ONA Weekly #247

ONA is seeking a Meeting Manager

We are looking to hire a highly motivated Meeting Manager to join the ONA team. Do you know someone who would be a great fit? This job requires strong project management skills and would be perfect for someone who is enthusiastic to oversee a variety of meetings and events, for groups of anywhere from 30 to 3,000 people.

Pitch your session ideas for ONA19

ICYMI: The ONA19 Suggestion Box is now open. This is your chance to tell us about the session ideas, presenters and bold conversations you want to see at the conference in New Orleans. Explore the resources we put together for inspiration and tips on pitching.

From the archives: Andrew Sullivan explains blogging

We are sharing resources from the ONA archives throughout 2019, as we celebrate 20 years of inspiring innovation in journalism.

In 2003, politics and culture writer Andrew Sullivan keynoted our annual conference to discuss on how journalists can reach a global audience through blogging. Unlike traditional op-ed columns, blogs, he said, invite ongoing conversation. Though, he also admitted that there was no clear business model for blogging success. His announcement in 2015 that he was retiring from his blog The Dish initiated many debates about whether blogging is dead and reflections on how his blogging changed the internet. 

Upcoming events

• ONA Austin: Career Advice Lightning Talks with Hacks/Hackers, Feb. 28
• ONA Houston: Investigative Reporting, Feb. 28
• ONA NYC: Surviving Journalism: How to Cope During Industry Layoffs, Feb. 27
• ONA St. Louis: Newsroom Tour at St. Louis Public Radio and Panel Discussion on Podcasting, Mar. 21
• ONA Cincinnati: Learn What Makes Deadspin Special, Apr. 25 Just added!
• ONA PDX: Networked News, Racial Divides, Apr. 26

Jobs for journalists

ONA’s Career Center is an excellent resource for jobs in digital journalism. Recent postings include:

• Visiting Assistant Professor of Journalism, C.W. Snedden Chair, University of Alaska Fairbanks
• Audience Engagement Editor, The Center for Public Integrity
• Producer – The Record, KUOW Public Radio
• Associate or Full Professor, Investigative Reporting, University of California, Berkeley
• SEO/Headline Packaging Editor, The Wall Street Journal

What we’re reading

• How do you redesign your education coverage? Start by doing your homework, Engagement at KPCC
• Czech journalists form own branch of international media watchdog, European Journalism Observatory
• Diversifying audience should be mission-critical for newsrooms, Hearken
• Behind the scenes: Culture and tools of remote work at Automattic, Steph Yiu
• How I learned to let communities guide our local reporting projects, ProPublica