Schultz’s goal was to continue developing a real-time fact-checking tool (Truth Goggles) he created as part of his master’s thesis at the MIT Media Lab. Truth Goggles needs to be updated with credible, up-to-date, local information to move past prototype status.

To draw attention to the digital transformation of journalism and journalism education, Eric Newton’s fellowship focused on creating a new type of teaching tool for educators — a digital book that, with a click, turns itself into a classroom edition.

Misha Leybovich, founder of Meograph, spent his fellowship developing and improving Meograph, a multimedia tool that allows users to combine video, audio, photography, text, maps, timelines and more in one place. Toward the end of his fellowship he announced he was developing the tool into a mobile app known as Trio, which launched in March 2015.

Kim Garretson’s fellowship intends to bridge a gap between disruptive innovation and the industries needing to embrace the change.

While at the Reynolds Journalism Institute, Trina Chiasson coordinated and executed a successful Kickstarter campaign to bring Infoactive (a Web-based platform that helps people make interactive infographics with live data) to public beta. The campaign raised more than $55,000 — 450 percent above the original goal — garnering support from nearly 1,500 backers around the world.

While a Reynolds Fellow, Matt (Sokoloff) Broffman developed Lure Membership Services with the desire of helping digital publishers increase their subscriptions using digital acquisition tactics. The business worked with publishers to help them capture more subscribers online by using cost-effective and proven methods.

Create a dashboard that will harvest and process Twitter responses to televised news in real time, providing valuable information about public opinion. Focusing on the 2012 campaign season, results will allow the news commentator to have a sense of what issues were hot-buttons, the relative response of males and females to each candidate and geographic responses to candidates or topics.

Create a dashboard that will harvest and process Twitter responses to televised news in real time, providing valuable information about public opinion. Focusing on the 2012 campaign season, results will allow the news commentator to have a sense of what issues were hot-buttons, the relative response of males and females to each candidate and geographic responses to candidates or topics.

Connie Farrow tested a business model for the American Newspaper Digital Access Corporation (ANDAC) for a system that would aggregate newspaper content from across the U.S. into a single, searchable, universal online archive. The goal of the work was to create new revenue for newspapers and content creators while protecting content from unauthorized use. By developing a central database, newspaper content can be managed and monetized for the creation of new products and services based on the needs of news publishers.

Alisa Cromer launched the first Angie’s list-style review site for media technology, MediaExecsTech during her fellowship. The site was developed by LocalMediaInsider for its more than 400 media subscribers. Local Media Insider is an online trade journal serving local media executives in television, radio and newspapers who are developing digital business models.