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Digital media group grows roots

Young association finds home at NPR's new headquarters McDonnell Under Executive Director Jane McDonnell's leadership since 2008, the (now) Washington, D.C.-based Online News Association has rapidly expanded. Its budget has more than quadrupled to $1.8 million, and the once volunteer-run organization will hire its seventh employee in August, she told CEO Update. When you grow like that, even a virtual association whose 2,100 member journalists spend their days plying the Internet has to think about bricks-and-mortar office space. (McDonnell previously ran the group from her Crownsville, Md., home, near Annapolis.) On July 1, ONA moved into its first office. The space… Read More