ONA17 Event RSVP: ONA Local Leaders Summit

Join us to kick off your week at ONA17 with an ONA Local leaders meetup. You'll meet ONA Local group organizers from around the world to share ideas, develop group leadership skills and celebrate our community.

We'll cover topics you've told us are important to you as a leader of your Local community and give you time to work side by side with your peers. Expect to walk away with skills and templates to help you lead your local journalism community, as well as connections with lots of other people who care just as much about strengthening journalism in their hometowns as you do.

Lunch, snacks and coffee will be served.

Please register by Wednesday, September 27.

Schedule:

12:30-1 p.m.
Check In Opens
Grab lunch and find a seat!

1-1:15 p.m.
Welcome and Opening Remarks

1:15-2:15 p.m.
Discussion: How is local journalism leading the way on building trust with communities?
Ashley Woods, ONA Detroit/Detroit Free Press; Diya Chacko, ONA LA/Orange County Register; Ernie Ting, ONA SF/CivImpact Labs; and moderator Steve Myers, ONA New Orleans/The Lens
Local news organizations are, in many ways, leading the way on building trust with communities. How can we track, scale and support innovation in local journalism relationship building? This will be an interactive discussion, led by several ONA Local leaders, but we want to hear from you: how are you seeing this play out in your community? What's being tested, and what's working? We'll have a shared document to track ideas and follow up after the conversation.

2:15-2:30 p.m.
Break

2:30-3:30 p.m.
Lightning Talks from Local Leaders
We always get asked what other groups are doing to approach community building efforts. We'll have a round of lightning talks from the leaders of several different ONA Local communities during this time on what's working best and what they're learning.

3:30-3:45 p.m.
Break/Snack

3:45-4:45 p.m.
Discussion Session: Workshop a Challenge
For the last session of the day, we're going to give you lots of time to work with your peers. You'll get into groups of three, and each person will get 20 minutes to dive into a challenge in your role, newsroom or local journalism community. You'll get focused feedback and ideas from your partners. After 20 minutes, we'll switch to focus on the second person's challenge, and so on.

4:45-5 p.m.
Closing and Wrap up

Thanks to the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for its generous support of ONA Local programs, including the ONA Local Leaders Summit.

This reception is held in compliance with applicable House and Senate gift rules. The event is private and participation is by invitation only. Invitations are non-transferable.