RJI news
What crowdsourcing 10,000 pages of government records has taught
Last year, we launched our new crowdsourcing tool. Here’s what’s worked well and where we’re taking it next.
D.C. symposium to discuss social media and the First Amendment
Missouri-Hurley and Price Sloan Symposium will be held April 25 in Washington
Embrace your constraints: How to build better products by accepting what you can’t change
The RJI Futures Lab is creating a new tool to help reporters who cover live events save time and effort on deadline. TweetsToText is a Twitter bot that transforms live event tweets into a plain text file, saving time on copying and pasting tweets for an article post-event. The tool was built for journalists who … Continued
Pictures of the Year to celebrate winners during awards reception, public forum
Event to also recognize College Photographer of the Year
What to do with too many images
RJI digital curator Edward McCain begins quest to rank and sort photo files through AI
AI isn’t taking journalists’ jobs. It is making them smarter and more efficient
Utopian or dystopian? When it comes to artificial intelligence and machine learning, how journalists view the technology, and how willing they are to delve into the many layers it can empower, is the secret sauce in creating a better workplace. Five journalists from The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, WIRED, Dogtown Media and Graphika visited … Continued
A Trusting News analysis: What news consumers say they trust
Trusting News Project ReportDownload Fundamentally, news consumers trust journalism that they find to be balanced, in-depth, honest and reputable. Those qualities appeared over and over in an analysis of 81 in-depth interviews our newsroom partners conducted with members of their communities. And when asked directly about what defines quality journalism, they were at the top … Continued
RJI Fellow’s playbook will help newsrooms collaborate on natural disaster coverage
Pooling resources and collaborating on projects in a wire service type situation can help newsrooms more adequately cover breaking news such as weather events, said Fergus Bell, co-founder of Pop-Up Newsroom. Bell, a 2019-20 RJI Fellow, said he has heard several people express a need for extra hands during such a situation. That inspired him … Continued
Backing local news, building trust, innovating solutions
The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute has awarded seven fellowships for the 2019–20 academic year with projects to improve gun violence reporting, expand solutions-based journalism by local TV stations, help large and small newsrooms get the most out of push notifications, customize audio documentaries through voice commands, measure the community impact of online stories and … Continued
Post Episode 8: Investigative filmmakers and podcasters discuss their popular documentaries
In Episode Eight, Post reviews investigative documentaries, including two that are currently popular on Netflix. This show features the documentaries Ghost Fleet and The Devil We Know, the docu-series Evil Genius, and the podcast series In the Dark, Season Two.