ONA Weekly #535: Post-election Resources

Post-election resources

With many newsrooms soon shifting to post-election coverage of the U.S., we’ve rounded up a few resources to support your work:

• Votebeat Expert Desk and Election Urgent Care: Apply to access the Slack workspace, which will be available from Nov. 5 to at least Dec. 11. Support will be available in areas such as digital safety for journalists, legal assistance, data gathering and more.

• 2024 Election Campaign Toolkit: News Revenue Hub’s fundraising campaign guide includes templates for email appeals, example social media copy, design assets and more to connect with readers in the days leading up to and immediately after Election Day.

• Amplify pro-democracy reporting: Over 170 stories produced for U.S. Democracy Day 2024 are available to republish to bolster communities’ understanding of how democracy works and the threats against it.

• The Morning After: Analyzing the 2024 Presidential Election Results: If you’re in Washington, D.C., join this conversation on Nov. 7 during the Double Exposure festival. Johns Hopkins University Professor Michael D. Cohen and journalists Kate Woodsome and Amanda Becker will discuss their expert observations of this election’s tactics and what it says about Americans as a people. Use the code DX24ONA for 10% off festival passes.

• How to build on election engagement following Nov. 5: Explore practical ideas from API to inform strategies beyond the campaign season, from encouraging civic engagement beyond voting to distilling lessons from election coverage. 

We would also love to hear from you (just reply to this email). How are you approaching post-election coverage and programming? What are you doing differently that other ONA community members could learn from? Any favorite resources we should share widely?

November’s AI innovator meetup

The AI Innovator Collaborative is a monthly gathering for ONA members who are using AI in their journalism work. Join us for the next meeting Tuesday, Nov. 12, to connect with peers and exchange ideas. Sign up now.

One week until DX Fest!

DOUBLE EXPOSURE—happening Nov. 7-10 in Washington, D.C.—is the United States’ first, and still only, investigative film festival and symposium. This year’s festival marks the 10th edition and brings a compelling lineup with themes tackling AI, climate change and political polarization. 

The festival experience offers four days of film screenings with a professional symposium that gathers watchdog journalists and filmmakers venturing into investigative storytelling, such as SEARCHING FOR AMANI, which explores the pressing challenges faced by lush conservancies in Africa due to drought, RELENTLESS MEMORY, a powerful documentary that follows indigenous Mapuche activist Margarita as she retraces her people’s deportation route, and I HOPE THIS HELPS, which encourages viewers to reflect on the shifting relationship between humanity and technology.

Use the code DX24ONA for 10% off when you book your tickets or single- or multi-day festival passes.

Mark your calendar

• Nov. 1: Case Study: Enhancing Fact-Checking with AI at Der Spiegel
• Nov. 7-8: Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival & Symposium (DC) Use code DX24ONA
• Nov. 12: AI Innovator Collaborative
• Dec. 10: AI Innovator Collaborative

Career opportunities

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

• Grants Specialist, KERA NEW!
• Investigative Reporting Fellow, The O’Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism NEW!
• Digital Security Trainer, Freedom of the Press Foundation
• Editor-in-Chief, Phoenix New Times
• Broadcast Engineer, University of Florida
• Community Engagement and Events Manager, The Waco Bridge, The Texas Tribune
• General Manager, The Waco Bridge, The Texas Tribune
• Instructional Assistant Professor of Journalism, Non-Tenure Track, Spring 2025, Chapman University – Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
• Editor-in-Chief, The Waco Bridge, The Texas Tribune
• Veterinary Medical News Reporter, American Veterinary Medical Association
• Digital Fellow, Democracy Now! Productions
• Video News Production Fellow, Democracy Now! Productions
• Los Angeles Issues Reporter, CalMatters
• Data Journalist, WHRO Public Media
• Executive Editor, Policy and Regulation, American Chemical Society
• Managing editor, Growing Community Media
• Education reporter, Growing Community Media
• Radio Operations & Production Coordinator, KERA
• Donor Relations Officer (Fort Worth), KERA
• Arts Access Reporter, KERA (Dallas, Texas)
• Lecturer / Senior Lecturer and Director of CJCxDC, University of Florida (based in Washington, D.C.)

What we’re watching in AI tech

• Anthropic just made it harder for AI to go rogue with its updated safety policy
• Polish radio station ditches DJs, journalists for AI-generated college kids
• The Pentagon wants to use AI to create deepfake internet users
• Penguin Random House has changed the wording on its copyright pages to help protect authors’ intellectual property from being used to train large language models (LLMs) and other artificial intelligence (AI) tools 
• Stability claims its newest Stable Diffusion models generate more ‘diverse’ images