The state of online journalism

The growing strength of visual online journalism will be on display at the Online News Association's annual conference in Toronto, Oct. 17-19. It comes a week after our own SND workshop in Boston, which also has a lot of strong content on the subject.

The ONA gathering will feature heavy-hitting speakers Hilary Schneider of Yahoo! and Michael Oreskes of the International Herald Tribune, an 'all-star superpanel' on the future of journalism, and workshops such as So You Want to Shoot Video? and Running a Digi-Newsroom on the Cheap.

Winners of the Online Journalism Awards will be announced at ONA's banquet at the Sheraton Centre. There are three Canadian finalists: The Globe and Mail in the General Excellence (Medium) category, cba.ca for news consumer reporting in the Service Journalism (Large) category, and the Toronto Star's Lost in Migration project for the Knight Foundation Award For Public Service.