RJI Facilities
RJI Facilities build on existing buildings and new construction at the northeast edge of historic Francis Quadrangle at the University of Missouri.
Set to open in September 2008, the Reynolds Journalism Institute’s (RJI) 30,000-square-foot facilities will offer lab space, meeting rooms, library facilities and other resources for students, faculty and visitors exploring the future of journalism and all of its diverse specialties.
RJI is located on the University of Missouri campus in Columbia, Mo. When completed, RJI will occupy prominent space at the northeast part of the main campus of the university in what was formerly known as the Sociology Building, part of Walter Williams Hall and new space constructed between the two buildings.
RJI Futures Lab and Demonstration Center
RJI’s Futures Lab provides an environment where students, faculty and visitors can prototype journalism innovations for delivery to media audiences. Likewise, the Demonstration Center experiment with the use of emerging technologies in journalism and advertising.
Both the Futures Lab and Demonstration Center routinely open their activities and experiments to visits from media professionals and citizens. They make findings available to both technology and media organizations as a service to industry and the public.
The Frank Lee Martin Journalism Library
The Frank Lee Martin Journalism Library — part of the larger MU Libraries structure with all the benefits that go with it — houses the largest collection of journalism-related materials in the world.
Lecture and Meeting Rooms
RJI Facilities include fully integrated lecture and meeting rooms with technology for conducting real-time and virtual seminars and conferences. These spaces aid in the work of visiting scholars, RJI experts and student groups alike. They also provide a space for the citizen-journalist interaction that is crucial to RJI’s mission.
Pictures of the Year International (POYi)
The Missouri School of Journalism’s Pictures of the Year International (POYi) program represents an unparalleled perspective on the American experience. For more than 60 years, the POYi photojournalism competition has recognized and collected the images that define and capture the news stories that shape our concept of the world. The program is housed in RJI facilities.