ONA Weekly #62

Help us rethink news for mobile (in Seattle!)

Join us July 17 at Breaking News for ONA Mobile dCamp: Seattle, a free, day-long workshop to discuss and develop new ideas for mobile-first news. Supported by the Gannett Foundation, this design camp will identify reader needs and propose practical mobile-first solutions. Applications are due July 8.

Five ways newsrooms can connect with their audiences

“The hardest task for a small news startup — probably for most news organizations — is prioritizing,” writes Anika Anand, 2014 MJ Bear Fellow and Director of Product at Chalkbeat. She shares five engagement strategies for small newsrooms in her latest blog post for ONA.

Engagement resources from ONACamp Indianapolis

We’ve pulled together resources from presenters at ONACamp Indianapolis, where more than 100 journalists joined us at the Indianapolis Star for a free day of digital news training with a focus on community engagement. Get tips on building news with a community, creating verifying news on social media, creating video for web and more.

Upcoming Events

• ONA Rocky Mountains: Using analytics to inform stories and emerging tech for journalists, June 30
• ONA LA: Summer Mega-Mixer, July 7
• ONA Singapore: July Social, July 7
• ONA NYC: Summer Social, July 10
• ONA Rocky Mountains: Show Us Your Apps, July 10
• ONA Pittsburgh: Data Visualization for Journalists and Media, July 10
• ONA Jerusalem: Summer Meetup, July 23
• ONADC: A culture-based strategy for innovation, July 29

New 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:

• Faculty Position in Journalism & Design, The New School
• Editor-in-Chief, RNS | Religion News Service
• Copy Chief, AAAS

Trauma Journalism: Training for educators

The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute is hosting a free, two-day conference to teach journalism educators about the impact of trauma on individuals and communities, how to build resilience through reporting, and provide hands-on help in creating units or standalone courses and capstone classes on trauma. Registration opens in July.

What We’re Reading

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

• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Online Harassment (It’s a video but it features Amanda Hess, who will speak with other experts on this very issue at ONA15)
• Making a case for encryption, from guacamole recipes to top-secret documents, ijnet
• Headline Writing With an NYT Guru, ProPublica

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