ONA Weekly #101

Get expert tips from ONA London

Get tips from experts on connecting with your audience, chat apps, what journalists can learn from game designers and more from live curation at ONA London: Audience Engagement, our conference at Reuters UK on April 1. Learn from keynotes Mary Hamilton, Executive Editor, Audience, Guardian News & Media, and Renée Kaplan, Head of Audience Engagement, Financial Times. From the schedule, simply click any session title 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. 

Support the ONA Social Newsgathering Ethics Code

Last week, we debuted the the ONA Social Newsgathering Ethics Code, best practices to gather, distribute and use social news content. We’re happy to welcome three new organizations as signers: Ethical Journalism Network, Fresco News and Verifeye Media. If your organization would like to join BBC, CNN, Reported.ly, Storyful and more as a supporter, please get in touch at socialnewsgathering@journalists.org.

Attend ONA16 for free

We’ve got a ton of free ways to attend the 2016 Online News Association Conference. We’re looking for general volunteers for ONA16, as well as for video, social and audio. We’re also accepting applications for the ONA16 Student Newsroom, which covers the conference. Bonus: Student Newsroom reporters get an all-expenses paid trip! Apply by April 14.

Upcoming Events

• ONA Philly: Philly History Web Series Screening and Q&A, April 6
• ONA LA: Appy Hour with IRE and NAHJ, April 21
• ONA UK: What Keeps You Up at Night?, May 5
• ONA LA: Mobile Storytelling for Beginners, May 14

Jobs 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:

• Associate Editor, Play Newsstand, Google
• Producer NewsWorks Tonight, WHYY
• The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Journalism Fellowship Program, NORC

Workshop: Media law for journalists

Top media lawyers will give practical advice on how to stay clear of costly libel and privacy suits, avoid copyright traps, understand insurance coverage options, navigate the reporter-source relationship and more in the Media Law for Journalists workshop and roundtable, April 26, at The New York Times. Editors and writers from BuzzFeed, CNN, Gawker and NYT will share their tips and strategies on career paths and story pitches. Registration is $15 and includes lunch. Register now.

What We’re Reading

• How Reporters Pulled Off the Panama Papers, the Biggest Leak in Whistleblower History, WIRED
• Snapchat Content Survey: How Much Millennials Actually Use Live Stories, Discover and More, Variety
• How I negotiated for an additional $15,000 at Yammer., Anne Marie Clifton on Medium

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