ONA Weekly #426: Get Ready To Vote!

Get ready to vote for the ONA Board

Voting for the 2023-24 ONA Board of Directors opens on Sept. 12. All active ONA members as of Thursday, Sept. 8, are eligible to cast a ballot. Join ONA or confirm your membership status and get ready to vote!

Get to know the candidates running for six open seats on the board: 

New Candidates

• Dan Gilgoff, Executive Editor, Digital & Content, AARP
• Robin Kwong, New Formats Editor, The Wall Street Journal
• Kristen Reed, Content Director, TEGNA
• Margaret Schneider, Head of Training & Documentation, Newspack, Automattic
• Allison Shirk, Digital and Engagement Editor, Chattanooga Times Free Press

• Ashley Alvarado, Vice President, Community Engagement + Strategic Initiatives, Southern California Public Radio (KPCC/LAist)
• Rubina Madan Fillion, Director of Strategy, Opinion, The New York Times
• Andrew Fitzgerald, SVP, Streaming Video Services, Hearst Television
• Rodney Gibbs, Senior Director, Strategy & Innovation, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• Imaeyen Ibanga, Presenter/Senior Producer, AJ+
• Niketa Patel, Senior Director, Partnerships & Platforms, The 19th
• Anita Zielina, Director Strategic Initiatives, Newmark J-School at CUNY

This year’s finalists in the Online Journalism Awards (#OJA22) Excellence in Social Justice Reporting category covered topics from climate change and pandemic relief to pollution and the criminal justice system. The award honors exceptional works of digital journalism that highlight and report on systemic inequities encountered by marginalized and underrepresented communities.

Single story finalists:

• Inaccessible cities, AJ Contrast and Al Jazeera Digital
• Postcard from Thermal: Surviving the climate gap in eastern Coachella Valley, ProPublica
• Rising up in the heartland: Latino workers fight for pandemic relief, Univision
• This Rap Song Helped Sentence a 17-Year-Old to Prison, The New York Times and Type Investigations

Portfolio finalists:

• Denied, The Markup
• Ghosts of polluters past, Grist and Voice of OC
• Prison dispatches from incarcerated writers, The Appeal
• The stench of death: On Canada’s Highway of Tears, Al Jazeera Digital 

Winners will be announced during the Online News Association’s annual conference (Sept. 21–24 in Los Angeles).

On the calendar

• Sept. 8: Last Day to Verify Voting Eligibility for ONA Board Elections
• Sept. 12: Board Voting Opens for ONA Members 
• Sept. 21–24: 2022 Online News Association Conference
• Sept. 21: Welcome to LA: The Magic of Media
• Sept. 24: 2022 Online Journalism Awards Ceremony

Career opportunities

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

• Assistant Editor, Coda Story
• Twin Cities Beat Reporter, MinnPost
• Digital Director and Social Media Manager, AAAS
• Senior Digital Producer and Digital Producer, National Gallery of Art
• State Government Reporter, The Seattle Times
• Video Producer, Quanta Magazine, Simons Foundation
• Staff Writer, Dallas Observer
• Assistant/Associate Professor of Journalism Studies, University of Missouri-Columbia

On our radar

• Newsrooms inside refugee camps: Reporting by migrants, for migrants, Stefania D’Ignoti for Nieman Reports
• Farewell typos! Twitter unveils the edit button. Finally. Kate Conger for The New York Times
• 8 Investigative journalists share their favorite reporting tools, Rowan Philp for Global Investigative Journalism Network
• Prebunking is effective at fighting misinfo, study finds, Seth Smalley for Poynter
• Exclusive: Yahoo buys The Factual to add news credibility ratings, Sara Fischer for Axios

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