Welcome to the ONA18 session page! Below, you can click on sessions for detailed information, and also apply filters by track, session type or day. If you have any questions, please email us at ona18@journalists.org.
Conference Schedule
Pre-conference - Wednesday, September 12
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Day 1 - Thursday, September 13
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Membership Has Its Benefits
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Lessons from Black Twitter: Inclusive Reporting in Diverse Communities
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Real News Job Market: Who, What, When, Where
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[MIDWAY] Take a Deep Dive into Video Programming: Building Credibility, Understanding AI, + Exploring New Tools
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How to Innovate As a Journalism Educator
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[RSVP] Vicarious Trauma Response Planning
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Alerts, Apps and Algorithms: Loyalty in a Mobile-First World
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How’s My Story Doing? Custom Analytics and Empowered Local Newsrooms
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Advise, Explain, Engage: Grow Membership and Build Loyalty with a Successful Column
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[RSVP] J-School Supplemental: Product Management
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Subscriptions, Metrics and the Newsroom: How Journalists are Getting Involved
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[RSVP] How to Innovate (and Make Money Doing It)
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Early-Career Tips From Our MJ Bear Fellows
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Is My Zig-Zag Showing? Making the Most of Non-Linear Career Paths
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Beyond Audiograms: Audience Engagement in Podcasting
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How to Please Every Platform and Make Video Distribution Work
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Beyond Facebook: How to Survive and Thrive After Newsfeed Changes
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Are You Running an Experiment, or Just Winging It?
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[RSVP] J-School Supplemental: Budget Basics
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[FEATURED] Strategies for Dealing With An Incoherent National Gun Conversation
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Why Should I Care About AI? [Sponsored]
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[MIDWAY] ICFJ Presents: Steal My Tool
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The Male Allies Toolkit
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Ten Secrets of Fast Writing and Powerful Storytelling
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[FEATURED] Global State of Reader Engagement
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Digital Journalism Insights: Lightning Talks from ONA Board Candidates and VIP Meetup
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OMGWTFBBQ Breaking News without Breaking Your Team
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[RSVP] Mapping Beyond Excel with ArcGIS Maps
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Meet Me IRL
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Educators’ Meetup
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J-School Supplemental: Statistics and Research Methods
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Let's Talk About What Works With Local [Sponsored]
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Screening and Discussion: “The Wall: Unknown Stories. Unintended Consequences” [Sponsored]
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Career Advice From the Women’s Leadership Accelerator
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6:00 pm
Day 2 - Friday, September 14
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8:00 am
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[MIDWAY] Deep Dive into Data: Find It, Verify It, Visualize It
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Table Talks: Audience Engagement, Growth and Analytics
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Table Talks: Mission, Ethics, Culture and Career
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Table Talks: Business Models and Entrepreneurship
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Table Talks: Product Design and Development
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Table Talks: Reporting Tools and Techniques
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Journalism 360 Immersive Storytelling Festival
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Misinformation Midterms? Understanding the Anatomy of Online Smears and Conspiracies [Sponsored]
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[MIDWAY] Remixing Content: Refining Your Workflow to Make Your Work Flow
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Table Stakes: Getting into the Game of Digital-First Local News
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360 Video as a Reporting Tool: How and When to Break News with Immersive Video
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Email as a Driver of Innovation and Loyalty (Yes, Email)
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Internetting While Brown/Black AND a Woman: A Collective Guide
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Verificado 2018: Global Lessons Learned from Debunking Fake News in Mexican Elections
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Multilingual Journalism With a Small Staff and Almost No Money
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Closed Networks are Revolutionary for Oppressed People and Reporters Covering Them
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Notes from the Journalism Diaspora
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[RSVP] J-School Supplemental: FOI Requests
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[FEATURED] Expert Investigative Journalism Advice with John Carreyrou
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How CrowdTangle Is Transforming Local Newsrooms [Sponsored]
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3:30 pm
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[MIDWAY] Why It’s Critical for Your Business and Editorial Sides to Collaborate — and How to Do It Ethically and Effectively
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[RSVP] Table Stakes: Follow-Up Workshop for Getting into the Game of Local News
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[FEATURED] A Seat at the Table
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How Facebook is Going for Local News
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Building Your Freelancer Brand: Pitch Editors, Tell Stories, Get Paid
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Augmented Reality is Your Next Immersive Content Experiment
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Making the (Internal) Case for New Products and Experiments
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The State of Design and Tech in Texas
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Reddit: Bringing the Front Page of the Internet Into Your Newsroom
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[RSVP] Workshop: Engaging Communities Across Differences with Dialogue Journalism
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Pivot to Union
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Existential Disruption 2.0: Enemies of the People
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The "Digital People": Creating Your Own Culture in a Large Media Organization [Sponsored]
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5:00 pm
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[MIDWAY] Rethinking Ads: Build Trust and Stop Pissing Off Your Readers
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Pitch Showcase: Let’s Hear Your Wildest Product Idea for Journalism
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Making the Case for Making the Time: Notes From the Journalism Mentorship Collaborative
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[RSVP] Speed Dating, Audience Engagement Style
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Breaking Records and Answering Questions: Nordic Local Election Coverage
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Machine Learning and You: Boost Audience Engagement, Change Readers’ Habits
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The Role and Value of Design in the Tech Startup Ecosystem
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The City As The City Desk
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(Re)writing Broadcast Scripts for Web
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Drones: Innovative Storytelling Tools
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Women Founders Meetup
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Fireside Chat with The Atlantic [Sponsored]
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Day 3 - Saturday, September 15
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9:30 am
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ONA Local Office Hours: How can I start an ONA Local group?
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Building Sources and Trust in Hard-to-Reach Communities
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[BLANK] is the Future of Journalism
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The Fear of AI: When Humans and Robots Just Don't Get Along
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Setting the Record Straight by Going Wayback
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Building Better Tools to Understand Voters and Their Choices
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Journalism’s Poverty Problem
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Blockchain to Power Journalism
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Tips for Sharing When You Get Home
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Informal Focus Group: How Can We Improve Our Conference?
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Lightning Talks
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[Unconference] WANTED: Journalists Ready to Actively Earn Audience Trust
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[Unconference] How to Fight Back When Facebook and Google Beat You on Your Home Turf
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[Unconference] Keeping Up With Today's Fast-paced Storytelling
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[Unconference] SEO for News: Fundamentals and the Future
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Fake News and the Fourth Estate: How History Will Rate this Media Moment [Sponsored]