RJI in the News

Zite, a start-up that makes its debut today, is keenly aware, and has come up with an iPad app that offers personalized content based on the reader's Twitter activity, according to its founder.

Watch out, Flipboard. As of Wednesday, you have some serious competition: a free app called Zite that is constantly learning what you like to read on the iPad and creating a magazine finely tailored to your needs.

Imagine playing computer games while at work, with the full blessing of your boss. Sounds too good to be true? Not so.

This is where Serious Games – designed with the objective of solving a problem – come into play.

The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri has published a two-part series on AOL's foray into hyper-local journalism for which I was interviewed. Part I references the plagiarism issue from last September. Part II includes a series of observation on Patch and the state of hyper-local journalism in the United States where I am quoted several times.

Joy Mayer of the Reynolds Journalism Institute got some advice on cultivating online reader engagement from the Wall Street Journal’s (and formerly the Lab’s) Zach Seward, and the Lab’s Megan Garber reported on the results of some research into which stories are the most liked and shared on Facebook.

These entrepreneurial publishers are on the front lines of community journalism, and their perspective on corporate efforts such as Patch are valuable ones. That’s why Tram Whitehurst, a master’s graduate at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, has been collecting their views about the importance of very local news efforts and about how Patch fits into that ecosystem.

As iPad sightings become commonplace, and as the habits of early adopters are scrutinized for clues about the influence tablet technology will have on consumer choices, the news industry is wondering -- desperately and obsessively -- whether tablets will save newspapers and magazines, or just pound a few more nails into the coffin.

Tuesday afternoon, Cohn issued what he termed a “state of the Spot” report summarizing the site’s experience with 160 projects funded by 5,000 contributors. Along the way, Spot.us has partnered with 95 organizations, sometimes involving quite imaginative alliances, and has picked up seven journalism awards.

Colorado-based photographer James Chance won the inaugural PoYI/Reynolds Journalism Institute Emerging Vision Incentive award with his project documenting the intriguing cemetery-dwelling culture in Manila’s North Cemetery. These photographs truly speak from themselves, but here’s a snippet describing the project, in Chance’s own words:

We make much of our experiences, because our experiences make us. I’m reminded of this every day at Mizzou School of Journalism as I watch student journalists live the “Missouri Method,” an immersive learning approach to journalism education.

Spot.Us recently launched a new design, so this is an opportune time to write a "State of the Spot" post -- something we haven't done since the website was six months old. I hope to lay out how far we've come and what's on our plate and make a call to arms to the Spot.Us community and anyone else interested in the future of journalism.

I've always dreamed of a time when my community could come together with the help of our on-air and online collaboration. All it took was a blizzard to make it happen.

Mid-Missouri was hit with a blizzard-like storm that dumped 17.5 inches of snow into Columbia, Mo., and even more south of the city.

Judging has been completed in the newspaper section of the Pictures of the Year International competition run by the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute in the Fred W. Smith Forum at the Missouri School of Journalism. While the winning pictures have been chosen, the names of the winning photographers in most of the sections are still to come. POYi withholds the winner’s names and affiliations until after judging is complete so that the judges won’t be influenced in coming categories.

After Dr. Clyde Bentley experienced 3G cell phones in London in 2006, he knew it would completely change journalism.

The Daily Telegraph's senior sports photographer Gregg Porteous has claimed first prize in the sports feature category for the Reynolds Journalism institute prestigious photographic award.

Judging has been completed in the newspaper section of the Pictures of the Year International competition run by the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute in the Fred W. Smith Forum at the Missouri School of Journalism.

"If it's a good photograph you can see it very, very quickly," judge Mike Zerby said. "Really fine photography, part of the reason it is fine is because it is easily seen, assimilated and digested."

With its glossy touch screen and adaptable content, Apple's iPad is reviving longer-form reading, according to a recent report.

We asked a group of distinguished digiterati for their first impressions of The Daily, launched Wednesday by Rupert Murdoch, with a new subscription engine from Apple. Our experts responded by sharing their reflections on its Web-print hybrid design, interactive potential, and business model.