Journalism Education

As a follow-up to the June release of the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) report, "Information Needs of Communities," the Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) will host a day-long symposium focusing on the regulations and policy recommendations.

"With Jacqui Banaszynski as collaborations editor, Public Insight Network will expand its editorial team in order to produce stories of national importance and regional relevance and support similar reporting projects in PIN newsrooms around the country."

"Media and Money: Worldwide economic upheaval changes the shape of news," this year's annual IPI Report, brought together top journalists from around the world to address the international upheavals in economics and journalism. Edited, produced and published by the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) for the International Press Institute, several industry leaders associated with RJI contributed to the work. The annual IPI Report was released Monday during the IPI World Congress in Taipei, co-edited by Marty Steffens, the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) Endowed Chair in Business and Financial Journalism, and Randy Smith, Donald W. Reynolds Endowed Chair in Business Journalism, both at the Missouri School of Journalism.

Other contributors to the Report from the Missouri School of Journalism and RJI include the Lee Hills Chair in Free Press Studies Amy McCombs, the Houston Harte Chair in Innovation Mike Jenner, 2010-2011 Reynolds Fellow David Cohn, recently retired and former Lee Hills Chair Stuart Loory, and Director of Pictures of the Year International (POYi) Rick Shaw.

Oh, my God,” he said, even before Deaton had a chance to explain the award. Later, McKean said he’s “rarely speechless, but this might be one of those times I come close.”

Nineteen leading MU students from journalism, business and computer science are bringing extensive backgrounds in design, content creation, marketing and programming to bear on five mobile application challenges from Hearst Innovation. Learn more about the teams that will meet those challenges, with help from contest sponsors Adobe, Google and Sprint, and compete for top honors during final judging in early May.

A companion post to the The Patch Effect, Part 1, this installment reports directly on the experiences of hyperlocal news website operators. Ten editors from the states of California, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Virginia, and New York were interviewed at the close of 2010. The goal was to collect a representative sample of local sites from across the country, and also to focus on towns in which Patch was operating. Tram Whitehurst, Missouri School of Journalism master’s program graduate, working with RJI Fellow Lisa Skube, sums up what we learned.