Tag: Journalism education
RJI Student Innovation Fellow takes talents to ABC News ahead of 2020 presidential primaries
Fellowship program pairs up digitally-minded millennials with newsrooms
Instagram and RJI partner for Instagram Local News Fellowship
Three MU student journalists to spend summer working for newsrooms to help build community through local news coverage on Instagram.
Team tasked with solving The Associated Press challenge wins business journalism competition
A University of Missouri team tasked with increasing awareness, bringing in more customers and monetizing the health and science vertical at The Associated Press won the 10th annual Entrepreneurship and Media of the Future Symposium competition. The competition brought together graduate students from the Missouri School of Journalism and Trulaske College of Business to tackle … Continued
Short Takes: Lessons from a failed newsletter in how to engage with your audience
Quinn Ritzdorf Short Takes is an occasional series that captures interesting work by Missouri School of Journalism students. As part of my RJI Student Innovation Fellowship with the Greeley Tribune in Greeley, Colorado, a co-worker and I were given the task to start and grow a paid subscription newsletter, The Playbook, that covered rural prep sports … Continued
Short Takes: Building baseball excitement for a town without a team
Danny Stewart Short Takes is an occasional series that captures interesting work by Missouri School of Journalism students. With social media, instantaneity is king. How do you develop an online audience for a baseball team in a new city that isn’t playing there until 2021? Throughout the 2018 Minor League Baseball season, it was heavily … Continued
Smart alarm clock delivering local news wins 12th annual journalism development competition
Winners will visit tech, media leaders in Boston later this year
Mobile microlearning works! Sample the first course in digital journalism delivered to your phone
Almost two years ago, Linda Austin asked for your help in identifying your training needs in digital journalism. Now, the results are back from that first course in digital journalism delivered via mobile microlearning.
Sonification: Turning stories into sound
Michael Corey, Senior Data Editor at Reveal, shares his tips for sonification storytelling
Learn a little, teach a little, everyone wins
The second year of a Reynolds Journalism Institute program that turns a journalism student into a teacher of digital and social media skills at a community newspaper was another big hit. The 2019 edition of the Potter Digital Ambassador Program sent seven digitally savvy young journalists from the Missouri School of Journalism to seven newsrooms … Continued
Inside The Seattle Times: A case study in community-funded journalism
Through her RJI Student Innovation Fellowship, Hannah Rodriguez was able to observe how reporters and editors at The Seattle Times worked to thread the needle of maintaining independence while receiving outside money for initiatives.