By Suzanne Yada
A behind-the-scenes interview with Leo Laporte, host of the This Week in Tech podcast, just before his keynote speech at the ONA conference.

By Armand Emamdjomeh

Blog. Some journalists say it’s their favorite four-letter word. Others can’t stand to hear it. The ONA student newsroom asked several journalists in the “blogging bar” at ONA09 “what do you blog about and why?”

By Kate Kilpatrick
True to his forecaster job title, Paul Saffo predicted that new media empires will arise in the next decade that will dwarf the Time Warners and Comcasts of today. They’ll do this, he says, “by enabling the many and the small.”

When will you hold the last newspaper in your hands? What gives us hope in this challenging time for our industry? And what’s the past tense of “tweet”? We have no idea. Journalism students Amanda Dyer and Natalie Yemenidjian ask the talented journalists who are brave enough to enter their confession sessions.

The Online News Association announced the voting results for the “Un-Conference” sessions at the 2009 annual conference in San Francisco, Calif. The sessions will focus around online networking and social media.

By Anna Bloom and Martin Ricard
Words drive users of the Web, say the Internet’s wordsmiths. Bury the words in dense paragraphs or between a maze of images and users will grow impatient and change course.

Melissa Hale and Austin Fast hit the streets of San Francisco to find out how the locals are consuming the news.

By Juana Summers
Amy Webb defines the leading edge of a field known for innovation. The digital media consultant, writer and adviser to numerous news organizations is engrossed in the intersection of journalism and technology.

By Devin Banerjee
ONA members—whose principal livelihoods include gathering, producing and studying news for digital presentation—are celebrating their association’s 10th anniversary at the annual Online News Association Conference Oct. 1-3 in San Francisco.

By Abby Selden As a member of the Student Newsroom at last year’s Online News Association Conference, I energetically rushed around the hallways of the conference hotel, interviewing attendees on their favorite new technology trends and writing on the benefits of appealing to niche audiences. I was champing at the bit to enter the world […]