ONA Weekly #482: Broadcast Journalists Virtual Meetup

Broadcast journalists virtual meetup

Add our next meetup to your calendar: We’re calling all those who work on audience engagement in broadcast news to gather with us online Nov. 8. Share ideas during breakout discussions, meet other professionals and leave with inspiration. This event is free for ONA members and open to everyone. Register now.

To discuss sponsorship opportunities, contact Chief Strategic Partnerships Officer Jessica Strelitz at jessica@journalists.org.

Fellowships and innovation

It can be tough to step away from the busy news cycle to work on innovative projects, but a journalism fellowship can provide the time and resources to pursue great ideas and learn new skills. In the ONA23: Philadelphia session How to Think Like a Change Agent: Building Your Skills to Spur Innovation with a Journalism Fellowship, Lynette Clemetson, Director of the Knight-Wallace Fellowships at the University of Michigan, explores how to maximize a fellowship.

From the ONA Slack

• Who is in Atlanta? We just created the #local-atlanta channel in the ONA Slack to help you find each other. (Save the dates: ONA24 is Sept. 18-21 in the ATL!)
• Let’s organize a meetup in Boston this month?
• Resources on news, captions and accessibility, from ONA23 speaker Alicia Zuckerman
• What podcasts are great examples of solutions journalism, engaged journalism and the like?

On the calendar 

• Oct. 15: Order ONA23 merchandise
• Oct. 25: ONA Spain: Cómo implicar a la comunidad en tu periodismo (How to involve the community in your journalism) (Virtual) New!
• Oct. 26: ONA Atlanta: AI in action: How to harness the power of AI in newsrooms New!
• Nov. 8: Audience engagement professionals in broadcast news meetup (Virtual) New!

Career opportunities 

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

• Software Engineer, States Newsroom 
• Editor-in-Chief, Quanta Magazine, Simons Foundation
• Temporary Audience Editor, ProPublica 
• Associate Editor, MinnPost  
• Digital Production Manager, Pew Research Center 
• Social Media Producer, Honolulu Civil Beat
• Editor / Professor of the Practice in Journalism, Boston University 
• Director of Revenue, The 74 Media

On our radar

• This app from TheCable makes news accessible to people with disabilities in Nigeria, Patrick Egwu for International Journalists’ Network
• How community listening can help shape election-year coverage, Susan Benkelman for the American Press Institute
• Black Americans’ experiences with news, Pew Research Center
• Product manager diary: Learning to work with vendors and development teams outside of your organization, Madison Karas for Source (OpenNews)
• Canadian media is far too reliant on U.S. tech. Here’s what the government can do about it, Mark Lloyd for The Conversation

P.S. from the ONA team…

• Congratulations to our CEO and Executive Director LaSharah S. Bunting, who has joined the Board of Managers at the Lenfest Institute for Journalism!

Directory spotlight

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.