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(Re)writing Broadcast Scripts for Web

  • Kristen Reed
  • Erica Proffer
  • Moderated by Samanthi Dissanayake

When publishing to multiple platforms, broadcast producers face serious resource constraints and deadline challenges, too often default to simply throwing roughly edited TV...

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2018 Educators’ Meetup

  • Moderated by Jody Brannon

The first hour of the annual Educators’ Meetup will feature presentations from the 2018 Tow-Knight fellows, part of the Disruptive Journalism Educators Network on Facebook. The...

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2018 Lightning Talks

Bound to be electrifying, ONA is hosting an energetic round of community-pitched lightning talks where attendees present their Big Idea in Journalism. But they have to keep it...

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2018 Online Journalism Awards Ceremony

  • Niala Boodhoo

Join us for our annual celebration of the best work in digital journalism as we recognize the Online Journalism Awards finalists and announce winners live. This event, which...

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2018’s Tech Trends For Journalists

  • Amy Webb

What are the most important emerging tech trends that will radically transform journalism in 2019? Find out in this perennially-packed annual ONA session bringing the future-think...

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360 Video as a Reporting Tool: How and When to Break News with Immersive Video

  • Veda Shastri

Using 360 video and virtual reality is, plainly, different from flat video coverage, with production time, editing and file size challenges, among others. It is also an...

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A Seat at the Table

  • Elena Bergeron
  • Sharon Chan
  • Kristie Gonzales
  • Moderated by Noelle Swan

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...

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Advise, Explain, Engage: Grow Membership and Build Loyalty with a Successful Column

  • Alex Samuels
  • Evan Mackinder
  • D. Patrick Rodgers

A successful column – like Slate’s Dear Prudence, the Advice King at the Nashville Scene or the Texas Tribune’s Texplainer – can be a simple but powerful centerpiece of an ...

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Alerts, Apps and Algorithms: Loyalty in a Mobile-First World

  • Coleen OLear
  • Emily Ingram
  • Nathalie Malinarich
  • Mark Alford
  • Moderated by Emily Bell

The best audiences are those that are engaged across multiple platforms. In what is rapidly becoming a mobile-first world, news aggregators, push alerts and various algorithms are ...