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2013
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Webb: Search will come to you
ONA attendees once again flocked to Webb Media Group CEO Amy Webb’s session, “10 Tech Trends For Journalists” on Friday. Her standing room only interactive talk included drones, a handheld 3D…
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ONA Opening Reception Sights
ONA13 attendees converged on one of Atlanta’s historic venues, The Tabernacle, on Thursday. Ruby Velle and the Soulphonics played as journalists from across the country networked and mingled. The Weather…
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Confessions of a Journalist: Epic fails and pitfalls
Think you have issues? Listen as three ONA attendees share their biggest mistakes and pitfalls. In order of appearance: Robert Hernandez of USC Annenberg, Will Van Wazer of the Washington…
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Journalist-as-a-brand: Good or bad?
Mike Allen. Nate Silver. Brian Stelter. David Carr. Anderson Cooper. They’re all big names in the media industry, partially thanks to their personal brands. Journalistic value and credibility were once…
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Personal essay: Girl kicks butt
With Steely Dan and Tommy Tutone playing in the background, we’d jog around the room and do push-ups and 15 jumping jacks to get us stretched and ready. Looking into…
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I am brand: Achieving success online
My name is Max Knoblauch and I don’t have a personal brand. This is a problem. In the digital age, having a “personal brand” online is about as necessary as…
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How to tell a story without writing a story
In many ways, the Internet has set journalists free. The medium allows journalists to break out of the tried and true written article format and tell stories in richer, more…
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Data journalism in the developing world
How do you teach data literacy? How do you convince your editors? How do you protect journalists from retaliation? How do you get data when there are no FOIA laws?…
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Voices from the crowd: Bringing user-generated audio into the newsroom
As media outlets constantly seek new ways to involve their audiences, getting readers and listeners to contribute crowdsourced audio into radio news can pose a worthwhile challenge, according to panelists…
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Start-up founders advocate entrepreneurship
Focus on your customers. That was just one takeaway from start-up founders Laura Lorek and Robert Niles’ ONA session “Just-the-Right-Size Enterprise AMA” Thursday. The Q&A was moderated by Tom Davidson…
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