WASHINGTON DC — The Online News Association, the world’s largest membership organization of digital journalists, today announced a $40,000 grant from the Excellence & Ethics in Journalism Foundation (EEJF) to fund the first phase of a digital toolkit that will offer journalists access to ethics and live scheduling tools.
At start-up, the kit will include two tools: One will allow journalists with little or no coding experience to customize, implement and publish a digital ethics code based on a guide ONA has built and crowd-sourced over the past year; the other will facilitate easy set-up of online schedules for revenue-generating live events.
“EEJF has supported us every step of the way as we’ve built journalists.org, expanded its resources and search capabilities and challenged J-schools to collaborate and innovate,” said Jane McDonnell, ONA Executive Director. “We’re proud to be working with them to continue to give digital journalists the tools they need to do their jobs with integrity — and generate revenue.”