Tag: Maneater
Launching the Arts Journalism Initiative
Faced with a declining landscape for traditional arts coverage, shrinking newsroom budgets and an explosive rise in digital influencers filling the vacuum, 2025-2026 Residential RJI Fellow Rebecca Ritzel set out to look for solutions that preserve the quality and integrity of arts and culture journalism. Ritzel, a freelance arts and entertainment reporter and longtime contributor … Continued
‘Critics in Columbia’ pilots alternative to imperfect press junket formula
True/False, a documentary film festival running March 5-8 in Columbia, Missouri, is the stage for a pilot program that will showcase an alternative method of bringing the press and arts festivals together.
Taking the road less traveled
Ethics prevent journalists from accepting free trips, but maybe there’s another way.
Finalists chosen in RJI Student Innovation Competition
Ten student teams from universities all over the country have been selected as finalists for the 2025 Student Innovation Competition.
2024 RJI Student Innovation Fellows to spend summer helping community newsrooms innovate
Four Missouri School of Journalism students have been named the 2024 Student Innovation Fellows at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute.
Reynolds Journalism Institute’s Watchdog Writers Group announces new fellows and student reporters at Missouri School of Journalism
Authors will produce books while mentoring students on reporting and research.
Introducing the College Media Playbook
Helping student newsrooms be more efficient, sustainable and innovative.
Coalition tactician
As a fledgling managing editor at The Maneater, Sydney Lewis often learned on the fly. Now the junior is connecting college newsrooms nationwide to build a novel network of support.
Newest class of RJI Student Innovation Fellows to help newsrooms develop inventive solutions this summer
Six students at the Missouri School Journalism have been selected for the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute’s (RJI) Student Innovation Fellowships program. They will work at local news organizations around the country this summer to gain hands-on experience with a wide variety of innovative newsroom projects. “The 2023 RJI Student Innovation Fellows are all very … Continued