Based on the NICAR18 Early Career Straight-Talk Tipsheet by Aditi Bhandari and Madi Alexander

Slack groups

These Slack groups are a great way to get to know the online community, ask questions and share resources. Some of them also have private channels for women and minority journalists.

• News Nerdery
• Lonely Coders Club
• Journalists of Color
• D3 Slack
• ONA Local
• Botmakers
• The Spatial Community
• Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) – Must be a member to join

Facebook groups:

Note: Some of these groups are invite-only

Jobs

• D.C. Journalism Jobs
• Remote Journalism Jobs
• California Journalism Jobs
• Media Jobs

Media

• Public Media “Millennials”
• Binders Full of Digital Journalists
• Social Journalism
• Verified Drone Journalists
• Chicago Headline Club

Affiliation

• Public Media Women in Leadership
• Journalists of Color in Public Media
• AAJA (Asian American Journalists Association)
• Yung AAJA (must be an AAJA member to join)
• AAJA Chicago
• Women and Non-binary Journalists of Color
• Riot Grrrls of Journalism

Other groups:

• NICAR-L listserv
• Washington News Nerds
• Source Community Calls
• Society of Professional Journalists local chapters
• Code & Supply
• Girl Develop It
• Women Who Code
• R-Ladies

Professional organizations:

Professional organizations organize events and provide resources and a community. Many have local chapters and/or online group, and most also have an annual conference. Since they require membership fees, feel free to join as many or as few as you like, or none at all — there isn’t one “right” way of associating with them.

• National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ)
• National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ)
• Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA)
• Native American Journalists Association (NAJA)
• South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA)
• The Association of LGBTQ Journalists (NLGJA)
• Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ)
• Online News Association (ONA)
• Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE/NICAR)
• Society for News Design (SND)

Here’s a longer list of journalism associations and groups.

Job boards:

• JournalismJobs.com
• Rachel Schallom’s Visualization newsletter (free) and job board ($5 annually)
• #jobs channels on NewsNerdery, Journalists of Color, Lonely Coders Club and D3 Slacks

Journalism fellowships:

• Carnegie-Knight News21
• Google News Lab Fellowship
• JSK Fellowship

Workshops and courses:

In-person:

• NICAR coding and mapping bootcamps
• IRE Watchdog Workshops
• Ida B. Wells Society Training
• CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Summer Intensives

Online

• R for Journalists
• Resources for Front-End Beginners
• Journalism Courses (free and paid) by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas
• Eloquent Javascript a free ebook for beginning frontend programmers learning JavaScript
• Wes Bos’ online courses
• Facebook for journalism Tips and Courses