The Reynolds Journalism Institute has awarded 51 fellows since it was first funded in 2004. Projects focus on revenue growth and efficient use of technology, as well as driving community engagement.
Up and coming digital journalists under 30 are eligible for ONA's MJ Bear Fellowship, granting resources and recognition to those who have already shown commitment to their field. This year's application deadline is June 6.
As news production and consumption evolves with its technology, ethics are also bound to change form. The Online News Association is tackling this with a crowdsourced ethics code project: Build Your Own Ethics Code, publicly presented for the first time this week by the project manager, Associated Press Standards Editor Tom Kent, is ready for your input.
Got a hot idea related to media, data, or information? Need funding or other support to bring it from concept to demo? The next deadline to apply for the Knight Prototype Fund is May 1.
The Online News Association's annual conference and award banquet is such a heavy-hitting event that it's sold out seven straight years in a row. This year, it will be held Sept. 25-27 in Chicago.
It’s a headline that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago.
Alaska Dispatch, a six-year-old born-on-the-web news site, has reached an agreement to purchase the Anchorage Daily News, which produces the state’s largest newspaper and most-read news site.
This week the Online News Association announced winners of the ONA 2014-15 Challenge Fund grants. This program supports journalism schools in seeding collaborative news experiments in living labs: their communities. These projects could provide useful examples, and perhaps function in partnership with, other local news/engagement efforts.
Digital news and engagement lessons from around the world will be highlighted this weekend at the 15th annual International Symposium on Online Journalism, April 4-5 at the University of Texas-Austin. Participants from over 40 countries will offer a powerful look at today's media zeitgeist.