Culture and Career

ONA18

OMGWTFBBQ Breaking News without Breaking Your Team

  • Hamilton Boardman
  • Nasr ul Hadi
  • Steph Yiu

Your biggest night of the year may be planned, like an awards show or election, or unplanned, like a natural disaster or political scandal. In either case, high-pressure,...

ONA18

Pivot to Union

  • Matt Pearce
  • Alicia Ramirez
  • Meghan McCarron

Digital media unionization has gone from afterthought to Twitter cause célèbre as campaigners have overcome political headwinds to successfully organize some of the most...

ONA18

Real News Job Market: Who, What, When, Where

  • Yustina Saleh
  • Annalyn Kurtz
  • Stuart Muller
  • Moderated by Jeff Jarvis

Conventional wisdom and Bureau of Labor Statistics data agree: journalism employment has struggled for a decade. A new analysis of 40 million online listings from Tow-Knight and...

ONA18

Remixing Content: Refining Your Workflow to Make Your Work Flow

  • Alex Hicks
  • Nasr ul Hadi
  • Ryan Sholin
  • Eric Carvin
  • Moderated by Angela Pacienza

This panel will discuss ways to make workflows meet your newsroom’s distribution needs without bloating them. We are industry experts who work to simplify and iterate on process ...

ONA18

The “Digital People”: Creating Your Own Culture in a Large Media Organization

  • Ted Anthony
  • Stephanie Adrouny
  • Nadine Ajaka
  • Polly Irungu
  • Moderated by Julie Shapiro

The digital newsrooms at TV and radio stations, newspapers and magazines often operate as independent divisions with invisible strings to their legacy broadcast or print...

ONA18

Tips for Sharing When You Get Home

  • Andrew Losowsky
  • Corvaya Jeffries

You made it! It’s the final session block of the conference! Three jam-packed days will leave you bursting with great ideas, but sometimes the reality of Monday morning means...

ONA17

Early-Career Tips From Our 2017 MJ Bear Fellows

  • Subhashish Panigrahi
  • Kelly Moffitt
  • Mollie Bloudoff-Indelicato
  • Moderated by Benét Wilson and Jennifer Mizgata

Our newest MJ Bear Fellows will discuss their innovative projects and share tips on how to early-career journalists can get buy-in on their ideas and make creative projects...

ONA17

No, You’re a Lying Werewolf

  • Kim Bui
  • David Cohn
  • Robert Hernandez

Werewolf is a card game that has slowly infiltrated the journalism and ONA community. This will be a talk that will, in a humorous fashion, teach people the history of the game.,...

ONA17

The Art of Getting S**t Done

  • Elena Bergeron
  • Justin Ellis
  • S. Mitra Kalita

Let’s get real: this business is rife with obstacles, both personal and professional (and that tricky space in-between). We’ll talk about how to achieve your goals — be they ...