Middle East and North Africa. The program is being offered through IJNet Arabic.
Global Forum for Media Development Deadline: Rolling Basis
Development Course Reuters Institute’s Leading Newsroom Change is a development course for media professionals, with discussions and presentations on business models, organisational transformation, audience development, and the latest approaches to storytelling.
9-11 July 2019 – Paris, France
Join the World Journalism Education Congress in Paris, France, in July 2019. The conference will focus on digitalisation, teaching methods, curricula, and how journalism schools could be on the verge of radically changing the way they teach journalism.
19-21 June 2019 – Lisbon, Portugal
The annual GEN Summit 2019 will feature key speakers at the forefront of journalism and technology giving you the skills and tools to bring about change of global newsrooms.
13-15 June,2019 – Athens, Greece
GEN Summit 2019 is shaping up to address issues about the future of journalism while exploring themes around Voice, Visual Journalism and Verification.
Global Forum for Media Development Deadline: 11 July 2019
Fellowship The MJ Bear Fellowship identifies and supports digital journalists under 30 whose work represents the best of digital news. In 2019, Online News Association will select six fellows from around the world who are up-and-coming journalists and leading innovative digital journalism projects.
Global Forum for Media DevelopmentAs part of our continued advocacy on media sustainability, digital markets, and business models, GFMD is co-organising a workshop at RightsCon Tunis with the U.S.-based advocacy organisation Free Press. The session will address the wider impact of the digital economy on democratic societies.
9 February 2019 – London, UK
The Guardian is holding a masterclass with one of their award-winning journalists Will Storr on long-form journalism and storytelling. The class covers the essential skills of feature writing – from pitching story ideas to editors to crafting compelling articles for different publications.
1-2 February 2019 – Miami, Florida
The Computation + Journalism Symposium 2019 at the University of Miami will celebrate the work of journalists and researchers in exploring new and exciting ways to tell stories.
1-2 April 2019 – Vienna, Austria
Featuring panel discussions, intimate Q&As and extensive networking opportunities, DME’19 is set to examine solutions to the issues facing publishers in this period of rapid change.
Elizabeth PenningtonThe Ariadne Network, which brings European donors and staff together to work in support of human rights, social change, and justice, released a seminal guide in collaboration with the Transparency and Accountability Initiative earlier this year. Written by Sameer Padania, “An Introduction to Funding Journalism and Media,” offers clear and detailed advice to guide those wishing to venture into funding journalism and media projects with the right tools necessary to navigate the funding landscape.
29-30 Nov, 2018, Grahamstown, South Africa
The Highway Africa Conference is a project of Rhodes University (Grahamstown, South Africa). The 22-year old event is supported by a variety of partners including Government, corporate South Africa and development agencies.
15 Nov – 17 Nov, 2018, Prague, Czech Republic
Prague Media Point is a series of annual international conferences, dedicated to discussing the changing media landscape in a professional, political, economic, and social context. These events gather leading academics, journalists, media executives, and experts from around the world to exchange experiences, establish new relationships, and debate challenges facing both traditional and new media. The topic for this iteration of conference is Media and Technology: Innovative Journalism in a Contested Political Space.
14 Nov – 16 Nov, 2018, Bogota, Colombia
Digital Media LATAM 2018 brings to you a concise, carefully-tailored, rich and relevant programme along with a perfect mix of business, editorial and technology topics. It will deliver a series of sessions from the world’s best speakers brought to LATAM, on a wide range of topics including innovation in newsrooms, digital journalism storytelling, audience monetisation and data science for media companies.
07 Nov – 09 Nov, 2018, Hong Kong
Digital Media Asia has, since its launch in 2009, grown to become the largest new media conference dedicated to the news publishing industry in Asia. The event offers three focussed days of conference and workshops and a technology and services expo.
The 9th Asian Digital Media Awards will be presented during the conference.
1 November – London, UK
Join Sky News’ Alex Crawford and BBC’s Jeremy Bowen for the Rory Peck Trust Awards 2018, celebrating freelancers working behind the camera to bring us the very latest in global affairs and news.
24 to 31 Oct 2018 – Globally
UNESCO is hosting its annual Global MIL Week activities during the last week in October all around the world.
Elizabeth PenningtonDeadline: 13 January 2019
SMART Data Spirit is a practical, online data and digital focused organisation. For one week, attending participants will have the opportunity to hear a variety of talks, lectures and lab projects.
Global Forum for Media DevelopmentDeadlines: 16 December 2018 and 9 January 2019
Columbia School of Journalism and Nikkei offering two $100,000 scholarships for residents of Asia, to study degrees in Data Journalism as well as Business & Economics Journalism.
Global Forum for Media DevelopmentDeadline: 31 October
Open Society Foundations (OSF) is looking for a new director to lead the Program on Independent Journalism. The vacancy is an executive-level, full-time staff position based in London, UK.