Tag: Online News Association
Make a strategic investment in AI for the future
Key strategies include establishing universal ethical standards, fostering inclusivity, prioritizing transparency, and encouraging collaboration to unlock AI’s potential while preserving journalistic values.
Recentering and refocusing to make a founding newsroom sustainable
My plan for Four Points Media and a balanced future.
How investing in work culture will protect journalism’s most valuable resource: people
News breaks, but it doesn’t have to break our journalists. Our industry is not sustainable if we don’t take care of one of our most valuable resources: our people.
AI takes ONA23 by storm
ONA 23, the Online News Association’s annual conference held last week in Philadelphia, demonstrated just how quickly artificial intelligence and machine learning have become a dominant focus in the industry, even as news organizations largely remain cautious about integrating Large Language Models like ChatGPT into workflows.
How leaders know when they are ready to go
Time is needed for a period of healthy introspection and discernment.
ONA22: Metrics and mission don’t have to stay separate
At ONA22, yesterday’s Tech Trends talk tying the future of journalism to AI and the metaverse gave way to a discussion today about using AI and data-driven decision-making to connect more closely with audiences.
15th annual Tech Trends talk at ONA22 challenges journalists to embrace metaverse
LOS ANGELES (Sept. 23, 2022) — At the 15th annual Tech Trends session at ONA22, Anders Grimstad of the Schibsted Futures Lab in Norway laid out the case for a future journalism industry defined by artificial intelligence and synthetic media. Grimstad covered a number of innovations in AI-assisted writing and content generation that he expects … Continued
RJI opens ONA22 with hands-on workshop exploring source diversity in journalism
The session also introduced a new tool, co-developed with Chalkbeat, that helps newsrooms audit their source lists to identify overrepresented and underrepresented voices.
Addressing the latest wave of coronavirus misinformation
First Draft created a special section on COVID-19 in its Basic Toolkit for verification. ONA quickly published a COVID-19 Misinformation Playbook and SPJ’s Journalist’s Toolbox maintains its own page of resources for fact-checking coronavirus information. Using these guides and a few select tools can help journalists verify facts and fight misinformation.
Here’s everything we learned about source diversity auditing
Two years ago, Chalkbeat joined a growing list of newsrooms attempting to track the diversity of our sources so we could better understand whose perspectives we’re elevating in our journalism.