ONA Weekly #493: New ONA Board Members Start Their Service

Save the dates: The 2024 Online News Association Conference (ONA24) is happening Sept. 18-21 in Atlanta.

New ONA board members start their service

We are pleased to kick off 2024 with a warm welcome to our newest board members, who officially started their two-year term on Jan. 1:

Ethar El-Katatney, News Product Strategy Lead for the Americas, Bloomberg
Ryan Kellett, Vice President, Audience, Axios Media
Lauren Williams, CEO and Co-founder, Capital B

Angela Pacienza, Executive Editor at The Globe and Mail, was appointed for a second term and will continue her service through 2025. Learn more about the 2024-25 Board of Directors.

We also want to extend many thanks to Fergus Bell and Anita Li who completed their board service at the end of 2023. ONA is better for all that you have contributed the past few years!

Mapping the Midwest’s news landscape

Congratulations to The Pivot Fund — the team just announced an expansion of its media landscape analyses to the Great Lakes states with new support from Press Forward members The Joyce Foundation and McKnight Foundation. The research aims to identify news outlets that are trusted by people of color, but that otherwise would not have been considered by the philanthropic organizations looking to boost local news. The findings will inform Press Forward’s local news strategy in the region, starting with Minnesota.

As a fiscal sponsor, ONA has been a steadfast partner in The Pivot Fund’s work since its launch. We look forward to continuing the partnership this year and amplifying the team’s mission as their work expands.

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Calling All Journalism Trailblazers!

Apply now for the 2024-25 JSK Journalism Fellowships at Stanford! Be part of our diverse global community striving for a more informed world. Enrich your personal and professional journey with leadership development, one-on-one coaching, and so much more. Apply now!

Career opportunities

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

Audience Growth Request for Proposal, Billy Penn at WHYY
Development Manager, CalMatters
Associate Digital Producer, Pew Research Center
Program Manager, Artificial Intelligence Engagement, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Development & Growth Reporter, Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation
Audience Editor, Social Media, ProPublica
Writer and Content Development Specialist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Executive Editor for the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR), Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

For ONA members: If you are looking for a new opportunity, complete this form for a chance to be featured in an upcoming edition of Office Hours, ONA’s new monthly Linkedin newsletter about careers in journalism.

On our radar

How Reuters, Newsquest and BBC experiment with generative AI, Jacob Granger for journalism.co.uk
How to report on AI in elections, Amarah Ennis for IJNET
Ad buyers’ takeaways: 11 tactics for generating revenue, Ted Williams for the UNC Center for Innovation & Sustainability in Local Media
How can journalists and academic researchers find common ground?, featuring Tamar Wilner on the It’s All Journalism podcast
Getting beyond the AI existential crisis, Aiha Nguyen for Points by Data & Society

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