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Tag: Innovation in Focus

Joe Amditis is the assistant director for products and events at the Center for Cooperative Media. Photo: Center for Cooperative Media
December 27, 2022
Innovation

Defined focus can help newsrooms automate

A contained core of apps and systems keeps automated tools approachable and trackable: A discussion with Joe Amditis.

Emily Lytle
December 21, 2022
Innovation

Emily Lytle joins RJI innovation team as Innovation in Focus editor, will work with community newsrooms near and far to develop practical tools and solutions

Emily Lytle, formerly a reporter covering Sussex County, Delaware for Gannett newspapers in the state, will join the Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) at the Missouri School of Journalism as the Innovation in Focus editor. Lytle will start on Jan. 3.

A Google Calendar integration shows a newsroom’s ideas for December follow-up stories.
November 28, 2022
Innovation

Automating story follow-up tracking — for free

Airtable, Zapier and Google Drive products make remembering when to circle back to a topic a breeze. We built a simple automation system to track and share ideas for follow-up stories.

CMIC | College Media Innovation Coalition
October 24, 2022
Innovation

Students should lead innovation in the journalism industry

Introducing the College Media Innovation Coalition, a resource for student-led newsrooms to collaborate and communicate.

Bevin Christie
October 10, 2022
Innovation

Newsrooms’ service roles need to be grounded in community relationships

Building trust in a community requires listening and unlearning: a discussion with Bevin Christie.

A flow chart of text boxes and arrows shows a progression of messages and triggering criteria, from a welcome message to a list of resources.
October 3, 2022
Innovation

Creating an affordable text system for your community centered newsroom

SMS systems are often expensive, pay per a text plans can make it affordable.

A large header image reads "Being the Utility Man of Product Work" surrounded by different images of tasks done. On the first row, these images are: a news quiz, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution home page, and a wireframe mockup. On the second row, these images are: an Instagram story mock-up for a newsletter named "The Jolt", an Instagram story mock-up for an episode of "Braves Report", and a screenshot of a brand guidelines page.
September 26, 2022
Innovation

Being the utility man of product work

There is a lot to gain from getting to experiment in different spaces of product work on a team.

A screenshot of Trusting News' website homepage.
September 22, 2022
Innovation

How to curate product kits with resources you already have

Repackaging past work into helpful tools for your audience.

An illustration shows an incarcerated person writing with a pen/a prison bar representing the project's idea.
September 20, 2022
Innovation

Building a visual storytelling experience in Newspack

Newspack streamlines publisher content, but creative storytelling can be a challenge.

The social card above was posted to La Voz’s social media sites in English and Spanish to get the word out about the community listening sessions. Along with providing contact information, we also interacted with respondents in the comments of any posts we published to promote the events.
September 19, 2022
Innovation

How listening sessions can connect you to the local community

Build trust and improve content coverage from direct contact with readers.

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