Women and communities of color are underserved and underrepresented in digital news, as with every other major institution and field of work. What they need and demand is nothing more … Learn about this subject.
Making the Case for Making the Time: Notes From the Journalism Mentorship Collaborative
The Journalism Mentorship Collaborative, which launched in early 2018, aims to share best practices and fresh ideas for creating more inclusive mentoring opportunities in newsrooms. When executed well, mentorship programs … Learn about this subject.
Beyond Audiograms: Audience Engagement in Podcasting
Audience communities are as unique as the audio products they are built around, and engagement strategies can and should reflect that diversity. From social metrics to SMS chat bots to … Learn about this subject.
Journalism’s Poverty Problem
Income inequality is surging, journalists can’t afford to do their work and the industry is desperate for paying customers. Yet these three strands of poverty in journalism are rarely discussed. … Learn about this subject.
Building Better Tools to Understand Voters and Their Choices
By using emerging technologies in public opinion polling, social listening and personalized research as well as innovative audience engagement strategies, journalists can move beyond anecdotal “from the diner” reporting and … Learn about this subject.
Early-Career Tips From Our 2018 MJ Bear Fellows
The 2018 MJ Bear Fellows will discuss their innovative projects and share tips on how early-career journalists can get buy-in on their ideas and make creative projects happen. Learn about … Learn about this subject.
Setting the Record Straight by Going Wayback
The public web is a fact checker’s dream, but not everything stays up forever. More than just an invaluable contribution to collective memory, the practice of web crawling, indexing and … Learn about this subject.
Digital Journalism Insights 2018: Lightning Talks from ONA Board Candidates
We’ll hear from key leaders in the digital journalism community — candidates for ONA’s Board of Directors — about their approach to balancing innovation, engagement, revenue and, of course, core … Learn about this subject.
The Fear of AI: When Humans and Robots Just Don’t Get Along
Artificial intelligence and machine learning skeptics find sympathetic ears in many newsrooms, where journalists dismiss, criticize and even fear automated tech. Successful cohabitation in the editorial workflow is not only … Learn about this subject.
Global State of Reader Engagement
Chartbeat’s Data Science Chief, Josh Schwartz, offers new research into rich, global, aggregate data speaking to year-on-year trends as they relate to platforms, devices, traffic, acquisition, loyalty, referrals, alerts, apps … Learn about this subject.