Collaboration and Audience Engagement (ONA National Recap)

Audience engagement was a major theme in our September panel, and during much of the Online News Association's national conference. What tools, processes and best practices can we develop to improve our work in this space?

Please join us at WIRED's San Francisco headquarters to have a conversation about tools, collaboration, and audience engagement, and a recap from ONA's National Conference in Washington, DC. This discussion will be led by JSK Journalism Fellow at Stanford André Natta and is held in partnership with Hacks/Hackers SF.

Beverages will be provided.

SCHEDULE

7:00pm: Doors open

7:15pm (sharp!): Panel begins

8:30pm: Panel ends

9:00pm (sharp!): Doors close. We'll continue the conversation at Brickhouse (http://www.brickhousesf.com) (426 Brannan St. (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Brickhouse+Cafe+%26+Bar/@37.7801026,-122.3963527,18z/data=!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x80858078cd2bc9fd:0xe9ce9e25fef4c5e0!2s520+3rd+St,+San+Francisco,+CA+94107!3b1!8m2!3d37.7809972!4d-122.3958833!3m4!1s0x80858078a8309d49:0x8c5b9cd82e5dc974!8m2!3d37.779654!4d-122.3952323))!

This talk will be livestreamed to @onabayarea on Twitter.

SPEAKERS:

Indu Chandrasekhar oversees all of WIRED's efforts to grow its audience and increase reader engagement, focusing on search engines, social platforms, newsletters, content recommendations, and analytics. She previously worked at MarketWatch, The Wall Street Journal, and the Telegraph in London.

David Eads is a news applications developer at ProPublica Illinois, where he combines journalism with software development. Ever since he built the website for his high school newspaper in 1996, Eads knew he wanted to work at the intersection of media and technology. He moved to Chicago for college in 1999, studying physics at North Park University. During school he helped found the Invisible Institute (https://invisible.institute/), where he also maintained a blog about Chicago public housing called The View From The Ground (https://invisible.institute/the-view-from-the-ground/). He later helped create FreeGeek Chicago (http://www.freegeekchicago.org/), a community-based computer recycling organization and the Supreme Chi-Town Coding Crew (https://chi-town-coders.herokuapp.com/), a weekly workshop to teach data journalism. He’s also worked on visual journalism teams at the Chicago Tribune and, most recently, at NPR Visuals (http://blog.apps.npr.org/).

Yvonne Leow is the cofounder of By The Bay, a local news publication explaining SF politics and issues to young, busy residents. She's also the national president of the Asian American Journalist Association. Formerly, she was a senior Snapchat editor at Vox.com and a John S. Knight fellow at Stanford University, 2014-2015. Before she moved back to the west coast, she was the Director of Video at Digital First Media, and the west regional video producer for the Associated Press.

HOSTED BY:

André Natta is a journalist and columnist based in Birmingham. Before starting his JSK fellowship at Stanford in September, he contributed to a regular column about diversity in journalism for The Poynter Institute and reported and managed digital strategy for Birmingham’s NPR affiliate, WBHM-FM. He also served as the digital media specialist for the Southern Education Desk, a multistate, Corporation for Public Broadcasting-funded local journalism collaborative. Natta served as an organizer for #wjchat (https://twitter.com/hashtag/wjchat?src=hash), a 7-year-old weekly online chat about digital journalism and started an online publication about Birmingham and its progress, The Terminal, in 2007. The Bronx, New York, native attended the Savannah College of Art and Design, studying architectural history and architecture and has previously worked in both hospitality and economic development.

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For this event, we ask for a $5 contribution from attendees to help offset costs for beverages and speaker travel. However, we want to make sure all can attend — if you're not able to contribute this amount for any reason, please get in touch directly through our Meetup.