ONA16
Storytelling from the Smartphone Lock Screen
- Eric Bishop
- Adam Pasick
- Madeline Welsh
The Quartz app was only a few days old when it sent a push alert that gave us all goosebumps: Author Harper Lee has died at the age of 89. “Shoot all the blue jays you want, if...
Local Newscasts: Adapt or Die?
- Emily Dresslar
- Adriano Farano
- Katie Larson
- Andrew Pergam
If you’re a local TV news broadcaster, chances are you’re busy honing your approach to web video. Help is on the way. Hear strategies and outcomes from a top local broadcast...
Getting into the Weed: Launching a Successful Niche Digital Media Product
- Ricardo Baca
- Sarah Frank
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Moderated by Nushin Rashidian
Journalism covering cannabis has moved well beyond close-up photos of strains in magazine centerfolds. A community that is millions strong is engaging with weed news on plenty of...
Planning Chat for Scale by Predicting a Two-Way Conversation
- Emily Withrow
- Zach Seward
- Ariana Tobin
Chat apps and text messages are wonderful tools for starting a back-and-forth conversation with your audience. But as your audience grows into the thousands, how do you maintain...
Latinos and the 2016 Election: Reporting on Communities Regardless of Your Background
- Jose Olivares
- Kelly Ann Scott
- Natalie Van Hoozer
- Vanessa Vancour
Noticiero Móvil is an experiment that provides 2016 election coverage to empower Latinos, funded by an ONA/Knight Foundation grant. College students working on the project are...
Designing Journalism for a Digital Conversation
- Monica Guzmán
- Terry Parris Jr.
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Moderated by Josh Stearns
From the rise of chat apps to the successful re-invigoration of newsletters with personality, it’s obvious audiences are hungry for new ways to connect with news and...
Engaging Audiences with Live “High Def” Journalism
- Megan Finnerty
- Liz Nelson
USA TODAY launched a 10-event “variety show” format series of gatherings composed of one-on-one interviews, storytelling and performances. In doing so, it created...
Rethinking ‘Diversity’: How to Cover Race & Inclusion
- Dawn Ennis
- Chip Mahaney
- Imaeyen Ibanga
- Tracie Powell
Definitions aren’t black and white, so how can we better define “inclusion”? Why is the term “diversity” losing favor? We’ll look at examples of how stories can better...
The Election Will Not Be Televised: The 2016 Presidential Reality Show on Social
- Ashley Codianni
- Versha Sharma
The 2016 presidential race is unlike anything we’ve seen in generations — and we’ve never had more tools to cover it. We’ll talk about the process for producing pieces on...