RJI news
Mobile video: Make it snackable
Alisha Ebrahimji, digital journalist at WFAA-TV in Dallas, speaks about creating unique content in the field for social platforms and what mobile tools are useful when working on deadline.
What a California newspaper is learning as it experiments with podcasting
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 RJI series highlights some of the innovations and experiments we discovered and shares what leaders are learning along the way. We call it The What’s New? Q&A.
Mobile video: The Dumas
Linda Doles grew up watching and helping her parents manage the Dumas apartment building in Columbia, Missouri. Today she manages it with the help of her own family.
RJI-sponsored Women in Journalism workshop will help prepare, empower attendees for success at work
Female journalists can find themselves in situations that life didn’t prepare them for. Circumstances can range from how to protect oneself while photographing a protest to how to recover mentally after reporting a fatal car accident. Or even how to negotiate a fair salary. The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute is sponsoring a Women in … Continued
New online textbook is comprehensive resource for teaching media entrepreneurship
This Q&A has been edited for space and clarity. An evolving online textbook, written and reviewed by entrepreneurs, student innovators and educators, prepares journalism students to take entrepreneurial work from “idea to implementation.” Co-editor Michelle Barrett Ferrier, 2016–17 RJI Fellow and an Ohio University professor, says “Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship” was born out of the … Continued
Judd Slivka named new RJI director of aerial journalism
The Missouri School of Journalism’s Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute has created a new program that will explore drones and other journalism opportunities in the sky. Judd Slivka, assistant professor of convergence journalism, has been named its first director of aerial journalism. “This new position will examine the different facets of this emerging area,” says … Continued
RJI Futures Lab adds new senior editor to its team
Journalist and developer James Gordon has joined the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute as the new senior editor for the RJI Futures Lab. He will help RJI as it grows its technical expertise, particularly in mobile technology and artificial intelligence. Gordon will develop, test and analyze new platforms for journalism. His work will include analyzing … Continued
Potter Digital Ambassadors visit five weekly newspapers to boost outlets’ multimedia, social media
The Potter Digital Ambassadors program recently paired five college journalism students with rural Missouri newspapers to help implement multimedia and social media strategies. This was the inaugural year of the program, which is underwritten by Missouri School of Journalism alumnus and newspaper editor Walt Potter. The ambassadors, all from the Missouri School of Journalism, had … Continued
RJI Fellow launches Deputy Program as free newsroom engagement tool
My goal as a 2016-17 Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute fellow was to help news organizations keep tabs on the communities they serve using available and often limited resources. The result of my efforts is the Deputy Program, a simple, cost-effective way to boost news-gathering capacity by harnessing the power of community networks via text … Continued
Low-tech resource helps reporters focus on the story at hand
To all of you DIY reporters out there — and really, aren’t we all? — here’s a project that takes just 60 seconds to assemble and a lifetime to perfect. Like all DIY projects, you need some tools: A reporters’ notebook. Glue or tape. A printer and paper. Directions: Open a new Microsoft Word document … Continued