Video from the ONA16 keynotes and more resources

September 29, 2016 / / No Comments
DENVER, CO - SEPTEMBER 16: Online News Association's annual conference at the Hyatt Regency Denver on September 16, 2016, in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by Anya Semenoff/Online News Association

DENVER, CO – SEPTEMBER 16: Online News Association’s annual conference at the Hyatt Regency Denver on September 16, 2016, in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by Anya Semenoff/Online News Association

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the 2016 Online News Association Conference in Denver — in person, on social or via our live streams and blogs. We’ve been hearing wonderful feedback about the conference and are hard at work getting our final set of resources to you.
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ONA Challenge Fund to ‘hack’ journalism education gets new $985,000 boost

September 17, 2016 / / No Comments

challenge-fund-featured-image-logos-2DENVER — Sept. 15, 2016 — To help journalism educators better prepare students to meet 21st century information needs, five major foundations today announced nearly $1 million in support to the Challenge Fund for Innovation in Journalism Education. The micro-grant contest, which encourages universities to create teams to experiment with new ways of providing news and information, is run by the Online News Association (ONA), the world’s largest membership group of digital journalists.

Announced today at ONA’s 2016 conference, the funding will provide an additional two years of support for the challenge, which was launched in 2013 by a funder collaborative that includes the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; the Democracy Fund; Excellence and Ethics in Journalism Foundation; the Robert R. McCormick Foundation and the Rita Allen Foundation. All five foundations have renewed their support for this round of funding, totaling $985,000.
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