Join us for the Ohio News Media and Collegiate Fellowship Day on Thursday, April 3!

Event will include Hooper and Collegiate Award presentations!

Don't miss your chance to attend the Ohio News Media and Collegiate Fellowship Day on April 3, 2025 from 9 am to 4 pm at the Quest Conference Center, located at 9200 Worthington Rd Ste 400, Westerville, OH 43082. The one-day event include the award presentations for the Osman C. Hooper Non-Daily Newspaper Competition and the Ohio Collegiate Newspaper and Website Competition along with a luncheon, idea-exchange roundtables, and networking opportunities.

The Quest Conference Center is located next to the Polaris shopping area and a number of hotels and restaurants.

Ohio News Media Fellowship Day Schedule

Date: Thursday, April 3
Location: Quest Conference Center, located at 9200 Worthington Rd Ste 400, Westerville, OH 43082
Parking and Access: The conference center has plenty of parking. Once inside the building, take the elevators to the 4th floor.

9:00 am: Registration Opens

9:30 am — Welcome by Jana Collier, ONMA Board President, and Monica Nieporte, ONMA Executive Director

9:40 am — Hooper and Collegiate Awards Ceremony

11:00 am — Presentation of the Newspaper and College Papers of the Year Awards along with the ONMA President’s Award

11:15 am — Break

11:20 am — How Editors and Journalists Can Safely Use AI, and When to be Wary
This panel will provide specific info and knowledge about generative artificial intelligence (AI) programs that publishers, editors and journalists can take back to their papers. Included will be examples of when and how papers can safely use AI systems, and what types of AI systems and creations papers need to be extremely wary about. The panel will feature Jessica Graue, who is the Clarion advisor and on the journalism faculty at Sinclair Community College, and Kyle Nagel, who is the managing editor of innovation at the Dayton Daily News/Cox First Media.

12:15 pm — Lunch

1:00 pm — ONMA’s Survey Results Overview by Monica Nieporte

1:15 pm — Roundtable Discussions

• Editorial Ideas, including Right to be Forgotten: Discuss reader engagement and editorial success stories along with challenges related to “right to be forgotten” requests, where people ask newspapers to take down online articles about them.
• Advertising Ideas, Public Notice Law Changes, and Using ONMA Survey Results to Increase Leads: Share ad ideas that have brought revenue in for your papers along with discussing changes in Ohio’s public notices laws and how to use the ONMA survey results to increase leads. The ONMA’s Monica Nieporte will lead discussions.
• Monetizing Your Archives: Many newspapers around the country have had success in using their archives to bring in additional money. Discussion will cover the pros and cons of this, along with potential technology partners and paths to take.
• Best Ideas for Campus: Discuss what collegiate papers across Ohio are doing along with how to address the challenges faced by the collegiate media.
• Solutions in the Newspaper Industry: What successes have papers found in the last year in terms of reader engagement, advertising, and circulation? Share your own paper’s success stories and hear what other papers are doing.
• Open Discussion Table, Anything Goes
  

2:15 pm — Break

2:30 pm — Roundtable Discussions continue

3:30 pm — Event closes