These publishers took advantage of increased COVID-19 traffic to make new connections with their audiences, adding to their email lists and their coffers.
Suggestions
The ONA community helps shape our conference each year by pitching session ideas to the Suggestion Box, Lightning Talks, and Unconference. All the suggestions can be found here.
The Minimum Viable Tech Stack
What is the cheapest tech stack that meets the business needs of a modern, digital, reader-revenue-driven news organization?
Your Newsroom Should Work With Teen Journalists — Here’s How
Increasing engagement, representing marginalized voices, improving newsroom diversity — teen journalists can help with all of these. Is it challenging to work with students? Yes! Will our tips, best practices and case studies help? Yes!
How should news algorithms work? (and how can journalists be a part of this equation)
An interactive discussion about the characteristics of quality news and how to use these to elevate quality in news recommendations and ranking systems.
How to prevent bias from impacting your election coverage
While the view from nowhere doesn’t serve your audience well, unintentional biases from everywhere can be prevented if we better understand the different types and forms of bias.
Midlife crisis with Journalism?
Future-proof your career as the media industry disruption continues
Verifying User Generated Content (UGC) in a Closed Country (Iran)
You will become one of our editorial team, digging into and verifying User Generated Content (UGC) out of a closed society (Iran), verifying or rejecting real videos, photos and social media posts.
There’s a silver lining in the shift to virtual events: What newsrooms have learned from the rapid transition to all things online
How newsrooms can embrace virtual events as an opportunity to serve and listen to loyal and new audiences.
Build the cybernetic newsroom of the future
Explore how the cybernetic newsroom, which increasingly calls on the undisputed power of robots, is shaping the future of journalism
How to find and seize opportunities that make you more marketable in the media industry
What skills are you going to develop that are going to make you stand out from everyone else when it comes to finding your next job, and where are you going to look for it?