OCNA Webinar Series
OCNA is promoting webinars hosted by Online Media Campus and Newspaper Academy to help the association fulfill its mission of providing affordable and relevant training to members.
Upcoming Webinars:
Online Media Campus
Unleashing The Power of Collaboration: A Toolkit for Community Newsrooms
Thursday, August 8, 2024
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm (EST)
$35 USD; $45 after deadline (November 27)
Collaborating with other newsrooms and organizations can produce powerful journalism, but it's also challenging to manage limited newsroom resources for impactful outcomes. That's why collaborations director Bridget Thoreson teamed up with the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute to develop a collaborations toolkit for community-based newsrooms. In this webinar, Thoreson will share what she and her partners learned from in-depth interviews on collaborative journalism with 39 outlets, 44% serving local audiences, and how you can develop collaborations that serve your community.
Public Documents and Enterprise Reporting
Thursday, August 22, 2024
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm (EST)
$35 USD; $45 after deadline (November 27)
Public records are a powerful tool that journalists in newsrooms of any size can leverage to fuel enterprise reporting. During this session, Chris Coates and other journalists will provide tips about how to access information and real-world examples of how document digging paid off.
To view more information and archived webinars hosted by OnlineMediaCampus go to: www.onlinemediacampus.com
Newspaper Academy
Advanced InDesign Tools
Thursday, July 25, 2024
2:00pm - 4:00 pm EDT
$69 USD
There’s no better time to improve the InDesign skills of you and your staff. During this 60-minute session, Kevin Slimp – who has been teaching InDesign since it was first released – will be teaching skills to increase the speed of your productivity and quality of your design. A few of his topics include:
- Using InDesign scripts to speed your productivity
- Using scripts from other vendors in InDesign
- Creating tables
- Placing & formatting tables from various formats sent by others to you
- Using InDesign’s powerful Data Merge capabilities to import and merge data from Excel, Word and other database files
- and much more!
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from the guru himself … Come inside from the summer heat and enjoy 70 minutes of intense training with the Guru himself!
To view more live and archived webinars hosted by Newspaper Academy, go to: newspaperacademy.com
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Business Innovation Fund Webinar
Presented by: Josee Shank, Manager of the Business Innovation Program, Canada Periodical Team
Previously Held May 19, 2022
If you missed this webinar, please click on the link below to view the recorded version.
Click here to view webinar recording.
Click here to view power point presentation.
The Community Newspaper - Business Innovation component of the Canada Periodical Fund is designed to provide eligible Canadian publishers of print community newspapers and digital-only community newspapers with the financial support for projects that help produce and distribute high-quality, Canadian editorial content for Canadian readers.
For print and digital-only community newspapers, funding is granted through the approval of a project proposal based on the eligibility criteria of the program. The Business Innovation – Community Newspaper component is a competitive process and funds are limited.
Eligible publishing firms
- To be eligible for funding, publishing firms must meet all of the following requirements:
- be in operation throughout the application process and until the completion of the project;
- be majority owned and controlled by Canadians;
- be private-sector entities, including corporations, not-for-profit organizations, partnerships and sole proprietorships (Note: All applicants must have a Business Number (BN)); and
- have their principal place of business in Canada.
Eligible periodicals
- To be eligible for funding, periodicals must meet the following requirements:
- Print community newspapers:
- Have published between two and 52 regular issues and no more than 56 issues during the financial year, including special issues; and
- Have sold at least 3,500 paid copies through subscription copies and single-copy/newsstand copies during the financial year.
- Official language minority, Indigenous, ethnocultural and LGBTQ2+ community newspapers must have sold at least 2,000 paid copies during the financial year.
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Guidelines for Hiring and Compensating Ad Sales Personnel
Presented by: Caroline Medwell, OCNA Executive Director
Previously Held
If you missed this webinar, please click on the link below to view the recorded version.
Click here to view webinar recording.
Click here to view power point presentation.
This webinar included the following:
- Setting goals: trends, forecasts and investment levels
- Defining targets and territories
- Designing compensation plans: commissions, base, incentives, expenses, bonuses
- Job description
- Expectations for the position
- Interview Questions
- Offer Letter
- Orientation
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