Culture and Career

ONA19

Unions and the Movement to Protect Journalists

  • Matt Pearce
  • Danielle Ohl
  • Eric Eddings
  • Moderated by Britt Cheng

Labor unions are having a major impact across the digital media landscape and it’s past time to discuss their role in the newsroom and in the C-suites, how collective bargaining...

ONA18

Building Your Freelancer Brand: Pitch Editors, Tell Stories, Get Paid

  • Kristen Lepore
  • Usha Sahay
  • Ankita Rao
  • Moderated by Meena Thiruvengadam

Freelancers without institutional affiliation rely on editors to survive, but are often working blind about what they look for and how they field pitches. Learning how to...

ONA18

Early-Career Tips From Our 2018 MJ Bear Fellows

  • Tania Karas
  • Anand Katakam
  • Vignesh Ramachandran
  • Benét Wilson

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....

ONA18

Internetting While Brown/Black AND a Woman: A Collective Guide

  • Imaeyen Ibanga
  • Elisa Lees Muñoz
  • Courtney Radsch
  • Versha Sharma

In order for women to contribute diverse perspectives and influence news coverage, they need to be free of the threats and harassment that prevent them from doing their jobs....

ONA18

Is My Zig-Zag Showing? Making the Most of Non-Linear Career Paths

  • Sara Catania
  • Tracie Powell
  • Kim Bui

Between constant and destabilizing industry shifts and a decidedly idiosyncratic workforce, journalism is full of “zig-zagging” professionals who have, intentionally or...

ONA18

Making the (Internal) Case for New Products and Experiments

  • Emily Withrow
  • Rodney Gibbs

You’ve been contemplating that secret idea — a good one that will change everything. But will anyone at your organization take you seriously? Making a successful pitch to...

ONA18

Media Manipulation, Amplification and Responsibility

  • danah boyd

Over the past year, the researchers at Data & Society have looked into a range of cross-cutting issues affecting journalism right now. They’ve discussed media manipulation...

ONA18

Multilingual Journalism With a Small Staff and Almost No Money

  • Vanessa Vancour
  • Michelle Billman
  • Lisa Balde
  • Michelle Miner
  • Moderated by Wendy Warren

Simultaneously speaking to an audience engagement strategy and recognizing an emerging demographic reality, managing multilingual content is becoming an essential journalistic...

ONA18

Notes from the Journalism Diaspora

  • Justin Ellis
  • Claire Gordon

Layoffs, buyouts, reorgs and other factors in the volatile news industry have seeded an ecosystem of news startups, podcasts, documentary films and late night comedy shows with...