ONA Weekly #495: Your AI Training Wishlist

Your AI training wishlist

AI will continue to be a big focus for the programming and resources we offer throughout 2024. We want to hear from you along the way about the opportunities that would be most responsive to your needs and interests as they evolve.

Reply directly to this email to tell us:

• What AI tools would you be eager to try out, with some hands-on guidance?
• What AI-powered work are you admiring so far this year from your journalism peers?
• Whose perspective needs to be amplified in the discussion about AI in journalism?

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In a new post for ONA, our partners at Desk-Net outline the steps and strategies to incorporate audience-led planning into your work. Learn how to analyze your audience, collaborate effectively with your team, and implement audience insights to transform your content creation process. By prioritizing quality over quantity and leveraging flexibility and timeliness, you can create content that captivates your target readership.

ICYMI: Career wayfinding with Jessica Stretliz

Jessica Strelitz led business development and partnerships at ONA for nearly 11 years. Jessica moved on from the organization at the end of 2023, but not before generously sharing important lessons from her career in journalism so far — both inside and outside newsrooms. Read the latest Office Hours newsletter for her reflections on management, team building and why journalists have such strong skills for business development.

Career opportunities

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

• Director of the Center for Sports Communication, Marist College
• Podcast and Video Editor, American Chemical Society
• Ted Scripps Fellowships in Environmental Journalism, Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder
• Head of National Programs, The Lenfest Institute for Journalism
• Human Services Reporter, The Connecticut Mirror
• Senior Editor (Culture) and Digital Copy Editor/Web Producer, Texas Monthly
• Deputy Director of Development, The Forward
• Full Professor/Chair, University of Rhode Island

On our radar

• These tools will take your data to a new level — or decibel, Jade Khatib for Storybench
• These universities are crafting a plan to revitalize news in the South, Meg Little Reilly for Forbes
• Fact-checking journalism is evolving, not stagnating, Peter Cunliffe-Jones and Lucas Graves for Nieman Lab
• How we used an FOI project to show the public the power they can wield, Tom Cardoso for Source
• Synthetic Memories: Generating the past, Quartz Obsession podcast