Journalism Jobs and other links from the Hacks/Hackers Newsletter

Journalists will play a role in shaping a trusted and truthful future of AI, write Hacks/Hackers?co-founder Jennifer 8. Lee and AI?Researcher-in-Residence Sil Hamilton in a?new article?for the Computer History Museum. For example, they write, the large language models used to train?AI need trustworthy sources of high quality text data. Where can one reliably find high-quality and up-to-date text at scale? In short, Hamilton and Lee say, that source is journalism.?As journalism?stands on a new precipice of generative AI, how will newsrooms adapt? To learn more, read the full article:?AI Needs Journalism More than Journalism Needs AI.

Worth a Read:

• The argument of whether or not to use a pie chart is a hot topic in the data visualization community, so Nightingale wrote a thoughtful commentary on use cases where a pie chart may be the best option - like highlighting a fraction of a whole.
• The U.S. media industry has lost over 20,000 jobs in 2023 so far, with over 2,600 of those in the news sector, according to a job losses report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
• climateXchange published a report on Global Climate Journalism Insights: Southeast Asia to highlight challenges the region’s journalists face, like limited resources, fear of reprisal and lack of public engagement.

Jobs:

• Anywhere - Proof, AI Researcher
• Bangladesh - GIJN, Bangla Editor
• MENA Region - Internews, Project Coordinator
• Qatar - Northwestern University, Professor in Media Law & Journalism Ethics
• US - ABC, Director - Data Journalism
• US - CBS News, Data Journalist
• US - Columbia Journalism Review, Executive Editor
• US - Hearst, Temporary Data Reporter/Analyst
• US - The Marshall Project, Deputy Data Editor
• US - UC Berkeley, Open Source Investigations Specialist

Upcoming Events:

• March 7-10, Baltimore, US, NICAR Conference
• April 17-21, Perugia, Italy, International Journalism Festival
• May 30 - June 2, Mechelen, Belgium, Dataharvest
• June 20-23, Anaheim, US, IRE Conference