abstract:The Online News Association (ONA), founded in 1999, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization made up of more 2,000 members. It is the world’s largest association of digital journalists.
Jane McDonnell, executive director of the OnlineNewsAssociation, said the hyperlocal movement places emphasis on community news that's written by volunteers who usually are entrenched in their neighborhoods.
Twitter has ruffled a few feathers recently, so when CEO Dick Costolo took the stage at the OnlineNewsAssociation conference in San Francisco, he took the opportunity to put some minds at rest.
His online story and documentary on Mauritania, the last country to abolish slavery, won the prestigious Livingston Award for Young Journalists, as well as numerous other honors, including those from the Foreign Press Association, the OnlineNewsAssociation and Investigative Reporters and Editors.