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Assistant Practical Professor Dominick Lee is a Part 107 commercial drone pilot with over 500 flight hours. He teaches the Drone Journalism course at Mizzou and flys the DJI Mavic 3 Pro to capture aerial videography for KOMU 8 newscasts.
November 18, 2025
Innovation

Drones’ impact on journalism continues to grow

Innovations can outpace regulations, says “The Drone Professor.”

The Haitian Times is building a community guide to connect people with Haitian businesses, nonprofits, restaurants and more.
November 13, 2025
Innovation

Efficient ways to collect information for a community directory

Experimenting with tools that scrape websites, collect data and format it efficiently.

Economic graph with a downward trend.
November 10, 2025
Innovation

The traffic and revenue crisis for news is a symptom of Big Tech’s economy-wide trust collapse

The news business is a key part of the solution.

The Innovation in Focus team drafted a map using Proxi in which community members can contribute points about places they find joy or find helpful resources. inewsource plans to incorporate this into future outreach.
November 3, 2025
Innovation

Going beyond traditional surveying to map community assets

Highlight community resources and stakeholders through interactive mapping.

Ryan Restivo speaks about YESEO at the Online News Association Conference ONA25 in New Orleans on September 13, 2025. Photo: Joe McFetridge | Online News Association
October 8, 2025
Innovation

YESEO launches three new paid features

Sign up to be one of 10 newsrooms that gets to test them for free.

Alli Finn, Senior Partnerships and Strategy Lead at the AI Now Institute
October 7, 2025
Innovation

How to make change through research

Q&A with Alli Finn, Senior Partnerships and Strategy Lead at the AI Now Institute.

Woman tapes a label to a whiteboard with several pieces of paper taped to it, while another woman looks on.
August 25, 2025
Innovation

Building a centralized content sharing platform for newsrooms

Making discoverability, republishing and sharing a priority.

Screenshot of Toolkit document
August 21, 2025
Innovation

Training a newsroom on data visualizations

Creating an accessible, comprehensive guide to data viz for reporters at all skill levels.

A map of power outages in Louisiana.
August 20, 2025
Innovation

Creating a map visualization that can auto-update data over time

Making public data more accessible with Tableau Public and GitHub actions.

The newsletter builder mode is where the Source uploads its templates, made in-house by our design team, and updates newsletter content.
August 19, 2025
Innovation

Newsletter A/B tests you can try — and how to set it up

Experimenting by adding links and generating AI summaries for newsletters.

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