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Unconference Presenters Announced

The votes have been counted and the sessions are set! Your ONA17 Unconference sessions are:

Engaging your audience with audience engagement: Beyond the buzzword with The Wall Street Journal’s Greg Emerson Washington 1 | 10:00 AM | Saturday 7 October

Who cares what people will read? What will they pay for? with the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Ken Sands Washington 2 | 10:00 AM | Saturday 7 October

SEO meets journalism: Google News terms, fundamentals you need to know with Trisolute News Dashboard’s Tobias Fellner-Jost and Chelsey Heath Maryland C | 4:00 PM | Saturday 7 October

Investigating corruption and organized crime with open data with Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism’s Giannina Segnini Washington 5 | 4:00 PM | Saturday 7 October

Pivoting to Video - Why and how? with Reynolds Journalism Institute’s Kat Duncan Washington 1 | 4:00 PM | Saturday 7 October

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Voting is now live!

Pick your favorite sessions here.

We’ll announce the winners tonight!

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Pitch: How questions saved my life and publishing industry in Europe

How do you make people listen to you and stay alert in a conversation? By asking the right questions. What comes naturally in  a human conversation has been neglected in publishing for too long. A bunch of European publishers just managed to change that. Anyone who cares about their community can do the same.

Pia Frey: I'm 28, coming from Berlin, Germany. My life has been evolving around questions: first as a philosophy student, then as a journalist, as a publisher of best-selling books that consist of nothing but questions and as founder of a startup that engages users – through questions. 

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Beat Reporting Best Practices

Many of us in the journalism community primarily identify through strictly defined beats, a traditional system for organizing reporters that has been majorly shook by changes in objectivity standards, community involvement and other expectations adapted because of new web-informed norms. Among new and adapting beat reporters, I want to lead a conversation on best practices for beat reporters, specifically those that include a geographic niche. We'll address issues like being a part of a community you must challenge, developing and managing sources, delivering investigative projects within small groups, managing confidential sources and receiving criticism and other community engagement. This will be full of specific examples with tactics and tips.

Christopher Wink is the cofounder and Editorial Director of 25-person Technically Media, which publishes local tech news and events network Technical.ly and, as of fall 2015, social impact site Generocity.org, including a 10-person editorial team. In that capacity, the ONA Local Philadelphia chapter leader is an organizer of Philly Tech Week, Baltimore Innovation Week and Barcamp News Innovation, among other events that bring smart people together.

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This year’s sessions

Thank you all for voting on the 2015 unconference sessions! The lineup is:

10 a.m. in Malibu -- Staci Baird: Snapchat. WTF are we supposed to do with this?

10 a.m. in Palisades -- Aparna Mukherjee, Burt Herman, Alicia Stewart: Starting It Up: Inside + Outside Your Newsroom

11:30 a.m. in Palisades -- Bill Adair and David Caswell: Structured Journalism: Can news be as modular as Lego?

3:30 p.m. in Palisades -- Andrea Iannuzzi: La "Cronaca Italiana" Instagram project: How mainstream media handed out their social account to citizens

3:30 p.m. in Encino -- Niki Doyle: "SWEET. The boss let me dedicate an employee to analytics … now what?"

3:30 p.m. in Constellation Ballroom II -- Maureen Hoch: How many newsletters do you need?

Check back on this Tumblr site for notes on the sessions!