ONA PDX Meetup: Find Your MoJo! Best Tools & Practices for Mobile Journalism

Join us for a panel discussion about mobile journalism. Also mingle with other local professionals over light refreshments.

Confirmed panelists:
Tony Thomas, The PDXGuy, video blogger for Comcast’s VidBlogger Nation
Brian Conley, Baghdad Brian, Co-Founder, Small World News
Kristian Foden-Vencil, Reporter, OPB News
Moderator, Frank Mungeam, Director of Digital Media, KGW

Wednesday, June 13, 2012
The Appy Room at OPB, 7140 SW Macadam Ave, Portland
6:30 p.m. Social
7 p.m. Panel Discussion
8 p.m. Short Q and A followed by more networking until 9 p.m.

Sponsored by Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB), The Oregonian News Network, and Online News Association.

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Please join us on May 21 at the Austin American-Statesman for another joint meetup of Hacks/Hackers ATX and ONA Austin for Student Innovations in Data Journalism. Jake Batsell, a professor at SMU, will be visiting with us to discuss his students’ award-winning Light of Day Project: Campus Crime. The project analyzes and publishes data associated with crime in the SMU area.

And, Cindy Royal and her Advanced Online Media students from Texas State will be launching their Texas State of Change project at the meeting. This project highlights Texas State’s recent designation as Hispanic Serving Institution with multimedia and data reporting.

Please support these student organizations and join us to learn more about what is being taught in Texas journalism schools to prepare future journalists.

Refreshments will be sponsored by Texas State University via the AEJMC/Knight Building a Bridge (www.aejmc.org/topics/archives/3412) grant that Royal’s class received to complete the project.

We hope to see you on the 21st.

Join us at:
Austin American Statesman
305 South Congress Ave., Austin, TX
Park in the parking lot in the back, easiest to enter via Riverside. Go to the entrance on the right when you walk between buildings. We’re in the conference room to the right as you walk in. Someone should be there to open the door.

We’re dual posting, so feel free to RSVP on either the Hacks/Hackers or ONA Austin meetup invitation.

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L.A. Times Data Desk journalist Anthony Pesce will tell us how about the construction of the Times’ Super Pac spending tracking app — a continually updated visualization of Super Pac spending in the 2012 election cycle. The tracker shows that so far, the majority of money has been spent to oppose particular candidates.

Join us at 6:30 p.m. at
The Los Angeles Times
202 West 1st Street, Los Angeles, CA

More about Anthony Pesce (@anthonyjpesce): He’s a digital editor, developer, and journalist at the Times. He was once the editor of the Daily Bruin at UCLA, and won a Knight News Challenge grant to build an open source content management system and newsroom workflow tool. More links to his projects, including additional 2012 election work, are on his personal site.

The Times is graciously sponsoring this meetup. Meet us in the 5th floor reception lounge, where we’ll have refreshments, and special thanks to Times social media and engagement editor Martin Beck (@latimesbeck), who did a lot of the legwork to organize this.

We hope to see you there!

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On Wednesday, Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner will be in Portland for a special event with the City Club. OPB is broadcasting the speech and conversation with TOL’s Dave Miller live from 1:30 to 2:20 p.m. If you plan to listen in, feel free to tweet with us! We’re using the hashtags #Geithner and #pdxcityclub and will be creating a storify after the event.

Journos can apply for credentials by contacting the city club, and join a few of us who will be tweeting from the press pen. Email pdxcityclub@gmail.com or 503-228-7231 x110 to RSVP.

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This month, ONA Philly is heading over to BarCamp NewsInnovation.

BarCamp NewsInnovation is an annual, one-day national unconference on journalism innovation and the future of news as explored by practitioners and friends. In 2012 again, BCNI will run concurrently with an Open Gov Hackathon presented by Tropo.

The event uses the BarCamp open-grid format where the attendees will set the schedule. In the main lobby of Temple University’s Annenberg Hall at 13th and Diamond streets, there will be a large schedule board full of blank index cards. The day’s schedule will be filled by attendees who invent their own sessions the day of the event. Simultaneously, hackers, coders and designers will be working to use data to create tools for journalists and citizens to make government services more efficient and transparent.

Some of the greatest minds around will discuss new ideas on how to re-energize and innovate the news industry. This is NOT a journalists-only event! Invite any friends from various industries who are concerned about the future of news, information and dissemination. Even your friend who complains about the biased media. Especially that guy. There will be representatives from news organizations all over the country.

