ONA Weekly #389: Kelsey Proud Joins ONA As Learning Director

Kelsey Proud joins ONA as Learning Director

We are thrilled to announce that Kelsey Proud is ONA’s first Learning Director. Kelsey is an expert in newsroom training and community engagement with significant experience in public media. As Learning Director, she will oversee the strategy and implementation of a wide range of innovative training and community engagement activities, including our annual conference and the Women’s Leadership Accelerator. Her first day is Monday, Dec. 13. Read the full announcement and join us in welcoming Kelsey to her new role in the ONA community.

Dec. 9: Community meetup for XR professionals

If you’re passionate about using XR technologies for news storytelling or looking to experiment, don’t miss the ONA XR Community Meetup this Thursday, Dec. 9, 2 p.m. EST (19:00 UTC). This event is participatory, not a webinar. You will experience a series of fast-paced breakout sessions to network and share ideas with other digital journalists focused on XR. Register now.

Download the new eBook: Tomorrow’s Newsroom Today

The new ebook from SnapStream, Tomorrow’s Newsroom Today offers expert opinions about the challenges facing the news industry and how to tackle them.

8 ideas to empower your team

Newsroom managers: As you plan for 2022, what practices are you holding on to or introducing to encourage career growth and innovation on your team? Consider these eight ideas from our recent series of leadership conversations with alums of the Women’s Leadership Accelerator. Speakers shared stories from their leadership journeys and strategies for advocating for yourself and your team. Recordings are available for all three learning sessions. Register to access the series on demand.

ICYMI: Let’s celebrate your journalism mentors

Once again, we are dedicating space in this newsletter to celebrate and give thanks to journalism mentors as the year winds down. Reply to this email with 1-3 sentences about someone who has made a difference in your work and career this year as a mentor. Be sure to include their name. We are especially interested in hearing about specific actions or techniques that were helpful that others might be inspired to try. We’ll include as many responses as we can in an upcoming issue.

Important dates

Dec. 9: ONA XR Community Meetup
Dec. 16: ONA San Francisco: Virtual Holiday Mixer + Conversation on Race and Equity Coverage

Career opportunities

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

Research Associate, Media and News, Pew Research Center
News Reporting Fellow, O’Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism at Marquette University
Digital Writer and Editor, Ford Foundation
Gulf States Newsroom Senior Content Editor, WBHM in Birmingham, Ala.
Post Production Manager, The New York Times
Editor in Chief, The Fuller Project
Digital News Editor and Harrisburg Bureau Chief, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Education Lab Reporter, Amazon Editor, Business Editor and Arts Recovery Reporter, The Seattle Times
Professor of Data Journalism, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

On our radar

Community newspapers in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas fill information gaps, fight stereotypes to produce truly local journalism, Leonardo Coelho for LatAm Journalism Review
Using comics, music, and theater to bring investigative journalism to new audiences, Banjo Damilola for GIJN
Case study: Reframe pilot with InvestigateWest, Aubrey Nagle for Resolve Philly
AI Journalism Starter Pack, JournalismAI team at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Now nonprofit, The Salt Lake Tribune has achieved something rare for a local newspaper: financial sustainability, Sarah Scire for Nieman Lab

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