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A multimedia series led by journalists at two University of Missouri media organizations are giving rural teenagers a chance to speak out about the joys and struggles in small Missouri towns via ‘My Life, My Town’.

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Prestigious photojournalism program Pictures of the Year International (POYi) will feature its award-winning Visions of Excellence exhibition at the Old U.S. Mint in New Orleans beginning Dec. 1 and running through January.

It felt odd to consider “exit strategy” at the recent Community Journalism Executive Training program (CJET), which brought nearly three dozen news organizations to Los Angeles for two days of intense, hands-on work developing specific business strategies and action plans.

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During a 15-day online celebration of First Amendment rights, Dec. 1-15, high school and college students nationwide can win one of five $5,000 scholarships through the "Free to Tweet" competition.

The real reason my family will buy at least one copy of the [Thanksgiving day] paper is for the coveted Black Friday deal inserts from retailers (also known as “preprints”).

Created during the 2012 campaign, Econocheck is a new tool to help reporters verify and contextualize economic claims.

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Jeff Goertzen, one of the industry’s top designers (USA Today, Denver Post, Orange County Register), has graciously agreed to share his tutorials on how to use the recently released Adobe publishing platform (CS6) to produce mobile content – without native apps or HTML5 web apps.

No sooner had Sandy begun to recede when the editors at Patch’s more than 850 sites had to resume election coverage, and ramp it up in the final days before voting. They churned out more than 12,000 stories on Tuesday, November 6.

Thursday morning, Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) Executive Director Randy Picht told RJI staff during a fall meeting, “It’s a great day to be at RJI.” I would echo that and also add, “It’s a great day to be a journalist.”

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