ONA Weekly #445: Carrie Blazina Joins ONA As Communications Manager

Carrie Blazina joins ONA as communications manager

We’re excited to announce that Carrie Blazina is ONA’s new communications manager. Carrie will support a range of communications efforts and campaigns to grow our audiences, working with people across the organization to find and share stories about ONA’s members and their work.

Carrie’s background in online journalism and digital production roles at newsrooms and nonprofits makes her well-positioned to help execute ONA’s mission. Learn more about Carrie and join us in welcoming her to ONA.

ONA Career Day Resume Drop is now open!

Whether you are looking for a new job, interested in exploring fellowships or academic programs — or all of the above! — submitting your resume to our database is an easy way to get in front of recruiters and program representatives participating in ONA Career Day.

Want to make sure your resume shines before it makes its debut? ONA is hosting a webinar on Feb. 7 at 12 p.m. EST to help you do just that.

On the calendar

Feb. 7: Make Your Resume Shine
Feb. 8: Accessibility Pros (a11y) Idea Swap
Mar. 9: ONA Career Day
Aug. 23–26: 2023 Online News Association Conference

Career opportunities

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

Director of Audience Growth and Engagement, The Texas Tribune
Digital Editor, VTDigger
Digital Producer/Editor, The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Professor of Practice, Health Reporting, Arizona State University
Opinion Writer, Honolulu Civil Beat
Climate and Environment Reporter, Chemical & Engineering News, American Chemical Society
Digital Producer, Ideastream Public Media
Senior Program Manager, Journalism and Disinformation, PEN America

On our radar

Blind news audiences are being left behind in the data visualisation revolution: here’s how we fix that, Johny Cassidy for Reuters Institute
News publishers are flocking to TikTok as they continue to search for new audiences, Ivy Liu for Digiday
How coding can change the very journalism we do, Anastasia Valeeva for Source
How to produce more gender-equitable coverage, Inaara Ganji for International Journalists’ Network
A recession by any other name, Mercy Tonnia Orengo for Columbia Journalism Review

P.S. from the ONA team

ONA recently joined Demand Progress, Freedom of the Press Foundation and a coalition of 41 more press freedom, government accountability and civil liberties organizations and media outlets to urge House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries to allow CSPAN to have independent control of cameras on the House floo r.

Directory spotlight

Media Bridge Partners

Media Bridge Partners works to improve and transform the internal culture of news organizations and provide teams with the awareness and skills to support people from historically marginalized backgrounds within their ranks.

Dozens of technology companies, foundations, consultants and journalism organizations contribute to ONA’s mission throughout the year. Explore our Industry Directory to discover new tools and potential partners, or learn how to get listed.

Support ONA

There are many ways to help sustain ONA’s mission to inspire and support innovation in digital journalism.

Join as an ONA member
Make a one-time donation
Explore options to reach the ONA community about your event, product, job opening or other opportunity
Invest in ONA programs: Contact Chief Strategic Partnerships Officer Jessica Strelitz, jessica@journalists.org, to learn about philanthropic and corporate support.