Monthly Archives: <span>October 2010</span>

No winner for new student award

“We’re not just going to give an award because it’s a statue we have”

What's the word? ONA10 word cloud

Find out the most frequently tweeted words at the Online News Association conference.

The word cloud, created with Many Eyes, a data visualization prject by IBM, represents tweets that included the hashtags #ONA and #ONA10 written between noon yesterday and 9 a.m. this morning.

Day one photo review

ONA 2010 Conference – Day 1 from Online News Association on Vimeo. Day one of the ONA 2010 conference kicked off on Friday, providing attendees with lots of sessions to attend, entertaining keynotes and plenty of social time. People roamed the halls and met some of their friends to catch up, while others sat close to […]

Patch founder fields tough questions

As attendees of the Online News Association Conference ate and listened to America Online’s Tim Armstrong talk about the roots of AOL’s fast-growing, hyperlocal website Patch.com, comments began brewing. It was time for the audience to have a say. Those brave enough to take a mic tiptoed around the question Robert Hernandez said he knew […]

YouTube for journalists

Steve Grove, head of news and politics at YouTube, highlighted a few resources and tips that YouTube and Google offer for new organizations and journalists. The session will be repeated today at 2pm in Room 12.

You invent it, they fund it

Previous Knight News Challenge winners doled out advice to entrepreneurial journalists vying for a chunk of the organization’s award money at a Saturday afternoon panel called, “You Invent It, They Fund It.” Now in its fifth year, Knight News Challenge — which is part of the Knight Foundation — awards up to $5 million a […]

Google maps: Look who's here

We took ONA data on where the 890 attendees were from and plugged it into Google Fusion to create a quick look at ONA’s geographic outreach.

Treesaver leads the way

The next generation of webpage design, like Star Trek, wants to go where no webpage has gone before.

Three legal considerations that didn't exist before the Internet

Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press, spoke with journalists Friday as part of a panel on the legal issues affecting journalists today.

Journalists reluctant to discuss Wikileaks at conference

Tomorrow’s keynote session, “A Wikileaks Download,” will focus on  how the leaking of hundreds of thousands of classified documents about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will affect journalism and the role of the Internet in news. But several ONA attendees asked to talk today on camera about the organization’s means of  leaking the classified […]