There are a variety of ways to get involved with ONA’s annual conference, detailed below. Many include complimentary registration.
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Sponsor the conference
If your organization is looking to connect with innovators in digital media, we provide a wide variety of compelling sponsorship opportunities, or can craft something to your needs. Reach out to Head of Strategic Partnerships Hanaa Rifaey: hanaa@journalists.org.
Upcoming opportunities
Opportunities that come with a complimentary badge to attend ONA24:
This one-year fellowship provides support and guidance to early-career journalists on a digital journalism project, as well as their own professional development. Fellows receive a complimentary pass to ONA24, plus a three-year ONA membership, among other benefits.
Six students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) will receive hands-on experience during ONA24 as part of the HBCU Digital Media Fellowship. The students will create a digital project during the fellowship, as well as participate in mentorship focused on emerging technologies, tools and approaches to reporting and distributing news online.
The application window will be open Thursday, May 2 through Thursday, May 30.
Check back for more details or subscribe to ONA Weekly to learn when this opportunity becomes available.
ONA relies on its dedicated volunteers to help make ONA24 a warm and welcoming environment.
We’re recruiting event volunteers to work eight-hour shifts helping support pre-conference preparations, registration, sessions, special events and other important aspects of ONA24.
The application window will be open from Thursday, May 2 through Thursday, May 30.
Other opportunities for those attending ONA24:
Explore career opportunities
The ONA24 Resume Drop is open to any digital news professional looking to discuss jobs, internships, academic programs and fellowships for career development. This resource will only be shared with official ONA24 recruiters and program representatives, who will reach out in the weeks leading up to the conference.
Even if you cannot make the conference, you can still include your resume and connect with recruiters from dozens of organizations from local news multinationals.
The resume drop will be Summer 2024. Check back for more details.
Opportunities to support ONA24 that do not come with a complimentary badge:
The ONA Midway is the destination for our community to learn about emerging and established tools and products through direct interaction with companies and organizations – including start-ups – and complemented by curated programming. ONA conference attendees come to the Midway for opportunities to learn about and try new products, to dive deeper into the tools they already use and bring back fresh ideas to amplify their news work.
ONA24 will feature several Midway learning sessions, highlighting topics of importance to the ONA community and featuring experts offering perspectives from inside and outside of the global newsroom.
The Midway programming application will be available soon. Check back for more details.
The Start-Up Alley supports emerging companies – established in the last 24 months – looking to disrupt the media and tech industries with fresh ideas.
The Start-Up Alley application window will open soon. Check back for more details.
The 2024 Online Journalism Awards honor excellence in digital journalism around the world. Finalists and winners represent a wide range of nonprofit, public, academic, major media, independent and emerging technology organizations. ONA24 will close with the OJA Luncheon on Friday, Sep. 20 from 1–3p.
The 2024 Online Journalism Awards open on Thursday, April 4. Submissions close on Thursday, May 9 at 11:59 p.m. EDT (3:59 a.m. UTC).
Closed opportunities
Most of the programming for the annual conference comes together through our Suggestion Box, our public call for session and speaker ideas. Our volunteer Program Team reviews all submissions. We expect to share the conference schedule on a rolling basis from June – July. Selected speakers receive a complimentary badge to ONA24.
Submissions for conference programming through the Suggestion Box are now closed. The submission period was March 21 through April 12, 2024.