ONA Weekly #54

Congrats to 2015-16 Challenge Fund winners!

Eleven projects from 13 U.S. universities each won $35,000 though the Challenge Fund for Innovation in Journalism Education to help seed collaborative news projects in their communities. Six more projects received honorable mentions. Check out their experiments, in partnership with local media outlets.

Give your graduate the gift of ONA

If you’ve got a friend or loved one graduating from J-school this year, we’ve got a gift to start them off on their chosen career — a discounted ONA membership. Connect them to our more than 2,300 members and digital journalism community of 60,000 worldwide, plus jobs, resources, collaborators and inspiration for their next projects. Get $25 off membership for a graduate now.

Upcoming Events

• ONA PDX: Trivia for Journalism Nerds, May 7
• ONA Singapore: May Social, May 13

Journalism 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 App Developer, The Chronicle of Higher Education
• Managing Editor, The Dallas Morning News
• Director of Professional Development, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism

Knight-VICE Innovators Fund seeks applications

The Knight Foundation and Vice Media have partnered with the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism on a new $500,000 fund. Applicants are encouraged to explore “new forms of storytelling, create new tools and curricula, and take the tools of journalism to new places and to the next generation of news consumers.” Learn more and apply by June 1.

What We’re Reading

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

• State of the News Media 2015, Pew Research Center
• 5 things I learned from #digitalwomenleader rockstars, Kari Cobham on Medium
• The one word journalists should add to Twitter searches that you probably haven’t considered, Daniel Victor on Medium

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