Tag: Reynolds Journalism Institute
RJI announces Local News Challenge to help local newsrooms tackle technology challenges
The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute’s innovation team is looking to tackle current technology-related challenges that local newsrooms are coping with but are unable to solve themselves. Knowing that local newsrooms don’t have all the resources of large legacy newsrooms has prompted RJI to launch the Local News Challenge to try to make local news … Continued
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.
‘Touching the Future:’ Q&A with a pioneer on the vision and future of tablets 10 years after iPad
Ten years have elapsed since Roger Fidler touched for the first time the thin, lightweight device he had been dreaming about since 1980.
RJI 2019: Strengthening journalism, connecting with citizens, preserving content and exploring tech
As another year ends, the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute reflects on some of its accomplishments and lessons learned with a mission of helping journalism survive and thrive.
Print archives show past impeachments. Where will we go to find the history being made today?
After Trump released a partial transcript of the call with Ukraine, Washington Post readers were treated to an almost exact parallel from 45 years ago. “That time Nixon released doctored transcripts during Watergate.”
Five takeaways from a new study of local digital news publishers
For-profit news startups are more likely to succeed than other small businesses, but many owners aren’t getting rich. I’ve been tracking these local, independent, digital news outlets for more than a decade and started Michele’s List in 2010. Now, with an assist from the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, I updated my database and surveyed … Continued
Saving history from disappearing
The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) and University of Missouri Libraries received a $250,000 grant this fall from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help ensure the survival of today’s digital news record for future generations.
Post Episode 14: Local news reporters expose government corruption, health concerns
In Episode 14, Post highlights reporting done by local news outlets that has made a difference for smaller communities often left out of the national news spotlight.
Missouri School of Journalism launches new investigative fellowship program to support authors
RJI to house new Watchdog Writers Group, which will provide stipends to authors as they work on in-depth print journalism projects.
POY judging event helps visual storyteller on her journey to tell her story of healing
Attending this year’s Picture of the Year judging in February helped POY’s inaugural Rising Star Scholarship recipient Rosem Morton better understand how pictures are organized into stories. “I know it contributed to effective storytelling, especially my own storytelling,” she says. The Rising Star Scholarship is offered to working visual journalists of color with five or … Continued