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located in

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, United States. It is the world's largest association of digital journalists, with more than 2,000 members. The majority of ONA members are professional online journalists. The association defines "professional members" as those "whose principal livelihood involves gathering or producing news for digital presentation." These include news writers, producers, programmers, bloggers, designers, editors, photographers and others who produce news for the Internet or other digital delivery systems. Other members include journalism educators, journalism students, business development, marketing and communications professionals in the media and those interested in the field of

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Online Journalism Awards (OJAs)

The Online News Association administers the Online Journalism Awards, the only awards honoring excellence in digital journalism. The OJAs focus on independent, community, nonprofit, major media and international news sites. Ten awards now come with a total of $60,000 in prize money, courtesy of the Gannett Foundation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.About the Online Journalism Awards
Aug. 3, 3015. The awards were launched in May 2000 as a joint effort of the Online News Association and the

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. Winners are announced at the annual conference.

Online News Association Conference & Awards Banquet

The organization holds an annual conference and awards banquet in the U.S., the Online News Association Conference & Awards Banquet, which features three days of training, leading media keynotes and a Career Summit & Job Fair. Past keynote speakers include: Twitter's Evan Williams;

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, Chief Information Officer of the United States in the Obama administration; AOL CEO Tim Page; then-NPR CEO

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, and journalists instrumental in the

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uprising. Since 2015, it has also held a shorter conference in Europe.

MJ Bear Fellowship

Starting in 2011, MJ Bear Fellowships have been awarded to three promising journalists under the age of 30. The fellowships "identify and celebrate young digital journalists, working independently or for a company or organization, who have demonstrated — through professional experimentation, research or other projects — that they deserve support for their efforts and/or vision." The first fellowships were awarded for the 2011-12 academic year. The 2016 MJ Bear Fellows: *Alex Laughlin, News Audio Fellow, BuzzFeed *

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, Producer, 30 for 30 Podcasts, ESPN *Sohara Mehroze Shachi, Programme Associate, United Nations Development Programme The 2015 MJ Bear Fellows: *Keron Bascombe, Freelancer Writer/Blogger, Trinidad and Tobago *Nadia Tamez-Robledo, Communication Specialist, Texas Nurses Association, Austin, TX *Ariana Tobin, Engagement Reporter, ProPublica, New York City, NY The 2014 MJ Bear Fellows: *Anika Anand, Director of Engagement at

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, an education news network *Rajneesh Bhandari, Independent Multimedia Journalist *Aaron Williams, News Applications Developer, Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) The 2013 MJ Bear Fellows: *Armie Garde, assistant content editor, multimedia journalist, Sun.Star Publishing, Cebu City, Philippines *Ashley Lohmann, freelance journalist and associate editor, ''Fair Observer'', San Francisco *Kyle Stokes, reporter, StateImpact Indiana, a collaboration of WFIU and Indiana Public Broadcasting The 2012 MJ Bear Fellows: *Hagit Bachrach, video producer at the

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*Tricia Fulks, freelance digital journalist; founding story director of "Hollow" interactive documentary *Denise Hassanzade Ajiri, web writer for Web writer for

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, Radio Free Europe. The 2011 MJ Bear Fellows: *Lucas Timmons, a data journalist and web producer for The

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*Laura Amico, the founder and editor of Homicide Watch in Washington, D.C *Lam Thuy Vo, formerly multimedia reporter for

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in Hong Kong, now at NPR's Planet Money.

AP Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship

ONA administers a national scholarship program funded by the

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and

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to foster digital, computer science and new media skills in student journalists. The scholarship, launched in 2011 and awarded six $20,000 scholarships to undergraduate and graduates students to apply to tuition.

References

* * Steve Outing, "Online News Association Forming; Interactivity, Part 2," Dec. 9, 1998
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External links

* {{Officialwebsite, http://journalists.org/ Journalism-related professional associations American online journalism 501(c)(3) organizations