How One Facebook Meme Group Sparks Youth Political Engagement
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
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
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
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
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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‘We aren’t that woke’: Journalists on addressing racial blind spots
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
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
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’
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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Three ways to make the most out of ONA21’s virtual conference
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.
COVID-19 & THE INDUSTRY
The ONA21 Student Newsroom and Innovation Lab is generously sponsored by Microsoft, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and News Break.
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