Innovation in Focus

October 23, 2020

Lean into using your phone: Q&A with Sarah Singer

Sarah Singer is the senior director of innovation at Vice. I spoke to her about how Vice cultivates its presence and engagement across social platforms.

Thousands of medical workers have traveled across the country to aid COVID-19 patients. Click to view a day-in-the-life of one worker and her family.

August 28, 2020

Reporting

Interactive video: Day-in-the-life of frontline worker and their family

Thousands of medical workers have traveled to various parts of the country to aid COVID-19 patients. We asked one family of five to share what their typical day has been like during the pandemic, for the essential worker and her loved ones left behind at home. Visit the interactive video by clicking on the image … Continued

August 14, 2020

Reporting

Q&A: Behind the AP News app with Dave Clark

Tatyana Monnay is the RJI Student Innovation Fellow at the Associated Press. This summer our student fellows will be sharing dispatches from their fellowships in newsrooms across the country for Innovation in Focus. Dave Clark is a mobile editor for the Associated Press. We spoke with him about the work that goes into the language choices and editing for … Continued

July 22, 2020

Reporting

Interactive experiences: personalization and revisit value

For this Innovation in Focus, we spoke with Financial Times Data Reporter, David Blood, and Senior Developer, Ændrew Rininsland, to learn about how their interactive work has progressed, lessons learned, and see where they’re headed next. Greenway: How did you get started with interactive experiences? Rininsland: I’m a life-long web nerd and have been building web pages … Continued

June 15, 2020

Reporting

Remote tools for storytelling: Q&A with Corinne Bobrow-Williams

Corinne Bobrow-Williams, visual storyteller, uses remote tools like Zoom and Facetime to photograph her subjects

June 8, 2020

Reporting

Remote tools for storytelling: Lyons High School Yearbook

The Lyons Township High School had to finish their yearbook from their homes because of the pandemic

May 18, 2020

Reporting

Newsrooms gain support on innovative work during COVID-19 with RJI Student Innovation Fellowships

The coronavirus pandemic has presented numerous challenges to newsroom of all sizes. RJI hopes to do its part to keep moving forward innovation and new ideas with a summer version of its RJI Student Innovation Fellowships.