ONA Weekly #93

Meghan Murphy, new ONA Local champion

We’re thrilled to welcome Meghan Murphy, ONA’s Community Manager, to our team. As part of our Knight Foundation-funded ONA Local initiative, she’s responsible for expanding our local communities — online and off — in cities around the world, providing in-person and virtual support, and identifying and training group leaders.

Apply now for ONA Mobile dCamp: Nashville

Near Nashville? Join us for a free workshop (courtesy of the Gannett Foundation) on Feb. 26 at The Tennessean. Work with mobile experts from Breaking News, CNN, The Tennessean, WPLN and more to design new ways to reach mobile audiences. Learn more and apply by Feb. 17.

Free tool! ONA Event Manager

We’ve fielded lots of questions about how we built the ONA15 schedule. So we decided to make our responsive scheduling tool available to all. With the push of a button, you can use the ONA Event Manager to use Google Docs, specifically Google Sheets, to create and update a schedule for your events.

ONA heads to Japan

ONA staffers Jane McDonnell, Irving Washington and Jess Strelitz will be in Tokyo March 11-12 to speak at Digital Journalism Forum Tokyo 2016, and lay the foundation for an ONA Tokyo Local group. The trio will discuss tips for building a smart digital journalism career and innovating from within. If you or your organization is interested in attending, or would like to help ONA build its presence in Tokyo, contact Jessica@journalists.org.

Upcoming Events

• ONA Hawaii: Social media secrets for Journos, Feb. 10
• ONA DC: A launch story: Dating in the digital age, Feb. 10
• ONA Boston: Online Media Lightning Talks at the MIT Media Lab, Feb. 17
• ONA Mobile dCamp: Nashville, Feb. 26
• ONA London: Audience Engagement, April 1

Jobs (and opportunities) for journalists

Whether you’re focused on getting a new job right now or just interested in seeing what opportunities are out there, ONA’s Career Center is an excellent resource for journalism jobs. It’s free for job seekers to browse. Recent postings include:

• Editor: Website Copy, Stars and Stripes
• News Producer, The Seattle Times
• NCAA Digital sports post-grad internship, Turner Sports

What We’re Reading

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

• Distributed news: How BuzzFeed curates stories for social platforms, Journalism.co.uk
• The New York Times’ new Slack 2016 election bot sends readers’ questions straight to the newsroom, Nieman Journalism Lab
• The thorny ethics of embedding with do-gooders, Columbia Journalism Review

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