Coping With The New Normal
- Benét Wilson
- Kari Cobham
- James Rodriguez
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Moderated by Emma Cillekens
It’s impossible to deny that things have changed—a lot. Much of the world’s media is operating from their living rooms, beds and makeshift home offices. Some are still staffing production booths and hosting live programs. Others have lost their jobs and are seeking work. With any change comes adjustment, as well as a mental and emotional toll. This change is bigger than most, which is why ONA NYC invited a panel of...
2019’s Tech Trends in Journalism
- Amy Webb
- Sam Guzik
Amy Webb will launch the latest edition of Future Today Institute’s emerging tech trends for journalists report, providing insights into...
How to Approach Difficult Conversations: A Guide to Improve Your Newsroom Culture, Your Coverage and Your Life
- Destinée-Charisse Royal
- Lu Ortiz
Difficult conversations are, by definition, challenging. This session will provide tactics to handle tough and tricky newsroom talks that...
Editorial Experiments to Develop and Refine Your Digital Audience Strategy
- Everdeen Mason
Content creation and audience strategy should go hand in hand, but in many newsrooms, audience has an afterthought when deciding what stories to pursue and how to pursue them....
Global State of Reader Engagement
- Josh Schwartz
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,...
Reddit: The Highly-Engaging Content Source That You May Be Overlooking
- Gabriel Sands
- Haley Correll
- Alexandra Ptachick
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Moderated by Anna Kim
Reddit’s 100k+ topic-oriented communities are a tremendously broad and deep resource for anyone sourcing stories, but can be frustratingly labyrinthian for the uninitiated. This...
Journalism in the Climate Change Era with Gina McCarthy
- Gina McCarthy
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Moderated by Mark Schleifstein
Climate change presents enormous public policy challenges worldwide, but in few places are its effects so immediate and acute as the ONA19 host city, New Orleans. Join former EPA...
Platform Partnership Roundup for Local News
- Josh Mabry
- Amy Adams Harding
- Gary Roundtree
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Moderated by Amalie Nash
Major tech platforms have announced partnerships, funding and other opportunities for local news at a dizzying pace over the past year. In this session, we’ll clarify which...
Strategies for Dealing With An Incoherent National Gun Conversation
- Akoto Ofori-Atta
- Lori Shontz
- March for Our Lives
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Moderated by Versha Sharma
Our national conversation on gun culture is an ever-shifting kaleidoscope touching on suicide, handgun violence and mass shootings. By sharing their perspectives on what we get...
Reporting On Immigration In The Age of Polarization and Misinformation
- Jose Vargas
- Peter Perl
- Ethan Zuckerman
Reporting on immigration with accuracy and empathy has always been difficult, a long-term challenge exacerbated by the mendacity and unpredictability of the Trump-era. Join Define...
How Stories Communicate and Engage People with Climate Change on a Local Level
- Clarisa Diaz
- Julia Kumari Drapkin
By applying a design thinking focus to storytelling, audience engagement and participatory projects, science journalists and newsroom leaders can demonstrate different ways of...
Digital Forensics: Using Social and Online Tools to Find Great Stories
- Jane Lytvynenko
- Ashley Feinberg
- Malachy Browne
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Moderated by Michelle Baruchman
Notable figures, like all of us, exhibit specific, personalized behavior online, creating internet footprints visible to anyone via ethical and public digital sleuthing. Join this...
Are You Having a Journalism Midlife Crisis?
- Kim Fox
- Sharon Chan
- Paul Cheung
Want to cheat on journalism? Quit your job and escape the daily content grind? Feel like you have no control over your career? You might be having a midlife crisis with...
Bearing Witness: Vicarious Trauma and Living With A PTSD Diagnosis
- Andy Carvin
After years of exposure to graphic imagery, social reporting pioneer Andy Carvin confronted the consequences of his PTSD diagnosis, radically changing how he approached reporting...
Motherhood: Living It in Newsrooms, Covering It in the World
- Katherine Goldstein
Motherhood is too often dismissed as a fluffy topic for lifestyle pages, rather than one in dire need of serious reporting on its intersections with healthcare, economics, public...
