It’s that time of the year! The Online News Association Conference kicks off in Los Angeles later this week. If you are a journalism educator attending ONA15 this week, here are my picks of panels not to miss that will allow you to stay ahead of the curve on the latest and greatest in online journalism:
Thursday, Sept. 24
9:30-10:30 a.m.
Opening Keynote with Richard Gingras and Emily Bell
11 a.m.–12 p.m.
Building a Digital Culture in J Schools
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Using Data, New Tools and Social Media to Hack the Upcoming Elections – Knight Foundation
1:30-2:30 p.m.
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Collaborate + Innovate: Lessons from the Challenge Fund
4:30-5:30 p.m.
Moving the Needle: What’s Your Impact?
Friday, Sept. 25
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Table talks: Teaching and Training
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Community Engagement Models for More Inclusive Journalism
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Build Bots to Boost Your Reporting
3:30-4:30 p.m.
What Journalists Can Learn from Game Designers
Saturday, Sept. 26
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Where Science Meets Storytelling: Reporting from the Unsurfaced Web
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Radio Reimagined: Distributing Audio In the Digital Age
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Preparing for the Next Jobs in Journalism
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Fail Fest 2015: I Failed, It Sucked, But Here’s How I Bounced Back
4:30-5:30 p.m.
The 24-7 Blended Newsroom: The Vision, and the Reality
See the full schedule for details on these panels and more!
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Digital Amy 