ONA Weekly #552: A GenAI Course Tailored To Your Role

By on March 12, 2025

A GenAI course tailored to your role

We’ve been amazed at the level of interest in the 9-Week GenAI Course for Newsrooms. To recap, here’s what you need to know about this new opportunity:

  • Who: We’re setting up three cohorts for this pilot round: Audience Engagement Practitioners, Visual Journalists, and Newsroom Managers. 
  • What: The curriculum includes a mix of practical sessions on topics like advanced prompting and navigating risks, discussions on AI’s impact on a specific role, and design sprint sessions. 
  • When: All sessions will be held online from March 31–May 30. Sessions won’t be recorded, and participants commit to attending at least seven of the nine sessions. You can find specific dates in the application when you select a cohort.

Applications close Thursday, March 13, and we’re reviewing them with the goal to notify everyone next week. If you’re interested in joining, now is your last chance to apply.

Share your ONA25 session ideas

Surely you’ve heard: We’re heading back to New Orleans this September to gather the smartest people in journalism at the ONA25 conference! Whether you’re planning to attend for the first time or have never missed a year, we’d love to hear your session ideas. Submit pitches to the ONA25 Suggestion Box by March 27.

Find ONA on Bluesky

We’ve been hanging out on Bluesky for awhile and recently started sharing occasional updates. Beyond ONA updates, we’re especially interested in more ways to tune into what you—our community members—are thinking through and working on day-to-day, as well as discovering fresh conversations beyond journalism to inform our work. Follow ONA @journalists.org so we can find you as well.

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