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 […]
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YouTube for journalists
October 30, 2010 – 12:20 pm
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
October 30, 2010 – 12:53 am
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
October 30, 2010 – 12:00 am
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
October 29, 2010 – 11:43 pm
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
October 29, 2010 – 11:16 pm
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
October 29, 2010 – 11:02 pm
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 […]
Making new media work
October 29, 2010 – 10:59 pm
A leadership duo from two of the world’s largest media companies said that continuous adaptation to a changing journalism market will make or break a news organization’s existence. Tim Armstrong, CEO of AOL, told journalists at the ONA keynote luncheon today that one of the main concerns of media outlets is how to monetize online […]
WSJ experiments with social media to tell narratives
October 29, 2010 – 10:37 pm
Zach Seward, outreach editor of The Wall Street Journal Online, told a packed conference session on social media storytelling how the Wall Street Journal has experimented with using the popular social networking sites Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare to tell narratives.
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A look at the 2010 OJA winners
October 31, 2010 – 12:59 am
ONA 2010 in (stop) motion
– 12:33 am
Leading off: Kinsey Wilson wins Rich Jaroslovsky award
– 12:22 am
How to harness your inner entrepreneur
October 30, 2010 – 10:16 pm
Online Journalism Awards honor the best of the best
– 10:14 pm
Awards reveal a few surprises
– 10:07 pm
Panelists talk strategy for community editorials
– 10:05 pm
Scenes from a rally
– 10:00 pm
Twitter after hours
– 9:32 pm
News app developers share tips and tricks
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Panel grapples with commenting policies
When Andrew Noyes, Facebook’s manager of public policy communication, asked a packed room of journalists how many of their news organizations did not have a Facebook page, not a single person raised a hand.