RJI in the News

Reynolds Fellow Joy Mayer talks community engagement in the summer 2011 "Neiman Reports."

Journalists, students, educators and community members came together over three days to design, build and pitch their ideas for a journalism innovation — be it technology, content, platform, delivery, audience or other arena. Reynolds Fellow Bill Densmore and other Create or Die 2 attendees share their thoughts on the conference.

The new business model for news and journalism is all about building communities, not audiences.

In April 2010, The World Company, a family-owned news organization in Lawrence, Kansas (population 88,000), launched WellCommons, created to be the community's health site. While it's difficult to determine the "first" in anything digital, WellCommons is certainly among the pioneers in marrying journalism and social media—and making it work for reporters and citizens alike.

Our sense of what a CMS should do is maturing. To find out more, Matt Thompson talked with three people who’ve all had integral roles in CMS development at multiple news organizations, two of whom he worked with as editorial product manager for Project Argo.

The new online interactive tool has been developed to crunch and download data from the next series of census data releases this summer.

Nearly half the publishers of small dailies contacted in a recent University of Missouri survey have begun charging for online content.

In more than 300 phone interviews with publishers of daily U.S. newspapers, 46 percent of publishers of daily newspapers under 25,000 circulation now require payment for at least some of their online content. Among newspapers with greater than 25,000 circulation, 24 percent now charge.

Roger Fidler of the Reynolds Journalist Institute presented his latest survey results Tuesday as part of a webinar hosted by the American Society of News Editors. His research shows the iPad will be the preferred reading device in the future.

Nearly half the publishers of small dailies have begun charging for online content, according to a survey from the Reynolds Journalism Institue / University of Missouri, "The Push to Paid: Attitudes of Publishers towards Paid Content."

Paid digital content strategies generally work best in niche markets—and small newspapers may be one relatively viable niche, according to new research from the Reynolds Journalism Institute...

In more than 300 phone interviews with publishers at a random sample of US daily newspapers, RJI found that 46% of dailies with circulation under 25,000 now require payment for at least some of their digital content. For dailies with circulation greater than 25,000, only 24% now charge.

Reynolds Fellow Matt Thompson and other journalists share ideas on how to drive traffic to your website.

Fellows David Cohn and Bill Densmore share their methods for making sure journalism gets paid.

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.

Randall Smith recalls how a conversation with David Cohn, founder and director of SF-LA focused Spot.us, led to the spark for a new business journalism course.

After the disaster in Joplin, Mo., Jen Reeves and NBC affiliate KOMU turned to Facebook to obtain and share information with the local community. Fans are using the page now to share news, photos, videos, information on relief efforts, and in general, to connect with each other in a time of crisis.

The Newspaper Archive Summit met at the Reynolds Journalism Institute in April to discuss how to preserve newspaper archives for the future. One challenge librarians are facing is changes in technology. The software used to archive now, might not be around in five years. Conference attendees discussed this and many other issues.

Many have asked if the iPad and other tablets will save the print industry. While it's too soon to tell what will happen to the print industry, we can measure how mobile media is affecting us.

A device "revolutionary and magical" by presenting the iPad January 27, 2010, Apple has not hesitated to use big words. A year after its launch on April 3 has the famous touch pad has kept its promises?

A survey of small and mid-sized newspapers conducted by the Reynolds Journalism Institute reveal thoughts on the success of pay models and which papers might use them in the future. The results were released as part of RJInnovation Week.