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Gina Chua’s keynote address to the IRE22 conference in Denver, in the US, emphasized how rebuilding public trust in investigative journalism requires a diverse workforce that truly represents and engages with the communities it serves.
Position: Social Media and Engagement Editor, Global Investigative Journalism Network
This job is now closed. GIJN, a dynamic nonprofit, is looking for a Social Media and Engagement Editor to aggregate and distribute investigative tips, tools and resources over its outreach platforms. Duties include aggregating, writing, and posting daily on the organization’s Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn accounts, assisting in the copy and production of English newsletters, and expanding the online reach of GIJN to journalism and related communities.
In a GIJC21 session on investigative podcasts, journalists and producers who have created award-winning podcasts shared ideas on how to leverage this audio storytelling technique to better connect with the audience and tell impactful stories.
When the COVID-19 pandemic first hit Brazil, a team of data journalists set out to illustrate what the death toll looked like by creating a data visualization that presented something beyond the numbers. The team considered various ways of displaying the story. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how they created At the Epicenter.
Position: Social Media and Engagement Editor (8-month maternity cover from mid-January to mid-August 2021), Global Investigative Journalism Network
This job post is now closed. Deadline: December 1, 2020
GIJN, a fast-growing nonprofit, is looking for an interim Social Media and Engagement Editor to aggregate and distribute investigative tips, tools and resources over GIJN’s outreach platforms daily.
Splice Media have been running “check-in” sessions with the media startups they support in Asia to find out how organizations and individuals are coping through the coronavirus pandemic. Here are his tips for hosting an online media event like this. His takeaway? The technology is the easy part.
This week’s Friday 5, where we round up our favorite reads from around the online world in English, includes a Bellingcat post on what to look out for when reporting on Russian disinformation, how Documented is using WhatsApp to maximize reporting and audience reach, and the Oxford research group’s global effort to gather publicly available data on the coronavirus.
As coronavirus sweeps through communities around the world, the Membership Puzzle Project has shared examples from newsrooms around the world on how they have quickly adapted pillars of their membership programs and memberful routines to respond to the realities of this crisis.
Everyone seems to produce email newsletters these days. But not everyone is doing it well. Mark Jacob of the Local News Initiative asked newsletter experts about what works and what doesn’t.
Instead of writing an entire behind-the-scenes article to explain how you carried out an investigation, consider instead incorporating this information in the investigation itself in the form of “trust nuggets” to reach more readers, writes Trusting News’ Joy Mayer.