ONA15
Navigating Uncharted YouTube Territory
- Raney Aronson-Rath
- Chad Mumm
- Tim Pool
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Moderated by Valerie Streit
Established and emerging news organizations have spent the past year testing new, unproven video formats on YouTube. Their efforts range from creating original content channels to...
Reimagining Video Distribution for the Social Age
- Sara Catania
- Eric Neel
Too often, you spend a lot of time building an incredible video package, only to realize you have to retrofit your final content to a variety of social media channels. Two top...
Structured Journalism: Can news be as modular as Lego?
Structured Journalism is about breaking digital news down into its most fundamental parts and pieces, and then rebuilding it into novel and exciting journalism products....
A Contested Matchup: Exclusivity, Pro Sports Coverage and Digital Newsrooms
- Andrew Moger
- Matt Moreno
TV networks buy up rights for exclusive coverage of pro sports events, making it difficult for many newsrooms to show highlights. How do these exclusive agreements affect coverage...
From Scheherazade to Snapchat: Ancient Storytelling Practices that Win the Internet for Good
- Amy O'Leary
In an age where algorithms are determining much of what we see, there’s a scramble to “reinvent” storytelling for a digital age. But taking the long view (and we mean a...
Simple News Graphics for Reporters and Editors
- David Yanofsky
Hear from Quartz’s David Yanofsky on how everyone benefits from letting journalists with no formal graphics training make their own charts and graphs and learn what you can...
Where Science Meets Storytelling: Reporting from the Unsurfaced Web
- Ted Bailey
- Gregory Gittrich
- Damien Patton
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Moderated by Áine Kerr
This session will focus on how new media and technology ventures are exploring beyond trending topics and using public data to discover exclusive stories, hidden perspectives, and...
Starting It Up: Inside + Outside Your Newsroom
The Unconference is a chance for conference attendees to propose conversations on topics we may not have covered elsewhere. Topics were pitched and voting was held at the...
UX = User + Experience
- Damon Kiesow
Do you need to read Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” to build a great mobile user experience? No, but understanding what makes a tool “present-at-hand”...