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Can’t-miss guide to ONA15: Jeremiah Patterson

Note: This is fourth in a series of posts written by ONA staff and conference organizers recommending sessions they feel will be particularly interesting. Of course, we hope every session is valuable to the right audience, but with so many things happening at ONA15, we want to offer useful highlights from a variety of viewpoints.

Previous recommendations came from Julie Westfall and Luis Gomez, co-chairs of the ONA15 Program Team, as well as Jen Mizgata, ONA’s Senior Communications Manager.


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Jeremiah Patterson

One of the best parts about ONA’s annual conference is the sheer breadth of topics we cover. Whether you’re looking for hands-on podcasting workshops, help with navigating the legalities of drone journalism, advice from funders on securing grants for your projects, understanding and engaging millennials (groan) or practical tips for your daily beat — we have you covered. Continue reading

ONA15 Opening Keynote: A Deep Dive into Google with Richard Gingras & Emily Bell

We’re delighted to announce the opening keynote for the 2015 Online News Association Conference and Awards: a deep-dive chat with Richard Gingras, Google’s Senior Director of News and Social Products, and Emily Bell, Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School.

Richard and Emily will join us Thursday, Sept. 24, in Los Angeles for a candid conversation on the symbiosis — and tensions — between the tech giant and media, covering the critical issues of traffic and search referral, and developing content and data tools for newsrooms, including simple tools to facilitate speedy content on the mobile web.

This fireside chat also will touch on the need to rethink media business models, restrictions on an open internet, privacy concerns overseas and the lack of diversity in Silicon Valley. Continue reading

Get Involved! Opportunities for Students, Mentors and Volunteers at ONA15

We’re recruiting talented students, mentors and those passionate about digital journalism to bring your skills to the Online News Association Conference, Sept. 24-26, in Los Angeles.

The ONA Student Newsroom, funded for the sixth year by Google, provides a unique opportunity for the best and the brightest journalism and tech students to get their work in front of 2,000 digital journalism professionals. Lodging, travel and registration are covered for 20 selected students. Continue reading

ONA15 Keynote Takes Aim at Online Harassment of Women in Media

WASHINGTON, DC — The Online News Association, the world’s largest membership organization of digital journalists, today announced an ONA15 keynote conversation exploring the intense internet harassment directed at women journalists in high-profile instances over the past two years. Continue reading

ONA15 puts ‘Spotlight’ on award-winning Boston Globe investigation and new movie

WASHINGTON, DC — The award-winning team behind the Boston Globe’s intensive investigation into Catholic church abuses will reunite for a keynote conversation at the 2015 Online News Association Conference & Awards Banquet in Los Angeles.

The Spotlight team will be joined by moderator and screenwriter Josh Singer on Saturday, Sept. 26, as they recount their experiences reporting on the complex story which won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2003, and showcase clips from “Spotlight,” the upcoming movie about the project. Singer will talk with the journalists about how the film, starring Liev Schrieber, Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams, compares with real-life reporting as the secrecy and cover-ups unfolded.

In theaters this November, “Spotlight” tells the story of then-Boston Globe Editor Marty Baron (Schreiber), Ben Bradlee Jr. (John Slattery) and the four members of the Globe’s investigative Spotlight team — Walter V. Robinson (Michael Keaton), Mike Rezendes (Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (McAdams) and Matt Carroll (Brian d’Arcy James) — who work to expose the Boston Archdiocese’s systemic cover-up of sexual abuse of children by ordained priests, which went undetected for decades..

“We’re seeing a vital renaissance in investigative journalism in the nonprofit, major media and start-up world,” said ONA Executive Director Jane McDonnell. “We’re delighted this inspiring team will be in Los Angeles to share its expertise.”

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