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How journalists can ensure information equity
New from ONA Community Circles: The #ONAinfoequity database is a one-stop shop of guides for journalists to engage communities that are underrepresented in media and ensure equitable access to information. Free Press’ Vanessa Maria Graber and ONA Board member Anita Li led over a dozen journalists to collaborate on this project. We’re excited to share this new database, along with a step-by-step suggested process for defining your engagement strategy for underrepresented communities so you can make the most of the resources collected here. Explore the database, share with your colleagues and tell us how you’re using it.
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ONA Board elects new officers
Join us in congratulating Rodney Gibbs, Executive Director, RevLab at The Texas Tribune, and Charo Henríquez, Editor, Newsroom Development and Support at The New York Times, on their new roles as ONA Board Treasurer and Secretary, respectively. As Treasurer and Secretary, they will hold office for one year. ONA Board President Shazna Nessa and Vice President David Smydra are serving the second of their two-year terms.
Board leadership is key to achieving ONA’s mission to inspire and support innovation and excellence in digital journalism. Thank you for your service!
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Align cross-functional teams to build effective digital products
Every news product leader is looking for that sweet spot between desirability, feasibility and viability. Getting there requires understanding who needs to be involved and how. It could include editorial, design, marketing, analytics and more. Investing time upfront to define roles and responsibilities across the relevant functions is crucial. To take it further, here’s an idea: have each person on the team do the exercise of defining their job and everyone else’s job on a particular product. When you regroup, you will see quickly where the team is not aligned and can adjust before you get too far into the product development process.
Dig deeper: A Balanced Diet for Digital Products: Cross-Functional Teams and Stakeholder “Food Groups” (2019) — audio recording and slides
- Featured experts: Kellen Henry, Becky Pallack
- Try this, too: Help your team communicate product value with this mad lib: With (product name), you can reach (number) (audience type, customer type) with (type of ad position) and get (how you will measure success) for only (price per time period).
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Career opportunities
ONA’s Career Center is an excellent resource for jobs, fellowships and internships in digital journalism. Recent postings include:
- Assistant Professor of Journalism and Executive Editor and Professor of Practice, Syracuse University
- Newsletter Editor and Web Producer, Hearst Connecticut Media Group
- Race and Equity Reporter, Louisville Public Media (plus, four other positions)
- Instructor, Media Production, Virginia Commonwealth University
- News Director, KCBX Central Coast Public Radio
- Social & Presentation Editor, The Colorado Sun
- Managing Editor, MPR News, Minnesota Public Radio
- National Enterprise Reporter, NBC News Digital
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On our radar
- The state of immigration news in Chicago, Diane Bou Khalil, Nissa Rhee, Michelle
- Kanaar and Alex V. Hernandez for Borderless Magazine
- People desperate for COVID-19 guides seek local journalists, David Bauder for The Associated Press
- We created a speaker rider because journalism didn’t have one, Jan Diehm, Sisi Wei and Erika Owens for The Pudding and Open News
- Top 100: The most popular social media platforms and what they can teach us, Ethan Zuckerman and Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci for The Knight Institute
- What the press have and should have learned from the Trump era, On the Media, featuring Yamiche Alcindo, Jay Rosen, Karen Attiah, David Leonhardt and Masha Gessen
The radar is now open for suggestions. Have you written or read a piece lately that would benefit others in journalism? We’re interested in sharing insights on trends, how-to guides, lessons from a project and other inspiration for innovation in digital journalism. |
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P.S. from the ONA team
“There will never be a time where you’ll say, ‘Ooh, good thing we’re done. We achieved diversity. Let’s move on to the next thing.’ We’re really looking at this as a spectrum. There are areas where you continually want to move toward, but there really is no finish line.”
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