Lauren Slavin of Towson University checks out a video camera in the ONA10 Student Newsroom. Photo by Julia Schmalz for ONA.
The Online News Association, the world’s largest membership organization of digital journalists, is pleased to announce the members of the ONA11 Student Newsroom, who will provide intensive coverage of the Online News Association Conference & Awards Banquet, Sept. 22-24 in Boston.
For the second year running, Google will provide a $20,000 scholarship to cover travel and lodging expenses for the 20 students attending ONA11.
The students will bring a rich, varied set of multimedia skills and fresh perspective to conference coverage. Mentored by working journalists and journalism professors, they’ll provide insight into people, events and issues using a range of digital formats and styles, including interactive text and graphics, live blogging, slideshows, audio and video.
Under the direction of Committee Co-Chairs Sara Kelly of National University and Michelle Johnson of Boston University, the students will be getting right to work. In the weeks leading up to ONA11, they’ll give attendees a comprehensive preview, including details on session topics and interviews with conference presenters and speakers.
Once again, the high overall quality of our applicants made the selection process particularly challenging. Chosen from applicants across the United States and abroad, they boast an impressive combination of professional experience and academic credentials.
The students are:
- Scott Allison, Miami University of Ohio
- Jeremy Bauer-Wolf, Towson University
- Andy Colwell, Penn State University
- Carmel Delshad, City University of New York
- Lauren Furniss, University of Southern California
- Daniel Gamberg, San Francisco State University
- Anum Hussain, Emerson College
- Michael Jimenez, Texas A&M University, San Antonio
- Bo Kim, University of California Berkeley
- Ashley Lisenby, Boston University
- Chelsia Marcius, New York University
- Jeremy Merrill, Claremont McKenna College
- Sarah Moomaw, Northeastern University
- Matthew Nelson, Drake University
- Ugonna Okpalaoka, Ohio University
- Adam Perez, University of Southern California
- Kathleen Raven, University of Georgia
- Daniel Sircar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Frank Yonkof, Kent State University
- Katie Zhu, Northwestern University
For more about the students, see the ONA11 Student Newsroom page.
