Roger Fidler speaks about tablets at ASNE workshop

"Newsbooks, e-readers create longer shelf-life for investigative journalism," MPI, October 1, 2011.

College journalism students are going digital with already published content.

Roger Fidler, program director for digital publishing with the Reynolds Journalism Institute, spoke about the Reynolds Journalism Institute-Digital Publishing Alliance (RJI-DPA) tablet project at the Tablet/Mobile Strategies and Visions for News Organizations workshop in St. Louis, Mo. Sept. 29.

At the University of Missouri, Fidler worked on a Newsbook project, for which more than two dozen Newsbooks were designed for DPA members between 2007 and 2010.

“[We are] taking stories newspapers have done as investigative reports and put them into e-book format,” Fidler said.

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