ONA is committed to diversity and inclusion in both topics and speakers across session ideas, geography, gender, race, nationality and professional and ONA conference experience

Demographics

• Identity: Sex and gender, ethnicity and race, ability and disability
• Geographic: International, national, metro, regional
• Educational: Practitioners, educators, students
• Experience and career-stage
• New and returning speakers
• Newsroom size and type (e.g., print, broadcast, digital-first)

As compared to previous conferences

• Annually recurring sessions (eg, legal issues)
• “What’s Next” sessions continuing previous conversations (eg, misinformation)
• New sessions on emerging trends highlighting fresh faces (eg, machine learning)

Session Formats

• Best practices
• Case studies / Under-the-Hood
• Learn a skill
• Masterclass
• Panel discussions
• Research
• Solutions gathering
• Template building

Areas of Focus

• Emerging technology
• Audience development & metrics
• Leadership development
• Revenue & business models
• Innovative news storytelling

Target populations

• Editors, newsroom managers, senior leaders, and other journalists
• Journalists in underrepresented communities
• Early career journalism changemakers
• Journalism school instructors, faculty, administrators and student leaders
• Technologists