Author: Lamar
Adding full text search to Open States
In response to numerous requests, Open States now features the ability to search all legislation by keyword, and to receive updates when new bills matching keywords are updated.
There’s a reader revenue revolution happening. Will legacy news miss it — again?
When it comes to legacy news media and any new digital innovation, you can usually count on two things: The innovation will begin too late, and even when it does, it’s often a half-measure that doesn’t make up lost time.
Audio to video: The Sallie House
Listen to a haunting story produced using audio to video web tools for newsrooms
RJI Student Innovation Competition 2020
Rules and deadlines for the 2020 competition
Immersive Documentaries: Collaborate with the community
Al Jazeera Contrast shares how they produce immersive documentary experiences
Post Episode 13: Teachers help test schools for lead, mold and asbestos
A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team joins the show to talk about one of their recent projects: Toxic City, which recently won an IRE award for innovation.
Missouri School of Journalism launches online teaching resources for junior and high school teachers
The Missouri School of Journalism has launched a free, 25-module online learning tool for middle school and high school teachers who want to teach or revamp their journalism or strategic communication lessons.
RJI Fellow says better reporting can help fight against gun violence
With mass shootings regularly in the news, questions loom about how to prevent these types of gun-related tragedies. Journalists can play a role with good, solutions-based reporting, says Jim MacMillan, multimedia journalist and educator.
RJI Fellow: Push notifications can help move publishers away from heavy reliance on Facebook
As she seeks to rely on Facebook less with its algorithms changing and impacting outbound links and referrals, Planet Princeton publisher and editor Krystal Knapp says push notifications have been a way to directly reach readers where they are.
Push alerts: Useful or annoying?
A team of five from The Associated Press, they plan to spend the next eight months looking into the real value of push alert notifications that are bringing news to consumers.