What are the top critical issues facing digital journalists? We’ll crowd-source your thoughts and challenge leaders in our industry – and candidates for the 2013 Online News Association Board of Directors – to share their reactions in three minutes or less, followed by your Q &A.
Moderated by Meredith Artley, Vice President and Managing Editor, CNN Digital. Live tweets curated by Steve Buttry, Director of Community Engagement & Social Media, Digital First Media.
Disclaimer: we had no one from the blogging team slated to cover this event. I tried to pick a representative tweet for each candidate. You can see the entire Twitter stream here: https://twitter.com/i/#!/search/realtime/%23ONAdecision
Looking for info on how to vote? @ona members, you’ll have a link and password in your email. #ONA12 #ONAdecision
— ONA12 (@ONAConf) September 22, 2012
@aereditha you can mention the #ONAdecision voting link is journalists.org/vote
— Jeremiah Patterson (@jeremiahnpatter) September 22, 2012
“I want to give back…I want to continue doing that.” -@benetwilson #ONADecision
— Marissa Evans (@marissaaevans) September 22, 2012
.@nytjim: If I could help ONA be an advocate for innovation not just for its own sake but for smart storytelling. #ONAdecision
— Steve Buttry (@stevebuttry) September 22, 2012
.@mwadsworth: Trying to move journos forward to world that is less about platform & more about doing great journalism. #ONAdecision
— Steve Buttry (@stevebuttry) September 22, 2012
“The #1 issue is to maintain our ethics. We have a lot of pressure to get eyeballs to our website.” @tloebig #ONA12 #ONAdecision
— Krystina Martinez (@krystina0610) September 22, 2012
“Our true strength is in the people…getting more people that can add value to the organization.” -@greglinch #ONA12 #ONADecision
— Marissa Evans (@marissaaevans) September 22, 2012
“ONA can become the Lynda.com of the journalism world.” @koci #ONA12 #ONAdecision
— Krystina Martinez (@krystina0610) September 22, 2012
.@mjenkins wants to help ONA bring journos from Midwest, South & rural areas into ONA & put the spotlight on their work. #ONAdecision
— Steve Buttry (@stevebuttry) September 22, 2012
.@kegill wants universities to teach journalism to incoming freshmen in all disciplines, teaching literacy & practice. #ONAdecision
— Steve Buttry (@stevebuttry) September 22, 2012
“I spend time talking to people with unique probelms n this industry.” – Kate Gardiner on why she’s running. #ONA12 #ONADecision
— Marissa Evans (@marissaaevans) September 22, 2012
Greatest challenge @hayesferguson sees: Arming journos w/ the tools they need. Need greater awareness of social media. #ONAdecision
— Steve Buttry (@stevebuttry) September 22, 2012
Journalism education facing lots of challenges, but “magical” things happening, too, says @aeisman.#ONAdecision
— Steve Buttry (@stevebuttry) September 22, 2012
.@webjournalist running for re-election to board. Also working on learncode: “We can stumble through learning code together.” #ONAdecision
— Steve Buttry (@stevebuttry) September 22, 2012
“There are more issues that are relevant for us such as SOPA and legislation around distribution of media.” -Joshua Hatch #ONADecision
— Marissa Evans (@marissaaevans) September 22, 2012
OK, I’m not going to cite all the other journo-group acronyms @jbrannon just named, but she’s most passionate about ONA. #ONAdecision
— Steve Buttry (@stevebuttry) September 22, 2012
See the entire hash stream (PDF, not data – sorry!)
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9050702/twitter-search-onadecision.pdf