Tag: Columbia Missourian
Newsrooms come together to tackle problem of digital news preservation
Leadership from each of the Missouri School of Journalism’s professional media outlets gathered together in a conference room in late April, no small feat for a group in charge of “feeding the beast” of news media day after day while also juggling teaching responsibilities at the School. The challenge that brought them together? Preservation and accessibility of digital news archives.
RJI student innovation staffers work with community newsrooms to stay on cutting edge of technology and content
During the spring semester, four students at the University of Missouri worked at the Reynolds Journalism Institute as student innovation staffers. Annie Jennemann and Regan Mertz, both graduate students at the Missouri School of Journalism, worked under the tutelage of Kat Duncan, RJI’s director of innovation, while undergraduates Gabriella Miesner and Nolan Xiong were overseen … Continued
Interactive elections coverage: Tips and tricks
Interactivity and efficiency can change how readers interact with politics.
Audiences for news notice cutbacks, reward brands with quality momentum
Smartphones most relied on, but television is where audiences still find news of value.
Lost images: A DAM system detective story
If files aren’t findable, they might as well be gone.
9 things to think about before creating your own social justice beat
Success begins with analyzing your past coverage for a baseline for improvement.
Q&A: What a newsroom learned switching story budgets to Airtable
Save time, collaborate, integrate with new tools and share records requests.
Incorporating volunteers to expand football season coverage
We invited freshmen with no journalism experience into our ‘Get in the Game’ initiative Through the Missouri Method, we give students the opportunity to work in real-world newsroom environments. Meanwhile, our One Newsroom outlets are competing for eyeballs in the communities of mid-Missouri. And, like newspapers, magazines and television and radio stations all over the … Continued
Want to collaborate more? Get your tools to talk to each other
Put automations to work to make collaborating easier with tools like Airtable, Slack and Google Drive The One Newsroom, which is the convergence of The Columbia Missourian, KBIA, KOMU, Vox Magazine, and the Missouri Business Alert, into one space, has created more opportunities for collaboration. The Missourian converted its old content budgeting process (once hosted … Continued
Communicating corrections across multiple newsrooms
When content is shared, there needs to be a plan to quickly create corrections across all outlets.