The event is $5 (free with a valid student ID) and will be hosted at Annenberg Hall on the campus of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pa. Doors will open at 9 a.m. and the presentations will start at 10 a.m. After an hour break for lunch at 12 p.m., the last presentations will start at 4 p.m.

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The CAJ conference is happening in Toronto April 26-29, and we’re holding a joint pub night to get to know one another better.

Everyone is welcome!

Come join us for after work/conference/pre-awards show drinks down at the Bier Market on the Esplanade. We’ll be there starting at 4:30.

Join us at Bier Markt
58 the Esplanade,
Down by Union Station
Toronto, ON
Reservation is under ONA. We’ll be at the picnic tables at the back near the stage

Please RSVP if you can come, and let us know when you plan on coming (they need 80% of our party before they’ll seat us).

We’ll have the tables until 7 p.m., but you’re welcome to stay and mingle later.

The Bier Market asks that we order from the waitress for our tables, but assures us that split bills are not a problem.

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Let’s celebrate the end of the semester with a meetup and some Rock Band and/or karaoke. For educational purposes, we’ll go through some things to do over the summer to improve your job prospects.

Meet ONA Gainesville Thursday, April 26 at Do Art.
3429 W. University Ave
Westgate Shopping Plaza
Gainesville, FL

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Thanks to all who attended ONA MIA last month. It was great to have a space where South Florida online news folks can gather to share ideas – in person. We counted 30 heads in all.

This month we’re teaming up with NAHJ South Florida and NABJ South Florida at The News Lounge Bar & Cafe in Miami on Wednesday, April 25 at 6:30PM.

Come ready to introduce yourself in 10 seconds or less.

There will be free drink tickets for those of you who RSVP by Monday, April 23.

There will be free food.

Happy Hour extended until 10PM just for us:

Most beer: $3.00

Wine: $4.00

Well liquor: $4.00

Fancy drinks: $6.00

Bruschetta: $3.00

Ceviche: $4.00

Sliders/Sandwiches: $6.00

Also: we’ll have an entire outdoor section by the bar reserved just for us.

Next month we’d like to have all the bloggers introduce their work to the group, and tell us about cool projects they’re up to.

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For the April meeting, ONA Austin has a new location and two superstars of online video production: Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon and Burnie Burns.

Jorge was a video journalist at the Austin American-Statesman for more than seven years before recently joining the staff at KUT-Austin. He has won many awards over his career, and he has also been a longtime lecturer at the University of Texas-Austin School of Journalism. Jorge will show off some of his work and talk about the process he goes through in shooting and producing online videos.

Burnie is an independent filmmaker who has become an Internet celebrity thanks to the popular work he has done with his company, Rooster Teeth Productions. He created the wildly successful machinima series Red vs. Blue, and has also appeared at the Sundance and The Sydney Film Festival. He will explain what Rooster Teeth does, how it came about, and what machinima means.

The new location is 2110 San Jacinto Blvd, Austin, Texas, on the University of Texas campus, at the home of the Texas Exes (in the Legends room). There will be a cash bar and free parking under the building for the first 50 cars. There’s paid parking in the Trinity garage down the street.

This will be a great event, and everyone is welcome.

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Please join the Asian American Journalists Association New York Chapter, the New York Press Club, and the New York Chapter of the Online News Association for a panel discussion and Q&A session on International Women Journalists: Their Voices in the War Zone. Hosted by the New York Times the event will take place Wednesday, April 4th, 2012 from 6:30pm to 8pm. The talk is free, but RSVP is required.

Journalists participating on our panel will share their personal stories of the challenges and triumphs of reporting abroad. Additionally, panelists will discuss how reporting abroad has evolved with the integration of social media tools, and what they predict for the future of reporting in this field. Come with questions in mind— each of these journalists has unique experiences in reporting overseas.

WHERE: The New York Times Building, 620 Eight Avenue, 15th floor, Room 115, New York, NY 10018

WHEN: April 4th 2012, 6:30-8pm

RSVP: This event is free, but you MUST RSVP no later than 3pm April 3rd, 2012 here.

SPEAKERS: Roxana Saberi, Stephanie Gaskell, Raghida Dergham, Edith Lederer

***Additional speakers TBD

For more information, please contact Michelle Udem at mpudem@gmail.com

Sponsored by:

AAJANY
New York Press Club
ONA-NYC
New York Times

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