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Parenting in the Digital Newsroom, Speed Dating Style – ONA19

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Oct. 2, 2019
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Parenting in the Digital Newsroom, Speed Dating Style – ONA19

  1. Parenting in Digital Newsrooms Tips, Tricks, and Hacks to make work and life the best they can be #ONA19Parents
  2. Psst. Over here. This is important. To promote the most honest conversation, this session is *OFF THE RECORD* Feel free to social big thoughts and good moments with #ona19parents but please, no identifiers
  3. Get fresh Eat Drink Be merry But keep all food and drink in this room
  4. Block 1: Work Parental Leave Returning from Leave Advice for parents who manage parents Managing work travel Advice for being managed as a parent
  5. Parental Leave Policies What is your company’s policy? ● What would you change, if anything? What were some of the challenges you had negotiating leave/using your leave? ● How did you overcome those challenges?
  6. Re-Entry ● How did you prepare to go back to work? ● What were those first few days like? ● How did you manage your workload? ● Did you change your schedule? ● Did you change responsibilities? ● What helped you return to work? What made it harder?
  7. Parents managing parents ● How do you help the parents on your team thrive? ● What are some of the challenges you face in managing parents? ● How do you, as a parent, use your experiences to guide the parents on your team?
  8. Work travel ● Do you take the family with you? Leave them at home? ● How do you communicate while on the road? ● How do you negotiate work travel at your workplace? ● What are some of the challenges you face as a traveling parent in digital news?
  9. Being managed as a parent ● Is your manager a parent? Does that change how you talk to him/her? ● What are some of the challenges you wish your supervisors understood about your family situation?
  10. Block 2: Life Self care: Managing yourself as a manager with kids Talking Trauma: How to cope with tragedy Single parents: when it’s all up to you Self care: Finding your work/life chemistry
  11. Self Care: managing yourself as a manager with kids ● What are some of the ways you carve out time for self care? ● What does self care look like to you? ● How do you encourage your team to care for themselves? ● Do you practice what you preach?
  12. Talking Trauma: How to cope with tragedy ● Describe a traumatic event in your newsroom. How did your managers respond? ● What would you change, if anything? ● What language do you use with kids to talk about difficult things in news? ● How do you manage your mental health in a tough news cycle?
  13. Single Parents: When it’s all up to you ● What are some of the things you wish your co-workers and bosses understood about your situation? ● How do you organize and manage your work and home lives?
  14. Finding your work/life chemistry ● How do you define your job? ● What are some of the challenges you face in finding the right chemistry? ● What could your managers/employers do to help you find that chemistry?
  15. Block 3: Stages Prospective parents Infants and Toddlers Elementary School Middle/High School
  16. Prospective Parents ● What are some of the things you worry about in terms of work and responsibilities? ● Do you know your company’s leave policy? ● Do you have parent-mentors in your newsroom?
  17. Infants and Toddlers ● How do you manage child care? Who does that work in your house? ● Does your kid understand what you do for a living? How do you explain it? ● Has having a little kid changed the way you work or your work schedule?
  18. Elementary School ● How do you talk to your kids about what you do for a living? ● What news do you let your kids watch/read? ● How do you manage summers with your work schedule?
  19. Middle School/High School ● What are some of the challenges you face with your child? ● How are you preparing for college or post-high school life for your kid and for *you* ● How do you talk to your kids about social media, especially if you use it for work?
  20. Continue the conversation ● Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/344180556487717/ ● Network: find a mentor here!!! ● Stay tuned for a blog post It takes a village. Let’s support each other.
  21. Thank you! Be sure to visit the many ONA19 exhibitors in the third floor Exhibit Hall. Stephanie Backus Megha Satyanarayana Continue the conversation at #ona19parents
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