The call for entries for the 2016 Online Journalism Awards is now open, and we couldn’t be more excited. With 35 categories and $53,500 in prize money, the awards honor … Read more.
What Journalists Can Learn from Game Designers About Engagement
Game designers know how to create immersive and transformational storytelling experiences, using rigorous user feedback testing and rapid iteration. Closing keynote speaker Lindsay Grace, head of American University’s Game Lab … Learn about this subject.
ONA Weekly #82
ONA Weekly No. 82 New fact-checking site launches today Add this resource to your toolkit: Truthbetold.news is a fact-checking website that examines claims about the black community in public debate. … Read more.
Virtual Reality in a Material World
Over the past three years, VR journalism has proven it can create compelling, immersive stories unlike anything our communities can experience online. We’ve assembled some of the most intrepid pioneers … Learn about this subject.
360 Video for Newsrooms of Any Size
New immersive storytelling tools may seem financially out of reach, but newsrooms of nearly any size can create experimental prototypes with affordable, consumer-model 360 video cameras. Thomas Wallner, award-winning director … Learn about this subject.
Create Your Own Virtual Reality Journalism
With the upcoming introduction of consumer products like the Oculus Rift, VR is on the cusp of emerging as its own unique media form — leading to perhaps another disruption … Learn about this subject.
What Journalists Can Learn from Game Designers
Game designers know something all journalists could learn from: how to create immersive and transformational storytelling experiences, by rigorous user feedback testing and rapid iteration. As inherently skilled software makers, … Learn about this subject.
11 projects win second round of $1M challenge to hack journalism education
WASHINGTON, DC — Eleven projects from 13 U.S. universities each won a $35,000 micro-grant to seed collaborative news experiments in living labs — their communities, the Online News Association (ONA) … Read more.
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Wednesday, Jul. 23, 2014
ONA Boston: Why Diversity Matters in Online Journalism
An ONA Local event, hosted by ONA Boston
Join us for a panel discussion about diversity in online newsrooms.