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Michelle Holmes
Michelle Holmes, Vice President, Alabama Media Group
Eric Carvin
Eric Carvin, Social Media Editor, The Associated Press
Cheryl W. Thompson
Cheryl Thompson, President, Investigative Reporters and Editors
Rubina Madan Fillion
Rubina Madan Fillion, Audience Engagement Director, The Intercept
Randall Rothenberg
Randall Rothenberg, President and Chief Executive Officer, Interactive Advertising Bureau
Shailesh Prakash
Shailesh Prakash, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, The Washington Post
10 years of innovating and more to come
The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute is celebrating 10 years of innovating and helping ensure that journalism has a long and bright future in the service of democracy. After several years of planning and preparation, the institute’s doors opened in 2008.
Putting Mayer’s research to work
Around 2012, Jodi Gersh was travelling to various large Gannett newsrooms and running engagement workshops. She had recently pioneered the first social media position inside Gannett, and now she was helping the company figure out how it could meet its readers on these powerful platforms they were using. She used Joy Mayer’s Community Engagement: A … Continued
Building trust one idea at a time
“One of the things I appreciated most about the Trusting News project is that Joy takes this big hairy topic of “trust in the media” and breaks it down into actionable steps,” says Sarah Binder, the former community engagement manager at the Cedar Rapids Gazette. Binder led the newsroom’s partnership with Trusting News in early 2018. The … Continued
Small-town print goes big-time digital
In the early 2010s, Mark Nienhueser was the sales director for Service Noodle, an online platform that made it easy for small, local service businesses to develop a website and gain a digital footprint. When he moved to the Missouri Press Association, in 2013, he realized there were a lot of untapped digital opportunities for … Continued