Tag: Technology
Augmented Reality: Creating interactive news content
True/False Film Fest attendees speak about interacting with our augmented reality experience during the four-day event in March.
Ergonomics: What I’ve learned while battling a repetitive motion injury
Imagine coming to work and not being able to type a story on your keyboard because of intense pain in your wrist, elbow or fingers. It’s a scary thought. I never thought it could happen to me. I’m only 33 years old. But I’ve been suffering from tendonitis for several months. More than a year ago I began having pain in my left wrist periodically. But it usually came and disappeared within the same day. Then suddenly it became more noticeable, and gradually it became a constant companion. I love to write, but I almost dreaded coming to work because I didn’t want to be in pain. Like everyone I use my hands continually throughout the day, so it’s been a slow recovery process.
An ergonomic specialist reviewed my workstation and gave me suggestions for furniture that would help me become more ergonomic. She also suggested various assistive technology such as dictation to help alleviate some of the pain and give my wrist the rest it needed to recover.
—JN
Live video: Have fun, it’s a community now
In this week’s piece we speak with Terez Paylor, Chiefs beat writer at The Kansas City Star, who goes live with readers every week.
RJI Futures Lab senior editor to teach Python data science course at CAR conference in Chicago
This week, I’ll reunite with my California Civic Data Coalition colleagues to co-teach a six-hour, hands-on session at the annual Computer-Assisted Reporting Conference in Chicago. Our class, “First Python Notebook,” is for journalists who want to learn data science. We’ll show our students how to use computer-assisted techniques to report on money in state politics, but the skills could … Continued
RJI provides interactive experience for True/False Film Fest visitors with augmented reality project
True/False Film Fest visitors in Columbia, Missouri, will have an opportunity to reminisce about previous festivals in an interactive experience with the help of a mobile app. Filmgoers can find window clings featuring augmented reality codes, each with a lightning bolt icon, at the film venues, box office and other areas frequented during the festival. There are 14 codes. Each is a different color to represent the … Continued
Mobile video: Tips and tools
Which of the three apps we tried was the best for mobile video editing? Watch and see.
Mobile video: Make it snackable
Alisha Ebrahimji, digital journalist at WFAA-TV in Dallas, speaks about creating unique content in the field for social platforms and what mobile tools are useful when working on deadline.
What a California newspaper is learning as it experiments with podcasting
We asked newsrooms and ad agencies what they are doing today that they weren’t doing a year ago. Turns out quite a lot! This RJI series highlights some of the innovations and experiments we discovered and shares what leaders are learning along the way. We call it The What’s New? Q&A.
Mobile video: The Dumas
Linda Doles grew up watching and helping her parents manage the Dumas apartment building in Columbia, Missouri. Today she manages it with the help of her own family.
Judd Slivka named new RJI director of aerial journalism
The Missouri School of Journalism’s Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute has created a new program that will explore drones and other journalism opportunities in the sky. Judd Slivka, assistant professor of convergence journalism, has been named its first director of aerial journalism. “This new position will examine the different facets of this emerging area,” says … Continued