Culture and Career
Changing Your Stylebook To Create a More Empathetic Newsroom
- Sharif Durhams
- Kristen Hare
- Stephanie Uribe
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Moderated by Megan Finnerty
Topics like sexual violence, LGBT issues and mental health are especially challenging for reporters and editors, given our natural concern for language and approach. We’ll help...
Fail Fest 2015: I Failed, It Sucked, But Here’s How I Bounced Back
- David Cohn
- Kim Fox
- Mariana Santos
The mantra from Silicon Valley is that failure is OK, as long as you fail rapidly and learn something from it. We’ll have a series of rapid-fire presentations from our brave,...
Improving Digital News Internships
- Leo Postovoit
- Amy Rolph
- Mike Wong
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Moderated by Linda Shockley
Today’s journalism students are ready for almost any task, armed with an arsenal of news tools and techniques. All they need is meaningful newsroom experience. Are you using...
Negotiation, Compensation and You: A Workshop From the ONA-Poynter Women’s Leadership Academy
- Will Neville-Rehbehn
- Katie Hawkins-Gaar
Negotiations can be one of the most stressful parts of our jobs — in particular, the critical business of the compensation package. Our experienced workshop leaders will discuss...
Perfecting Your Internal Pitch
- Kari Cobham
- Sarah Day Owen
- Shareef Abul-Ela
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Moderated by Ian Hill
We’ve all had cool ideas for projects that probably would’ve been successful if we had just gotten them past our managers. In this how-to session, managers will talk about...
Pulling Off Your Big Project In a Small(er) Newsroom
- Evan Wyloge
- Anika Anand
Don’t let your great idea be canned before it even has a chance. Learn strategies to address phrases like “we don’t have the budget for that” or “I can’t let you take...
Tomorrowland: The Staff and Audience We Should Be Building Toward
- Justin Ellis
- Tasneem Raja
- Caitlin Thompson
Structuring your media company for the future will require not just aspiring to engage your desired audience … you’ll need to staff for that audience with intent. We’ll look...
We Belong Here: Pushing Back Against Online Harassment
- Soraya Chemaly
- Dr. Michelle Ferrier
- Amanda Hess
- Laurie Penny
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Moderated by Sarah Jeong
Journalists — and women in media in particular — face an intense level of online interaction with trolls and cyberbullies, as spotlighted over the past year in several...
Whose Idea Of The Future Is This?
- Teresa Jusino
- Sherryl Vint
- Ytasha L. Womack
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Moderated by Matt Thompson
Rapid advances in tech and shifting population dynamics in the United States ensure we are destined for a future beyond current white-male-dominated media thinking. We’ve...