Tag: Innovation team
Building a chatbot trained on your newsroom’s content
What it takes: time, money and ethical considerations.
RJI Innovation Hub launches, brings together free resources for newsrooms
The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) has announced the launch of the RJI Innovation Hub, an interactive website where RJI’s toolkits, guides and other resources for journalists and newsrooms are available in one place. These free resources — such as Agenda Watch, a tool that gathers information from public government meetings, or a guide … Continued
RJI launches new Innovation in Focus newsletter
The Innovation Team at RJI has launched the Innovation in Focus newsletter, a monthly exploration of the practical experiments performed as part of the Innovation in Focus series.
RJI partners with digital director of One Newsroom for Independent Journalist Bootcamp
The Missouri School of Journalism’s Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute will host its first-ever Independent Journalist Bootcamp from May 19-20. The virtual bootcamp, which will feature sessions covering a wide range of skills and issues in independent journalism, is open to anyone — college students, independent journalists and newsroom staff alike are encouraged to attend. … Continued
William Lager joins Reynolds Journalism Institute innovation team as project manager
William Lager will join the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism as the Innovation Lab project manager and editor starting Jan. 31.
Mikaela Rodenbaugh to join Reynolds Journalism Institute as senior editor
Mikaela Rodenbaugh, formerly a project manager for content innovation at Gannett, will join the institute as senior editor of the innovation team starting Nov. 8.
Automating calendars for small newsrooms
The less time journalists spend on rote tasks like data entry, the better. In this project we automated collecting event information for St. Louis Magazine’s website’s event calendar.