ONA Weekly #395: Congratulations To New ONA Board Officers

Screenshot with faces of ONA leadership at the January 2022 virtual meeting.

Congratulations to new ONA Board officers

ONA board members elected a new group of officers during the Jan. 20–21 virtual meeting. Please join us in congratulating these leaders: David Smydra, President; Charo Henríquez, Vice President; Rodney Gibbs, Treasurer; and Anita Li, Secretary. In addition, Shazna Nessa will serve a one-year term as Immediate Past President and is the first to hold this role as an official board seat. Learn more about ONA’s board leadership.

“With imperfect information, we make imperfect decisions.”

We are pleased to join 20+ journalism organizations in supporting National News Literacy Week in the United States, presented Jan. 24–28 by the News Literacy Project and The E.W. Scripps Company. News literacy is an urgent and essential life skill. Credible, standards-based news outlets play an important role in helping the public recognize what news and information to trust. Read the supporting letter and follow updates on social media via #NewsLiteracyWeek.

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Replay: Navigating multigenerational newsrooms

With five generations in the workplace, how do their different perspectives and lived experiences shape newsroom culture and opportunities? Ashley Alvarado moderated a lively discussion at ONA21 with Imaeyen Ibanga, Beena Raghavendran and George Stanley on the impact of this once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon. Watch now: One Size Does NOT Fit All.

On the calendar

Feb. 3: ONA San Francisco: Telling the Impactful Story of Jessica: A Conversation with the San Francisco Chronicle’s Heather Knight and Gabrielle Lurie (virtual)

Career opportunities

ONA’s Career Center is an excellent resource for jobs, fellowships and internships in digital journalism. Recent postings include:

Fellowship: Widening the Pipeline of Diverse Journalists, National Press Foundation
Senior Manager, Digital Distribution and Manager, Digital Distribution, Gannett
Life Sciences General Assignment Writer, Science News, Society for Science
Health Editor, CalMatters
Assistant Metro Editor, Business Editor and Education Lab Reporter, The Seattle Times
SEO Editor, American City Business Journals
Digital News and Engagement Editor/Producer, WFAE (Charlotte, NC)
Chief Operating Officer, The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

On our radar

‘China will be China’: Why journalists are taking burner phones to the Beijing Olympics, Paul Farhi for The Washington Post
The media and the ballot box: Confronting 21st century voter suppression, Celeste Katz Marston for Nieman Reports
The future of the BBC, The Real Story with Ritula Shah
Calculate your skills — and value — before joining the Great Resignation, Lam Thuy Vo for Poynter
The rise of science-based investigative journalism, James Fahn for GIJN

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