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Weekly update from the Nerds at INN Labs.

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What we're reading this week

Ben: Thanks to Rachel Shorey, this week I learned about "zombie" political campaigns, which last years beyond any campaigning.

Kay: Advertising may be down but memberships are up. Here's how the Daily Beast is diversifying revenue during a crisis.

Paola: Rapid remote work: 10 tips for success!

Josh: The team at Digital Ocean has put together an easy to follow and educational guide on how to use Chrome Dev Tools to audit websites and find and fix common performance issues.

Miranda: This is a great interview with David Summers from the Project Management Institute this week on the unique challenges of managing projects with newly remote and distributed teams.

Inndy: I'm here to serve.

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From now until May, Knight Foundation will cover the cost (for INN members only) to get hands-on help from the INN Labs team to improve donor pages, home-page pop-ups, newsletter sign-ups, analytics, and implementing best practices for harnessing traffic spikes.

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EVENTS/DEADLINES

Be in the know

April 21: Wordcamp for Publishers meetup.
April 24: Deadline to apply to the FJP COVID-19 Local News Relief Grant Program.
April 29: Deadline to apply to the Google News Initiative Journalism Emergency Relief Fund.
May 14-15: Collaborative Journalism Summit, conducted remotely.

Rolling deadline: Applications for travel grants from the Peer Learning + Collaboration Fund.

SHOUT OUT

Work we admire by our journalism/tech peers

Pitch Interactive and Big Local News, with support from the Google News Initiative, created a map to make it possible for local journalists to easily embed up-to-date visualizations related to the coronavirus pandemic on their sites.

AP’s county-level U.S. coronavirus data is now publicly available through the data.world platform.

The Facebook Political Ad Collector project has a new home: Quartz.

Solutions Journalism Network has assembled a database of state and local governments that are reporting cases and deaths disaggregated by race and ethnicity.

Congratulations to and INN members MLK50, Reveal, ProPublica, KyCIR, and Texas Tribune for winning IRE Awards!

GET A JOB

Good jobs with good people

PBS Newshour is hiring a project coordinator.
VT Digger is hiring a front-end web developer.
The Trust Project is hiring a community manager.
Reveal News is hiring a data editor.
The CT Mirror is hiring a data reporter.
The Marshall Project is hiring a design director and a data editor.

If you're looking for general jobs in nonprofit news, check out the main INN newsletter and sign up here to get it in your inbox every Tuesday. Two INN newsletters are better than one!

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LISTEN: to Okay, Crawdad.

EAT: flatbread (no yeast required!)

DRINK: a beer with Norm, Carla, and Sam.

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