Tag: Engagement
When crafting your social media strategy, watch out for the curveball
Hannah Sandfield, Taylor Banks and Drew Matheiu Everything seemed to be going along quite nicely with our project to create a social media strategy for the monthly Cincinnati magazine, until it wasn’t. We then compiled research on Cincinnati Magazine’s competition and best-in-breed other city magazines, and on the social media platforms themselves and how to … Continued
Fact-checking: Journalism distilled to its essence
Angie Holan, editor of PolitiFact, speaks with us about fact-checking, how to get started and why it’s an important part of journalism today. Watch our next segment to see what Missouri residents thought about each of the claims we fact-checked and their opinions on fact-checking websites provided by news organizations.
Fact-checking: What’s true and false? Columbia weighs in
We interviewed residents in Columbia, Missouri, to see which claims they felt were true or false before we showed them the results of our fact-checking. Does the public feel that fact-checking websites are useful? Watch and see. And explore our fact-checker files in GitHub. In our expert segment, we speak with Angie Holan, editor of PolitiFact, about her work and advice … Continued
Augmented Reality: Tools for newsrooms
Tom’s Hardware News Director Seth Colaner speaks about augmented reality tools that newsrooms can use to present their content to news consumers.
Augmented Reality: Creating interactive news content
True/False Film Fest attendees speak about interacting with our augmented reality experience during the four-day event in March.
Live video: Have fun, it’s a community now
In this week’s piece we speak with Terez Paylor, Chiefs beat writer at The Kansas City Star, who goes live with readers every week.
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 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