ONA Weekly #47

ONA London live blogs bring mobile expertise to you

Get tips from experts including Nathalie Malinarich and Stacy-Marie Ishmael on building great apps, designing for mobile, push alerts and more from the live curation at ONA London: Mobile, our conference at Reuters UK on March 6. From the schedule, simply click “more info” next to any session to find the blog. We’ll make video available to ONA members soon, so if you’re not one yet, join now. More resources to come.

Introducing the ONA-Poynter Leadership Academy class

The 25 women in the first cohort of the ONA-Poynter Leadership Academy for Women in Digital Media are sure to inspire you. With so much interest in this new leadership program for women, we’re already planning another academy in 2016 that will focus on promising emerging leaders.

Getting awesome at SXSW

If you’re coming to SXSW Interactive, come party with us (and all of our journalism friends) at The Awesomest Journalism Party. Ever. V., from 5-8 p.m., Saturday, March 14 at the Palm Door. ONA’s Digital Director Trevor Knoblich and Senior Communications Manager Jen Mizgata would love to talk to you about projects and ideas for ONA15.

Send us your session ideas for ONA15

Submit a pitch to ONA15, and help us create an inspiring, collaborative conference for digital journalists. Submissions from the community are a vital part of the program and each one is reviewed by our program committee. Be sure to send your ideas by April 10.

Upcoming Events

• The Awesomest Journalism Party. Ever. V., March 14 (Austin)
• ONA Toronto: Making UGC work, March 23
• ONA DC: Data Visualization for the Real World, March 24
• ONA LA: March Mixer, March 31
• ONA DC: Welcoming SND to Washington, April 8

Just posted! Jobs for journalists

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:

• Associate Producer, CNN Homepage.com, CNN
• Managing Editor Broadcast News – Science/Technology, KJZZ Phoenix
• Cross Platform Managing Editor, WTVD-TV ABC 11

Free! Daily News Innovation Lab “Conversations” event

The first 10 members of the ONA community to register using the code ONACOMP will receive free admission to “Social Media in the Age of Algorithms,” March 25 in New York City. The event will feature Pete Cashmore (Mashable), Alex Leo (Yahoo!), Rubina Madan Fillion (The Intercept) and Mat Yurow (The New York Times). Members of the ONA community receive 25% off registration (until capacity is reached) using the code ONADISCOUNT25.

What we’re reading:

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

• 24 takeaways from the ONA London conference on mobile, Sarah Marshall
• The Tech Reporter’s Guide to SXSW, NewsCred
• Winners list: 2014 Best of Digital Design competition, SND

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