Tag: Newsbooks
New edition of journalism primer on Islam now covers rise of ISIS and homegrown terrorism
Islam dominates the headlines but most Americans say they know little or nothing about the religion. A new edition of a journalism primer is designed to address that void. “Islam for Journalists (and Everyone Else),” written by top scholars and journalists who have long experience in the field, provides basic facts about the world’s fastest-growing … Continued
Embarking on third retirement, Fidler reflects on tech evolutions, his 1981 prediction about tablets
Mobile media scholar’s journalism career extended over more than half a century
Pulitzer Prize-winning series on coal miners’ black-lung claims available in RJI Digital Newsbooks
Chris Hamby of The Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C., today won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for his three-part series, “Breathless and Burdened: Dying from Black Lung, Buried by Law and Medicine.” According to the Pulitzer citation, Hamby won “for his reports on how some lawyers and doctors rigged a system to … Continued
RJI produces e-book to help fight plagiarism and fabrication
The American Copy Editors Society (ACES) will introduce a provocative new e-book produced at the RJI during the organization’s annual conference on April 4-6 in St. Louis. The e-book, titled “Telling the Truth and Nothing But”, addresses one of the most vexing issues confronting journalism today — plagiarism and fabrication. At the end of 2012, … Continued
RJI launches showcase for visually rich digital newsbooks
An online showcase has been launched to promote a source of in-depth, visually rich reporting on a wide variety of interesting topics, using digital publishing tools. The showcase, launched by Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute of the Missouri School of Journalism, includes investigative/explanatory journalism reports on a variety of subjects including illegal trading of human … Continued
AUDIO: Explaining the Information Trust Association idea
In this 22-minute audio podcast, Bill Densmore of the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) explains the evolution of the Information Trust Association idea. Accompanying the audio is a slide deck which can be viewed at: http://www.newshare.com/ita.pdf Densmore spoke at RJI on June 24, 2010, during a conference entititled: “From Blueprint to Building: Making the … Continued