ONA Weekly #408: Empowering Civic Engagement

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Replay: Empowering civic engagement

Local media outlets have the power not only to inform communities, but also to move people to take action on the issues they learn about in the news. ONA organized a session at the International Journalism Festival that highlighted perspectives from Canada, Greece, Italy and the United States on engaging news audiences from consumption to action.

Watch now: How local news can empower civic engagement and the fight against misinformation
Featured speakers: Marianna Bruschi, journalist at GEDI Gruppo Editoriale and ONA Italia member; Candice Fortman, Executive Editor of Outlier Media; Anita Li, Founder and CEO of The Green Line and ONA board member; Tassos Morfis, Founder of Project Epsilon, and Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of AthensLive

Get ready for the 2022 OJAs

The call for submissions for this year’s Online Journalism Awards will open Thursday, May 5. The 2022 OJAs are open to work published between June 1, 2021, and May 31, 2022. We will announce new categories next week. Review the rules and eligibility and explore for the 2021 winners and finalists for inspiration as you start gathering notes about your favorite projects.

Career opportunities

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

Director of Technology, Tiny News Collective
Interim Part-Time Broadcast News Writer/Producer, Democracy Now Productions
Global Team Manager (Remote), Global Investigative Journalism Network
Curator, Apple News
Vice President, Product Strategy, American Press Institute
Communications Coordinator, Sandbox Films, Staff Writer/Editor, Quanta Magazine and Marketing Associate, Simons Foundation
Social Media Manager, Appalachian State University
Engagement Director, Newsletter Manager and Bilingual Graphic Designer, Environmental Health Sciences
Director of Technology and Events and Membership Manager, Online News Association Join our team!

On our radar

How can publishers respond to the power of platforms?, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and Sarah Anne Ganter for Nieman Lab
Five ways to stay online during a government internet shutdown, Vittoria Elliott for Rest of the World
Navigating libraries and archives for investigations, Ricardo Ginés for Tactical Tech’s Exposing the Invisible Kit
What news founders wish they’d known about launching a media business (Part 1), News Guest podcast with Candice Fortman
Artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order, Karen Hao for MIT Technology Review

Directory spotlight

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Support ONA

There are many ways to help sustain ONA’s mission to inspire and support innovation in digital journalism.

Join as an ONA member
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Explore options to reach the ONA community about your event, product, job opening or other opportunity
Invest in ONA programs: Contact Chief Strategic Partnerships Officer Jessica Strelitz, jessica@journalists.org, to learn about philanthropic and corporate support.