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We’ll take ‘design hubs’ for $400
Let’s play J-Parody: Society for News Design edition! This is the journalism game where I give the answer and a few hints, and you guess the question. Today’s category: Design hubs. The answer is: 1,134 Hint 1Hint 2Hint 3Hint 4Hint 5Hint 6Hint 7 Lee Enterprises: 395. GateHouse Media: 247. Gannett Company: 209. The McClatchy Company: … Continued
FL#193: Searching within video files via LivingLens
LivingLens offers an artificial intelligence-driven technology that can enable clients to search for specific emotions or sentiments within video files. Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Carl Wong tells us how it works. Reporting by Sarah Sabatke, Rachel Wise and Jessica King.
What an Idaho TV station is learning from flying a drone
We asked newsrooms and ad agencies what they are doing today that they weren’t doing a year ago. Turns out quite a lot! This new RJI series will highlight some of the innovations and experiments we discovered and share what leaders are learning along the way. We call it The What’s New? Q&A.
Memory holes and permanent errors: Part 1
The preservation of online news corrections, updates and post-publication edits.
FL#192: Audio sharing via SoundBYTE
(Video missing) SoundBYTE is a social app that allows users to record and share audio with followers around the world, 14 seconds at a time. We find out how it works from Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Dan Kearns. Reporting by Kexin Sun, Rachel Wise and Jessica King. Additional information The app is free and … Continued
DEAR READER: Why does this Trump article look like a comic book?
Editor’s note: There are plenty of challenges facing newsrooms around the country, so when you can knock off two birds with one stone it’s worth taking notice. In this case the two challenges are: 1) How do we get folks to engage with content that might be outside the comfort zones created by social media news feeds and 2) how do we find new ways to tell stories by taking advantage of digital delivery?
Blake Nelson, a graduate student at the Missouri School of Journalism, did indeed figure out how to do both by exploring the so-old-it’s-new-again journalistic tool of the comic strip. Here’s how he described it.
Jefferson Bailey: Lightning rounds: Supporting Data-Driven Research using News-Related Web Archives
Scroll to view transcript JEFFERSON BAILEY: [00:11]: Before I start, one of our sort of mantras at IA, is, “bits in, bits out.” So, I like that Mark did “bits in” and then I’m going to do “bits out.” Let’s see how it goes. [00:38] So, I wanted to talk about trying to get web archives into the hands of researchers, especially for computational … Continued
FL#191: VICE’s cinematic approach
(Video missing) VICE News has set itself apart from traditional broadcast news outlets with a more cinematic approach to its visual report. We find out how they do it from Maral Usefi, director/producer at Vice News Tonight. Reporting by Lindsey Miller Mentioned in our report Steadicam Smoothee$89.95This handheld device helps stabilize a mobile phone to … Continued
Promises, promises: Here’s where PolitiFact says Trump stands after nearly 100 days
Donald Trump is learning what most presidents do: It’s a lot easier to make campaign promises than to deliver on them. At PolitiFact, we’re tracking 103 promises Trump made during the campaign on our Trump-O-Meter. As Trump nears his 100th day in office, we’ve yet to find one promise he’s kept that required the support … Continued
Informator produces new insights, wins 2017 RJI Student Competition
A team of undergrads in computer science and journalism took the grand prize in the 10th annual RJI Student Competition with Informator, an intelligent mobile search tool that finds hidden relationships between key words and phrases, generating insights that help journalists find new angles to important stories. Convergence journalism major Humera Lodhi and computer science … Continued