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  • Data reveal differences in return to in-person schooling
    • June 26, 2021
  • How three news start-ups approached innovation in 2020
    • June 22, 2021
  • Sports journalists, from left, Matt Musil of KHOW TV, Emily Giangreco of KVUE TV, and John Affleck, the Knight Chair for Sports Journalism at Penn State University.
    Virtual group interviews are changing sports coverage
    • June 22, 2021
  • In their memory: Pandemic offers opportunities to transform digital obits
    • June 21, 2021
  • COVID-19 vaccine incentives: do they work?
    • June 21, 2021
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When to Unpublish: Everyone is entitled to a fresh start

  • Gabriel Pietrorazio
  • June 25, 2021
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How One Facebook Meme Group Sparks Youth Political Engagement

  • Cat Wang
  • June 27, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic may have reduced opportunities for in-person social connection, but it also fostered new platforms for engagement online, particularly for young students.  One such…
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‘It’s always a challenge’: How the 2021 ONA virtual conference came together

  • Jade Campos
  • June 27, 2021
Each year, directors begin to plan for the next Online News Association conference practically the second that the prior one ends. This includes scheduling sessions, inviting speakers, pulling…
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Hear me out, start a podcast

  • Alaysja Clark
  • June 25, 2021
Podcast enthusiasts were brewing with excitement in the chat room before the best practices session “So, You want to Start a Short-Form podcast?” even began during the ONA21…
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How bad is too bad?: Trauma-centered news stories and their impact on audience engagement

  • Tamia Fowlkes
  • June 25, 2021
After a year of social and political unrest, a global pandemic and little time away from our digital devices, news consumers and newsrooms are seeking ways to consume and produce more…
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Building relationships with your sources — and not just when it benefits the story

  • Jade Campos
  • June 25, 2021
Some journalists may feel the need to disconnect from their communities to maintain objectivity. In the same vein, some reporters are under the notion that they don’t need their communities to…
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The panel, from top left, Paul Cheung, Director / Journalism and Technology Innovation, Knight Foundation, Nicole Dungca, investigative reporter, The Washington Post and Sara Lomax-Reese, President/CEO, WURD Radio; Co-Founder, URL Media, WURD Radio
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‘We aren’t that woke’: Journalists on addressing racial blind spots

  • Skylar Williams
  • June 24, 2021
Over the last 18 months, the twin crises of the COVID-19 pandemic and systemic racism have brought racial blind spots to the forefront of reporting across America. There have been many…
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Data visualizations let data speak, but the average U.S. audience may not understand

  • Maaisha Osman
  • June 24, 2021
While eye-catching data viz pieces like the Financial Times “Coronavirus tracker” or New York Times “The Pandemic Has Split in Two,” are accurate and effective for a numerically literate…
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Text messaging emerges as audience engagement strategy

  • Michelle Ailport
  • June 23, 2021
Your cellphone dings.  That could be your dentist reminding you about your appointment next week. Maybe your DoorDash delivery guy dropped your burrito off on your doorstep. Perhaps Old Navy…
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Local news start-ups launching in a ‘springboard moment’

  • Allison Hageman
  • June 23, 2021
In the spring of 2020, just in time for the pandemic, the Longmont Leader launched in Northern Colorado to serve a growing city with shrinking news coverage. The Longmont…
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screenshot of the ONA21 Midway user interface
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Three ways to make the most out of ONA21’s virtual conference

  • Jade Campos
  • June 22, 2021
The Online News Association kicked off its second distanced conference amid the COVID-19 pandemic. While things look a little different from the historic in-person events, here’s a few ways to…
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About the Newsroom

For over a decade, the Student Newsroom has helped undergraduate and graduate students thrive in an immersive digital media environment by helping them develop digital tools before and during the annual ONA conference. For ONA21, we’ve gone remote.

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COVID-19 & THE INDUSTRY
  • COVID: Industry Issues

Data reveal differences in return to in-person schooling

  • Cat Wang
  • June 26, 2021
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  • COVID: Industry Issues

How three news start-ups approached innovation in 2020

  • Allison Hageman
  • June 22, 2021
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Sports journalists, from left, Matt Musil of KHOW TV, Emily Giangreco of KVUE TV, and John Affleck, the Knight Chair for Sports Journalism at Penn State University.
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  • COVID: Industry Issues

Virtual group interviews are changing sports coverage

  • Skylar Williams
  • June 22, 2021
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  • COVID: Industry Issues

In their memory: Pandemic offers opportunities to transform digital obits

  • Gabriel Pietrorazio
  • June 21, 2021
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  • COVID: Industry Issues

COVID-19 vaccine incentives: do they work?

  • Alaysja Clark
  • June 21, 2021
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