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OJA winners a memorable group
Online Journalism Award winners this year will get a new kind of immortality. They will be enshrined in a new exhibit at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Pictured at left are Altyn Magauina and a jubilant Yedige Magauin, as they accept the award for General Excellence Non-English, small site, for Radio Azattyq. View a photo gallery with the story.
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ONA09 Contacts
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Co-Chairs Katharine Fong, San Jose Mercury News Liz Lufkin, Yahoo! |
Sponsors & Exhibitors Jane McDonnell, Executive Director |
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Programming/Schedule Josh Hatch, USA Today Laura Cochran, Gannett Co. |
Student Newsroom Sara Kelly, National University |
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Career Summit & Job Fair Joe Grimm, Michigan State University Amy Eisman, American University |
Pre-Conference Workshops Kim Moy, Yahoo! Matthew Greenberg, Gannett |
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Multimedia Learning Lab Cory Haik, seattletimes.com |
ONA09 Highlights
Liz Lufkin’s Career: What’s Patty Hearst Got to Do With It? The co-chair of the 2009 ONA Conference reveals the moment she knew she wanted to become a journalist.
Global perspectives By Isabel Esterman
ONA09 workshops have focused almost exclusively on North American issues and trends. But one session, “The State of Global Innovation,” brought an international perspective.
Five news startups in 60 minutes By Noah Buhayar and Nicole Fallek
In the spirit of bringing the startup culture into the news world, five contestants present their fresh and unique concepts in a real-life pitch-and-crit session.
Good enough: Producing Web videos with iMovie and a Flip By Isabel Esterman
HD cameras, high-fidelity microphones and professional editing software can produce beautiful, polished videos. But what if you need to get something up on the Web fast?
Confession sessions: ONA journalists answer today’s tough questions — Day 1 When will you hold the last newspaper in your hands? What gives us hope in this challenging time for our industry? And what’s the past tense of “tweet”? We have no idea. Journalism students Amanda Dyer and Natalie Yemenidjian ask the talented journalists who are brave enough to enter their confession sessions.
ONA09 word on the street Melissa Hale and Austin Fast hit the streets of San Francisco to find out how the locals are consuming the news.
Keynotes
Women in online mediaBy Abby Selden
ONA09 conferees discuss the role of women in online media in response to the Saturday morning keynote speech by Blogher.com co-founder and CEO Lisa Stone.
By Suzanne Yada
A behind-the-scenes interview with Leo Laporte, host of the This Week in Tech podcast, just before his keynote speech at the ONA conference.
General News
Share your thoughts on ONA09, win an iPod nanoIf you attended ONA09, you can win an iPod nano by filling out our conference survey.
Entrepreneurs at ONA09By Jessica Estepa
The buzz word at ONA09 was entrepreneurship. Twitter CEO Evan Williams encouraged it. Tech Guy Leo Laporte said he believed it was the future. Several sessions discussed how to transition from the “journalist” role to the “entrepreneur” role.
The Student Newsroom sought out entrepreneurs at the conference, ranging from a Knight News Challenge winner [...]
Conference Track: Front End
The newsroom in your pocketBy Lauren Gentile and Abby Selden
This multimedia piece created with VuVox includes video excerpts with David LaFontaine, who presented “Creating Content with Your Phone.”
By Isabel Esterman
ONA09 workshops have focused almost exclusively on North American issues and trends. But one session, “The State of Global Innovation,” brought an international perspective.
Conference Track: Back End
SEO and what we knowBy Melissa Hale
A hot topic buzzing between many ONA attendees was Search Engine Optimization, a way for Web sites to improve the relevance and placement of their content on search engines.
By Noah Buhayar and Nicole Fallek
In the spirit of bringing the startup culture into the news world, five contestants present their fresh and unique concepts in a real-life pitch-and-crit session.
Conference Track: Multimedia
Good enough: Producing Web videos with iMovie and a FlipBy Isabel Esterman
HD cameras, high-fidelity microphones and professional editing software can produce beautiful, polished videos. But what if you need to get something up on the Web fast?
10th Anniversary Celebration
ONA celebrates 10th anniversaryBy Devin Banerjee
ONA members—whose principal livelihoods include gathering, producing and studying news for digital presentation—are celebrating their association’s 10th anniversary at the annual Online News Association Conference Oct. 1-3 in San Francisco.
