Winning students deliver Android apps in competition

Source Columbia Business Times on May 27, 2011 0 Comments Ideas Experiments
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"Winning students deliver Android apps in competition," Columbia Business Times, May 27, 2011.

A mobile game that gives players incentives to track, publish and share news has taken the grand prize in the Student Developer Competition put on by Reynolds Journalism Institute.

Five teams of journalism, business and computer science students at the University of Missouri developed mobile apps for the Innovation Division of Hearst Inc. with support from technology partners Adobe, Google and Sprint.

Media Moguls is an Android-based game that lets players build their own game-world digital publication by selecting from among the day’s real-world breaking news and gaining viewership based on the popularity of the stories they select.

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Topics Games and Journalism, Journalism Education, RJI Fellows, RJI in the News, Student Competitions
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