April 18, 2024

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Kozik Environmental Justice Reporting Grants: 2024 applications open. $10,000 to $25,000 grants to support your environmental justice reporting project. Apply by April 24, 2024.
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Covering trans & LGBTQ+ issues during 2024. Free webinar with support from the Trans Journalists Association. Join us on Friday, May 10, at 11:30 am ET.

May 10: Covering trans and LGBTQ+ issues during 2024


Trans people and DEIB programs are in the crosshairs of state leaders, legislatures, policymakers, and school boards. Journalists must be prepared to report and share the impact of these efforts, as well as how political candidates are using them to influence voters. 


What are the key issues at stake and the major themes playing out? What are the most reliable sources of unbiased information? And how can reporters better understand multiple perspectives and the nuanced questions involved?


Register now to join the National Press Club Journalism Institute, with support from the Trans Journalists Association, for a discussion aimed at answering these questions as well as illuminating best practices for your reporting and editing on transgender and LGBTQ+ issues.


This webinar — which will take place at 11:30 am ET on May 10 — is geared for all journalists, especially those new to the beat, or from small and medium news organizations.

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What are the trends in current journalism job openings?


"There are noticeable cycles in the industry. For example, during the pandemic, you saw the job market really contract at different points, and then it would expand again. I think in the past couple years, I’ve seen more demand for data reporters. Last year into this year, I think you’ve seen more political reporters as the presidential election cycle ramped up—elections reporters; I think I even saw a couple democracy reporters out there as well. We’re starting to see more and more AI positions emerging in newsrooms. There’s not a plethora of them at present, but it starts at the big-market level with some of these positions, and then they start to become a little more common throughout the industry."


-- Mandy Hofmockel, editor of ‘Journalism Jobs and My Dog’ in a Q & A with Columbia Journalism Review, on what types of journalism jobs she is seeing listed as of April 2024.

 
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