{"id":3071,"date":"2017-10-05T16:16:22","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T16:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/?p=3071"},"modified":"2017-10-11T14:53:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T14:53:39","slug":"announcements-challenge-fund-womens-leadership-accelerator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/2017\/10\/05\/announcements-challenge-fund-womens-leadership-accelerator\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcements: Challenge Fund, Women’s Leadership Accelerator, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greetings from\u00a0ONA17, the Online News Association conference<\/a>\u00a0in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re delighted to share two announcements from this morning’s opening session:<\/p>\n

10 projects win Challenge Fund grants<\/h3>\n

Congratulations to the winners of the\u00a02017 Challenge Fund for Innovation in Journalism Education<\/a>. Each project will receive $35,000 to support local news experiments. The fund supports universities to partner with news organizations\u00a0and explore new ways of providing information to their local communities.\u00a0For 2018, the Scripps Howard Foundation joins as the sixth partner to the Fund managed by ONA, in addition to\u00a0the Excellence and Ethics in Journalism Foundation, the Robert R. McCormick Foundation, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Democracy Fund and the Rita Allen Foundation.<\/p>\n

Women’s Leadership Accelerator returns to Los Angeles<\/h3>\n

We’re thrilled to share that ONA’s\u00a0Women’s Leadership Accelerator<\/a>\u00a0will be held Feb. 25- March 2, 2018 at\u00a0<\/strong>the University of Southern California\u2019s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. The program is aimed squarely at developing strong leadership skills for women working in digital journalism. In 2018, the program will again accept 25 promising women leaders who are pushing innovation in their organization. Applications for the 2018 Accelerator will open this winter.<\/p>\n\n

For more updates from ONA17, check out\u00a0ona17.journalists.org<\/a>. We\u2019ll be livestreaming keynote conversations and many other sessions so you can tune in from wherever you may be. We’ll also be recording video and audio that will be available after the conference. Check out our handy guide of\u00a0how to follow ONA17 from afar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greetings from\u00a0ONA17, the Online News Association conference\u00a0in Washington, D.C. We\u2019re delighted to share two announcements from this morning’s opening session: 10 projects win Challenge Fund grants Congratulations to the winners of the\u00a02017 Challenge Fund for Innovation in Journalism Education. Each project will receive $35,000 to support local news experiments. The fund supports universities to partner…  Read More<\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"start_time":0,"end_time":0,"moderators":[],"hashtag":[],"soundcloud":[],"scribble":[],"viafoura":[],"youtube":[],"vimeo":[],"facebook":[],"trint":[],"slideshare":[],"livestream":[],"resources":[],"video_embed":[],"first_name":"","last_name":"","title":"","organization":"","website":"","twitter":"","_sponsor_url":"","_sponsor_tagline":"","_sponsor_level":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/10\/ONA17_Saturday-7173.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\nAnnouncements: Challenge Fund, Women's Leadership Accelerator, and more - ONA17<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n