Leadership

ONA Local

Product Management Thinking for the Newsroom

  • Cindy Royal
  • Becca Aaronson
  • Moderated by Amy Schmitz Weiss

What is product management? How can product management thinking help your newsroom and community? This training features insights to better understand product management and how...

ONA20

Driving Towards Digital Change with Embedded Editors

The Wall Street Journal has created a hub-and-spoke system to help drive towards great journalism. The Journal’s team of strategy editors are embedded with each coverage...

ONA20

On the Ground in 2020: Before, During and After Unrest

  • Alison Baskerville
  • Emily Sachs
  • Eliot Stempf
  • Moderated by Hannah Allam

As the 2020 election and ongoing protests bring political tension in the U.S. to new heights, this session will offer practical safety and trauma advice for journalists on the...

ONA19

A Balanced Diet for Digital Products: Cross-Functional Teams and Stakeholder “Food Groups”

  • Kellen Henry
  • Becky Pallack

In order to develop effective digital journalism products, newsroom leaders need to understand the different “food groups” involved, including editorial, advertising,...

ONA19

Changing Biased Systems in Newsrooms

  • Nicole Carroll
  • Siri Chilazi
  • S. Mitra Kalita
  • Raju Narisetti
  • Moderated by Soraya Chemaly

This event is presented by Women’s Media Center This session will address what can be done to make institutional change and better reflect the needs of a diverse population and...

ONA19

Editorial Experiments to Develop and Refine Your Digital Audience Strategy

  • Everdeen Mason

Content creation and audience strategy should go hand in hand, but in many newsrooms, audience has an afterthought when deciding what stories to pursue and how to pursue them....

ONA19

How to Approach Difficult Conversations: A Guide to Improve Your Newsroom Culture, Your Coverage and Your Life

  • Destinée-Charisse Royal
  • Lu Ortiz

Difficult conversations are, by definition, challenging. This session will provide tactics to handle tough and tricky newsroom talks that will help turn uncomfortable conflicts...

ONA19

How to Get Sh** Done in a Remote Workplace and Beyond

  • Anna Perling
  • Kaitlyn Wells
  • Adam Schweigert

How can you work well while working remotely? In this presentation, we’ll introduce you to the basics and beyond of a few powerful tools to help you manage projects, communicate ...

ONA19

How to Hire (and Invest In) the Interns

  • Kristen East

The interns are the next generation of journalists, and newsrooms must be able to effectively recognize and cultivate talent to help build their career foundations. Join this...