ONA Weekly #292

How to build a support network

Drawing on her experience coordinating the ONA Women’s Leadership Accelerator, Director of Programs Jen Mizgata wrote about how journalists can make room for support networks in a competitive, deadline-driven industry. “So often our workplaces don’t prioritize support. Other things come before us prioritizing our own care,” she writes. Read the piece on building the right support networks for your needs, on Source.

Welcome new ONA Board members

We’re excited to welcome Anita Li, media analyst and consultant; Fergus Bell, Founder & CEO of Fathm; Maryanne Reed, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs West Virginia University; and Student Representative Aiyana Ishmael to ONA’s Board of Directors. They kicked off their two-year terms on Jan. 1 and will join other Board members and the ONA team in Washington, D.C. this week for the year’s first Board meeting — providing guidance as we pursue ambitious goals across our five focus areas.

Upcoming events

• Jan. 30: ONA St. Louis: SEO and Online Analytics: What Journalists Need to Know Now 
• Feb. 17: ONA Detroit: Disinformation Happy Hour

Career opportunities

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

• Communications Associate, Religion/Internet and Technology/Science, Pew Research Center
• Reporter, Spectrum Magazine
• Podcast Producer, Audio Innovations Studio, Colorado Public Radio
• Reporters, Report for America
• Ted Scripps Fellowships in Environmental Journalism, University of Colorado Boulder

On our radar

• In Haiti’s uprising, journalists are caught in the middle, Columbia Journalism Review
• Is this video “missing context,” “transformed,” or “edited”? This effort wants to standardize how we categorize visual misinformation, Nieman Lab
• What do we want? Unbiased reporting! When do we want it? During protests!, The Conversation
• ‘It definitely limits our options’: Under AB 5, publishers and freelancers see costs rise, Digiday
• At the sea’s edge: Covering climate change from the Cape Cod coast, The GroundTruth Project