Listening to the audience is key to improving immersive 360/VR experiences

When I started my residential fellowship at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute 10 months ago, I wanted to investigate how 360/VR content creators could better put the audience at the center of our production process so that immersive journalism, and immersive technology in general, may reach its full potential. One of the biggest obstacles … Continued

Areas of implementation

Like the DNA that forms the basic building blocks of life, digital news archives form a foundation for information systems upon which modern culture, government, business and science can be constructed and maintained. A variety of economic, technological, political and social factors have produced the current digital preservation quandary. JDNA proposes an implementation of Theory … Continued

Twitter analysis of TV news events

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.

Twitter analysis of TV news events

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.

Learn a little, teach a little, everyone wins

The second year of a Reynolds Journalism Institute program that turns a journalism student into a teacher of digital and social media skills at a community newspaper was another big hit. The 2019 edition of the Potter Digital Ambassador Program sent seven digitally savvy young journalists from the Missouri School of Journalism to seven newsrooms … Continued