ONA Weekly #546: Meet Your ONA Board Officers

Meet your ONA board officers

ONA’s Board of Directors voted on officer positions during their Jan. 28 meeting. We’re excited to share that Angela Pacienza, Executive Editor at The Globe and Mail, now serves in a new role as ONA Board Secretary, while Andrew Fitzgerald, Senior Vice President of Streaming Video Services at Hearst Television, was re-elected for another one-year term as Treasurer. Niketa Patel, Senior Director, Leadership Programs, at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, and Charo Henríquez, are serving the second of their two-year term as Vice President and President, respectively.

We are also pleased to extend a warm welcome to our newest board members, who started their two-year term on Jan. 1 and joined their first board meeting this week: Angela Chao, Head of Global News and Director of Content at Healthline Media, and Donesha Aldridge, Executive Producer of Digital Content at WXIA 11Alive. Learn more about ONA’s board leadership.

Does your local news coverage reflect your community?

Source Matters, a project of the American Press Institute, supports publishers to track and diversify sources in order to increase audience engagement and ultimately improve their journalism. In a new post for ONA, Director of Product Strategy Liz Worthington highlights how local newsrooms have benefited from source tracking.

API, in partnership with ONA, is also hosting a learning event Thursday, Jan. 30, 12:30-1:30 p.m. ET, to dive more into this approach. The discussion will cover specific cases of how organizations like Colorado Public Radio and San Antonio Report have applied source tracking to adapt their storytelling strategies and strengthen trust in their communities. Register now.

From the ONA Slack

• Any recommendations for a data visualization expert to map local news and community info systems in Pennsylvania? 
• What tool(s) are you using to post to Bluesky? 
• Students have until Friday, Jan. 31, to apply for paid internships in one of 11 newsrooms within the Rural News Network.

Mark your calendar

• Jan. 30: Source tracking fosters responsive engagement and improves your journalism
• Feb. 5: Mini-Lab: AI Tools for Video Creation
• Feb. 11: AI Innovator Collaborative
• March 11: AI Innovator Collaborative
• March 19: Advanced Prompt Writing for AI 
• April 8: AI Innovator Collaborative
• April 9: Mini-Lab: Advanced Prompt Writing
• April 30: Advanced AI Data Journalism Tools
• May 13: AI Innovator Collaborative
• May 14: AI for Freelancers
• June 4: Mini-Lab: AI for Freelancers 
• June 10: AI Innovator Collaborative
• July 8: AI Innovator Collaborative
• Aug. 12: AI Innovator Collaborative
• Sept. 10-13: ONA25 in New Orleans 
• Oct. 14: AI Innovator Collaborative
• Nov. 11: AI Innovator Collaborative
• Dec. 9: AI Innovator Collaborative

Career opportunities

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

• Head of Development and Donor Relations, The Lenfest Institute for Journalism NEW!
• Staff Writer, Miami New Times NEW!
• Assistant Professor – Digital Journalism, SUNY Old Westbury NEW!
• Science Reporting Intern, The Transmitter NEW!
• Director of Content and News Media, University of Pennsylvania 
• Open-rank Career-track Professor (Broadcast and Video Reporting), Arizona State University
• Executive Editor, Anchorage Daily News LLC
• Open-rank Career-track Professor (Multimedia and Audience Engagement), Arizona State University
• Open-rank Career-track Professor (Digital Reporting and Editing), Arizona State University
• Editorial Intern 2025, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
• Assistant Professor in Journalism and Digital Media, California State University, Fullerton
• Development Director, States Newsroom
• Librarian for Journalism and Media, Culture and Communication, NYU Libraries
• Politics Editor, CalMatters

What we’re watching in AI tech

• AI mistakes are very different from human mistakes
• French AI chatbot “Lucie”, backed by Macron and public funds, is facing criticism after providing inaccurate information. Even its logo has been questioned.
• From Freakonomics Radio, a conversation on how to poison the A.I. machine with computer scientist Ben Zhao
• DeepSeek FAQ

Elsewhere on our radar

• How young Kenyans turned to news influencers when protesters stormed the country’s parliament, Maurice Oniang’o for Nieman Lab
• What does Silicon Valley want?, Brian Chen for Data & Society
• Influencer collaborations: Lessons from four months of local news experiments, Kevin Loker and Samantha Ragland for American Press Institute