ONA Weekly #452: Announcing ONA’s Executive Women Leaders Salon

Executive Women Leaders Salon

ONA is hosting a three-part conversation series designed to create a connecting space for women in executive digital journalism leadership. At the Executive Women Leaders Salon, selected attendees will network and develop skills around cultivating organizational resilience, find creative ways to support the professional development and growth of their teams and work through their unique challenges and opportunities for development and success.

Sessions in this series:

Building and leading innovative teams (April 25 on Zoom)
Navigating recruitment and onboarding to C-suite positions (June 15 on Zoom)
Cultivating organizational resilience (Aug. 23 at the 2023 Online News Association Conference in Philadelphia)

While all executive women leaders are welcome, ONA members can sign up for the series early and at a discounted rate. The cost of registration includes an ONA23 conference badge, which gives attendees access to the full range of exciting programming at ONA23. To learn more about this series, read the program FAQ, and sign up to receive an update when applications open at the end of March.

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ONA Career Day resources

Thank you to everyone who attended our second annual Career Day! We had more than 500 opportunity-seekers and recruiters from AP, The Carter Center, Hearst Newspapers, Houston Landing, Inside Washington Publishers, The Marshall Project, McClatchy, Pew Research Center, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Report for America, Spectrum, Stand Together and The Washington Post.

If you want to revisit (or view for the first time!) this year’s live sessions, we’ve got you covered. Whether you’re just starting out in the industry, looking to pivot or are a seasoned veteran, Understanding Your Career Path to Know Your Worth has insights on how to look inward as you survey what’s out there. For those who registered for Career Day, use your access key to view Lay-Off Proof Your Career, available through April 8, along with all other on-demand Career Day programming. You also still have time to add your resume to our database.

Interested in career development opportunities from ONA? Sign up to receive updates.

On the calendar

March 29: Newsletter meetup: Newsletter metrics and tracking success
April 20: Newsletter meetup: Marketing, subscriber growth, partnerships and revenue
April 25: Executive Women Leaders Salon: Building and leading innovative teams (Virtual)
June 15: Executive Women Leaders Salon: Navigating recruitment and onboarding to executive positions (Virtual)
July 18: Newsletter meetup: Audience engagement strategies for newsletters (in-person, New York City)
Aug. 23: Executive Women Leaders Salon: Cultivating organizational resilience (in-person at ONA23)
Aug. 23–26: ONA23: Philadelphia
Aug. 26: 2023 Online Journalism Awards Ceremony
Sept. 28–29: ONA23: Onward (Virtual)

Career opportunities

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

Digital News Editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Manager of Enterprise Content, WTKR, E.W. Scripps Company
Central Indiana Editor-in-Chief, Indiana Local News Initiative
Associate Editor, American Society of Association Executives
Newsroom Team Leader, Houston Landing
Director of Multimedia, Hearst Newspapers
Campaign Communications Director, Executive Communications Director, Solidarity Center
Deputy Editor, Modern Healthcare

On our radar

2022 News Nerd Survey: Overall findings, Mago Torres for Source
Very Online, Karen Maniraho for Columbia Journalism Review
Publishers move past seeing social media platforms as traffic drivers, Sara Guaglione for Digiday
Liza Donnelly on the power of cartoons, Julia Laquerre for Story Bench
What newsroom leaders should know about working with Gen Z employees, Anastasiia Shevchenko for The Fix

P.S. from the ONA team

It’s time to officially welcome LaSharah S. Bunting to the ONA team! It’s her first week with us as CEO and executive director and we can’t wait to see all the incredible things we’ll accomplish together.
The first ONA23 newsletter launches this Thursday! Sign up for the biweekly conference newsletter now.

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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
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Invest in ONA programs: Contact Chief Strategic Partnerships Officer Jessica Strelitz, jessica@journalists.org, to learn about philanthropic and corporate support.