ONA Weekly #67

Tips for designing usable interactives for mobile

2014 MJ Bear Fellow Aaron Williams, data visualization editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, and a team at SRCCON dug into the accessibility and usability of interactive graphics on mobile. He shares great tips for dealing with graphics displays on varying screen sizes and making maps and graphics readable on small screens.

Resources for re-imagining mobile news

Earlier this month, Breaking News and ONA hosted over 50 journalists, designers, developers and others passionate about changing the way people experience news on their mobile devices. After working through two quick design sprints, groups created prototypes to help solve common problems. Check out the eight that emerged from ONA Mobile dCamp: Seattle.

Save $100+ by registering for ONA15 by Friday

We want to see you at the Online News Association Conference and Awards in Los Angeles, September 24-26! And we want you to get the best deal available, so register by 11:59 PT, Friday, July 31 to get our discounted second-phase pricing. ONA members save over $300 on top of that rate. Registration price significantly increases Aug. 1.

ONA Career Center Summer Discount

Recruiters: Have an amazing digital journalism opportunity? The ONA Career Center averages 500+ views per jobs, fellowship and freelance opportunity. Use code XK96YU28 for 20 percent off your next 30-day listing, including multiple job packages. Good until 8/31.

Upcoming Events:

• ONADC: A Culture-Based Strategy for Innovation, July 29
• Startup Weekend DC: Media Edition, July 31-August 2
• ONA Singapore: ONA August Monthly Social Drinks, August 4
• ONA Philly: Can sponsored content be good for journalism?, August 18

Jobs!

ONA’s Career Center has hundreds of opportunities for journalists, editors and digital-minded professionals. It’s free to browse and job-seekers can upload their resumes for free. Recent postings include:

• News editor, The Durango Herald
• Digital Editor, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
• Digital Planning Editor, The News Journal/delawareonline.com

What We’re Reading

Some recent posts we’ve highlighted on the ONA Issues Tumblr:

• Newsonomics: The halving of America’s daily newsrooms, Nieman Journalism Lab
• Reporters Committee launches interactive online map of police body camera laws and policies, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
• 11 Google tricks that will change the way you search, TIME

Have an outstanding article on digital journalism issues to share with us? Tweet it with #ONAissues.