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| ONA Conference | |
|---|---|
| Name | ONA Conference |
| Formation | 1999 |
| Type | Professional organization conference |
| Headquarters | United States |
| Region served | International |
ONA Conference
ONA Conference is an annual gathering that brings together professionals from journalism, digital media, nonprofit organizations, technology companies, academic institutions, and civic groups for workshops, panels, and networking. The conference convenes representatives from institutions such as The New York Times, Washington Post, BBC News, Reuters, NPR, Associated Press, The Guardian and partners including Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon. Attendees have included leaders from Columbia University, Harvard University, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, MIT, University of Oxford and organizations such as ProPublica, The Marshall Project, Investigative Reporters and Editors, Reporters Without Borders and Committee to Protect Journalists.
The conference began in 1999 amid debates involving figures from Poynter Institute, Knight Foundation, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Nieman Foundation, and Tow Center for Digital Journalism over the future of news and online publishing. Early years featured panels with editors from Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, Detroit Free Press and technology strategists from Yahoo!, AOL, Mozilla Foundation, Adobe Systems and Intel Corporation. During the 2000s the conference intersected with initiatives by Open Society Foundations, MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York and policy discussions involving Federal Communications Commission, European Commission, UNESCO and Council of Europe. Speakers have included journalists linked to coverage of events like the Iraq War, the Hurricane Katrina response, the 2016 United States presidential election, the Arab Spring, and investigative projects tied to the Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers.
The conference is organized by a non-profit body connected to media organizations, foundations, and university centers; collaborating institutions have included Center for Public Integrity, Media Development Investment Fund, Reuters Foundation, International Center for Journalists, OpenNews and First Draft News. Governance structures draw on advisory boards with members from Reuters, Bloomberg L.P., VICE Media, BuzzFeed, The Atlantic, Financial Times and academic representatives from Columbia Journalism School, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and Shorenstein Center. Funders and sponsors have included Google News Initiative, Facebook Journalism Project, Knight Foundation, Craig Newmark Philanthropies and Democracy Fund, while corporate partners such as Adobe Systems, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Research and NVIDIA provide technical support. Legal and ethical oversight has involved consultation with groups like Electronic Frontier Foundation, Open Rights Group, Access Now and regulatory bodies such as Federal Trade Commission.
Each year’s program reflects contemporary crises and innovations, with editions drawing speakers from outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Politico, Axios, Slate, New Yorker, Time (magazine), Forbes, Wired (magazine), Mother Jones and HuffPost. Cities hosting the event have included New York City, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Toronto, London, Berlin and Sydney. Themed panels have examined topics addressed by experts who also participate in conferences like SXSW, Web Summit, TED Conference, Single Convention, World Economic Forum, International Journalism Festival and Global Investigative Journalism Conference. Notable sessions have featured investigations associated with BuzzFeed News and collaborations with research groups at Harvard Kennedy School, MIT Media Lab, Oxford Internet Institute and King's College London.
Programs at the conference have included fellowships, hackathons, mentorship tracks, data journalism workshops and training in collaboration with institutions such as Google News Lab, Mozilla Foundation, Code for America, DataKind, OpenAI and Y Combinator. Awards and recognitions presented at or connected to the conference have paralleled honors like the Pulitzer Prize, Peabody Awards, Emmy Awards, Polk Awards, European Press Prize and George Polk Awards, while also highlighting recipients from initiatives with IWMF Courage in Journalism Awards and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Journalism Awards. Technical competitions have drawn teams that previously participated in events hosted by Kaggle, Major League Hacking and Mozilla Festival.
Membership and participation include journalists, editors, technologists, designers, developers, newsroom managers, educators and students associated with organizations such as Associated Press', Agence France-Presse, Al Jazeera, CBS News, NBC News, ABC News, Bloomberg L.P., CNBC, Sky News, The Times (London), El País, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Asahi Shimbun, The Hindu, The Sydney Morning Herald and Globo. University partnerships engage centers like Berkeley Journalism School, Knight-Bagehot Fellowship, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Tow Center for Digital Journalism and Columbia Global Centers. Corporate attendees have included staff from Salesforce, Slack Technologies, Zendesk, WordPress.com and Squarespace.
The conference has influenced collaborations between newsrooms and technology firms, helping spawn projects aligned with work at ProPublica, The Marshall Project, Investigative Reporters and Editors and initiatives linked to Data Science for Social Good. Critics cite concerns similar to debates around Facebook partnerships, the role of funding from foundations such as Knight Foundation and Open Society Foundations, and tensions noted at events like World Economic Forum and controversies tied to Cambridge Analytica. Commentators from outlets like The Intercept, The Nation, Jacobin and Columbia Journalism Review have debated issues of corporate influence, editorial independence, diversity, representation, surveillance, and platform governance discussed at the conference. Defenders point to collaborative outputs involving Open Data Institute, Sunlight Foundation, The Center for Investigative Reporting and educational impacts for students from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Medill School of Journalism.
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