Bringing Readers Back: Real-World Tactics for Combating News Fatigue

Bringing Readers Back: Real-World Tactics for Combating News Fatigue is a virtual professional development case study on Zoom, Wednesday, September 2, 2026, 12:00–1:00 PM EDT: ONA26 presenters Angela Pacienza and Jennifer Kho reprise and update their popular “Bringing Readers Back!” presentation. Addressing news avoidance amid unending content, they offer tactics for friendlier, more relatable offerings: new beats, broader alerts and an audience-first story mix. Pacienza, The Globe and Mail’s Executive Editor, helps lead newsroom strategy and champions innovative cross-platform storytelling, journalistic excellence and audience-focused journalism; she serves on Canadian Journalism Foundation and ONA boards, graduated from ONA’s Women’s Leadership Accelerator (2018) and began with ONA stuffing delegate bags at ONA07 in Toronto; Kho consults on newsroom innovation and transformation and was most recently Chicago Sun-Times executive editor, its first woman and first person of color in tha

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