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Make FOIA Work: Participatory Design Field Guide

Can journalists employ Freedom of Information Act requests to meaningfully engage communities in dialogue about issues that matter to them? How might FOIA, data, and information...

ONA18

Building Better Tools to Understand Voters and Their Choices

  • David Scott
  • Ashley Alvarado
  • Peter Beshai
  • Julia Haslanger

By using emerging technologies in public opinion polling, social listening and personalized research as well as innovative audience engagement strategies, journalists can move...

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Building Sources and Trust in Hard-to-Reach Communities

  • Rachel Glickhouse
  • María Sánchez Díez
  • Julia B. Chan

Reporting on marginalized and hard-to-reach communities is particularly challenging, intensive work, but engaged reporting — across a variety of mediums — holds the key to...

ONA18

Closed Networks are Revolutionary for Oppressed People and Reporters Covering Them

  • Thalia Beaty
  • Kevin Nguyen
  • Layla Mashkoor
  • Moderated by Rachel Glickhouse

Where social media is banned or monitored, closed networks and encrypted messengers like Telegram and WhatsApp allow activists and the journalists who cover them an avenue for...

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Deep Dive into Data: Find It, Verify It, Visualize It

  • Moderated by Darla Cameron

There is so much data out there — but how do you find the good stuff? How do you know what types are quality vs. should be avoided? And once you have that data, what are...

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Expert Investigative Journalism Advice with John Carreyrou

  • John Carreyrou
  • Moderated by Shazna Nessa

In one of the biggest news stories of the year, Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou exposed fraud by the founder of Theranos, a startup promising rapid blood testing and...

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ICFJ Presents: Steal My Tool

  • Moderated by Oren Levine

Looking to “steal” someone else’s digital journalism tool? After a packed room at ONA17, the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) is bringing “Steal My Tool” back...

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J-School Supplemental: Statistics and Research Methods

  • Alex Curry
  • Emily Van Duyn

Regardless of where you went to school and when, we all have gaps in our formal education. In a fast-changing digital media world, those blind spots can be real disservice. This...

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Journalism’s Poverty Problem

  • Emily Goligoski
  • Sarah Alvarez
  • Jay Hamilton
  • Moderated by Heather Bryant

Income inequality is surging, journalists can’t afford to do their work and the industry is desperate for paying customers. Yet these three strands of poverty in journalism are...