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Experiments

RJI tests great ideas in experiments in its own Futures Lab and Techology Testing Center and in real-world settings.

RJI, Nine Network team analyze how to add value to television news with social media

By Jennifer Nelson on April 5, 2013 0 Comments Blogs
Kent Collins

How can journalists use social media to dig deeper into issues to make stories richer and audiences bigger?

Futures Lab update #2: Drones, Truth Teller and other tools

By Reuben Stern, Olga Kyle on March 26, 2013 0 Comments Blogs

Are drones the future of outdoor journalism? Can an algorithm really catch a politician lying? And how do you make sense out of countless pages of government documents?

Mobile Mizzou: Observations and analyses from mobile industry exhibition

By RJI on March 8, 2013 0 Comments Blogs
Mizzou Mobile

As the mobile industry continues to change and evolve at lightning speed, what can we expect to see in the future of the technology and infrastructure?

The pros and cons of remotely covering the Mobile World Congress

By Clyde Bentley on March 7, 2013 0 Comments Blogs
Mobile journalists tools

Last year I wrote that I had "gone naked" at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This year I went further — I ditched my body altogether.

Reynolds Fellows Project Updates

Thursday, February 14, 2013 - Wednesday, February 27, 2013 Events

Every year the Reynolds Fellows carry out major projects aimed at enhancing the practice or understanding of journalism or advertising. Curious to know what they're up to? Join the Reynolds Fellows at a series of brown bag sessions throughout the month.

Researching what subscribers will pay for digital content is crucial

By RJI on February 25, 2013 0 Comments News
Seattle Times bundles

Researchers at RJI have developed an experimental research method, the pricing optimizer, and are testing the tool in a partnership with The Seattle Times.

When you come to the fork, take it!

By Randy Picht on February 19, 2013 0 Comments Blogs
Key Executives Mega-Conference

It’s always fun to see the line in the sand or the fork in the road clearly demonstrated right before your eyes.

RJI, Nine Network use social media to expand Sandy Hook tragedy discussion

By Jennifer Nelson on February 5, 2013 0 Comments News
Stay Tuned

Since the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting tragedy was the talk of America in December, it was not hard to get St. Louis, Mo., area residents to tweet and Facebook their thoughts for a new public affairs program — “Stay Tuned.”

Selling local is hard - Tips to make it work

By Matt Sokoloff on February 1, 2013 0 Comments Blogs
Your ad here

5 things you need to do to make selling local work

Stay Tuned: A public media initiative

By Kent Collins on January 31, 2013 0 Comments Blogs
Stay Tuned

Stay Tuned represents an effort by the Nine Network of Public Media and the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri School of Journalism to create a sustained community dialogue around the issues most important to our community while simultaneously creating a new way to create public affairs content.

Stay Tuned Google+ Hangout manual

By Kent Collins on January 17, 2013 0 Comments Blogs
Stay Tuned Google+ Hangouts manual

As promised here is a ‘manual’ you can use to develop your own Google + Hangouts for television news and public affairs.

A new genre of television journalism

By RJI on January 15, 2013 0 Comments Blogs
Stay Tuned

Reynolds Fellow Kent Collins has partnered with public broadcasting station KETC-TV, St. Louis, known as The Nine Network, for his 2012-2013 fellowship project at RJI.

Top 10 most-viewed videos

By RJI on December 28, 2012 0 Comments News
Top 10 most-viewed videos 2012

The top most-viewed videos included an introductory tour of the new Application Development Lab.

Top 10 most-read blog posts

By RJI on December 27, 2012 0 Comments News
Top 10 most-read blog posts 2012

The top read blogs were written by fellows including Paul Bolls, Joy Mayer and Peter Meng’ about their research work and findings.

Reynolds Journalism Institute develops non-residential fellowship for 2013-2014

By RJI on December 24, 2012 0 Comments News
Reynolds Journalism Institute

Do you have an innovative idea to improve the practice or understanding of journalism you’ve wanted to try but haven’t had the resources or time?

Chapter one: How RJI came to be on TV

By Kent Collins on December 10, 2012 0 Comments Blogs
Kent Collins

The mission: To put social media on steroids before, during and after the KETC weekly program and see if we can make the public forum broader and more diverse.

Journalism Accelerator shares tips, models, databases and more

By RJI on December 4, 2012 0 Comments Blogs
Word cloud

Need guidance, ideas or inspiration on your journey building a sustainable news business? The Journalism Accelerator is home to a collection of more than 300 resources.

Local digital preprints are a Black Friday opportunity

By Matt Sokoloff on November 20, 2012 0 Comments Blogs
Black Friday

The real reason my family will buy at least one copy of the [Thanksgiving day] paper is for the coveted Black Friday deal inserts from retailers (also known as “preprints”).

RJI Fellows share new reporting tool for coverage of the economy

By RJI on November 19, 2012 0 Comments Blogs
David Herzog

Created during the 2012 campaign, Econocheck is a new tool to help reporters verify and contextualize economic claims.

Web/mobile design using Adobe’s CS6

By Brian Steffens on November 14, 2012 0 Comments Blogs
Adobe CS6 tutorials

Jeff Goertzen, one of the industry’s top designers (USA Today, Denver Post, Orange County Register), has graciously agreed to share his tutorials on how to use the recently released Adobe publishing platform (CS6) to produce mobile content – without native apps or HTML5 web apps.