Tag: San Francisco Chronicle
AMP Stories: A visual experience
Our last segment for Innovation in Focus was the AMP story we built on paragliding in Columbia. If you are familiar with AMP technology, you may know AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages, a Google project designed as an open standard for publishers to have pages load quickly on mobile devices. AMP stories is a … Continued
RJI-sponsored Women in Journalism workshop will help prepare, empower attendees for success at work
Female journalists can find themselves in situations that life didn’t prepare them for. Circumstances can range from how to protect oneself while photographing a protest to how to recover mentally after reporting a fatal car accident. Or even how to negotiate a fair salary. The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute is sponsoring a Women in … Continued
Kat Duncan joins RJI as senior video editor
The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute has named Kat Duncan, a former photo and video editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, as its new senior video editor. Among Duncan’s responsibilities will be working with RJI’s Futures Lab staff as they rebrand and redevelop the lab’s online show, “RJI Futures Lab Video Update.” The new show, … Continued
California trip makes us a stronger team
If you’ve watched the reaction video taken at the RJI Tech Showcase in late April, you probably already know just how shocked we were to win the app competition. We didn’t even all know each other before starting the competition, so getting to this point was pretty surreal for us. We had no idea what … Continued
Monetization of news
In the face of decreasing revenues and increasing costs, news agencies everywhere are exploring creative methods of extracting more funding from their products. Some methods are more suitable to larger organizations and others to smaller ones; each one has drawbacks, and for many, they are a gamble. However, some of these gambles have become viable … Continued