ONA Weekly #464: Last Day For ONA23 Early Bird Passes

Early birds: Don’t miss your chance

If you haven’t yet purchased your pass for ONA23: Philadelphia (Aug. 23-26), what are you waiting for?

Early Bird rates expire today, June 7, at 11:59 p.m. EDT. Get your conference pass now. Once you make your decision to attend, book your hotel room — they’re going fast!

Calling all NYC newsletter pros

The third event of our newsletter meetup series is happening in-person in New York on July 18.

Join ONA NYC for lightning talks on audience engagement strategies. Hear about what’s working, lessons learned and how others are experimenting with reaching and engaging communities via newsletters. Register now and meet your fellow ONA community members in the Big Apple.

Thank you to WordPress VIP for its generous support of this event.

Nominate your peers and mentors

ONA members, submit your nominations for the 2023 ONA Community Award, a special recognition for change-makers who have had an extraordinary impact on journalism.

We’re looking for problem-solvers and outliers who effect change, mentors who impacted your career and role models who create a sense of belonging and space for digital journalists to advance their work. Submissions close on June 22.

On the calendar

June 7: ONA23 Early Bird rates Deadline!
June 7: ONA Philly: Welcome back and nice to meet you happy hour RSVP now!
June 13: ONA Spain: Artificial intelligence and journalism
June 22: Deadline: ONA Community Award nominations
June 29: Deadline: ONA23 Scholarship applications
July 18: ONA NYC: Newsletter meetup: Audience engagement strategies for newsletters
Aug. 23–26: ONA23: Philadelphia
Aug. 26: 2023 Online Journalism Awards Ceremony and Banquet
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:

Trending and General Assignment Reporter, The Buffalo News
WGA Producer and WGA Line Producer, Paramount
Executive Director, The Tiny News Collective
Digital and Audience Engagement Editor, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University
P.M. News Editor, The Seattle Times
Trending Politics Reporter, Knoxville News Sentinel
Breaking News Editor, Bloomberg
State Government and Democracy Reporter, Wisconsin Watch

On our radar

We asked 5,000 people across the country what they want from local news. Here’s what we learned, Loretta Chao for American Journalism Project
Stop arguing about objectivity and start serving your audience, Kelly McBride for Poynter
‘The last good website’, Danny Funt for Columbia Journalism Review
Social media referrals for news sites are at an all time low, Zia Muhammad for Digital Information World
Nigeria online newspaper develops inclusive news app for visually impaired, Timothy Obiezu for VOA News

Directory spotlight

Tagboard

Tagboard’s cloud-based audience experience platform helps storytellers produce the most engaging content in the world with a fraction of the resources required by traditional graphics systems. Less hardware. More storytelling.

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.

Share your ONA story
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.