Student Competitions

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.

Hearst Corporation’s Innovation group, The University of Missouri’s Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI), Adobe Systems Inc., Google, and Sprint today announced the winners of their student competition aimed at creating new media-related mobile apps using Google’s open-source Android mobile platform. The student team created a mobile game that gives players incentives to track, publish and share news.

The winners of the Reynolds Journalism Institute Hearst Student Competition were announced Thursday morning as part of this year’s RJI Student Innovator Showcase.

An iPhone app designed by a team of students for a contest at the University of Missouri at Columbia has helped lead the institution to rewrite its intellectual-property policies.

Fidler says as news apps become more available, consumers have indicated they’ll likely drop their paid subscriptions to the print edition. He says publishers will need to re-focus their advertising to create revenue. Fidler says the rich, multi-media format in which the ads could be displayed should entice consumers to view them, something publishers will have to convince advertisers is a good thing.

Representatives from Hearst will provide students with information on the Reynolds Journalism Institute's fourth annual student competition at a meeting Wednesday. Along with Hearst, RJI is partnering with Adobe, Google and Sprint to sponsor the contest.

In a contest to foster journalism innovation - or even help birth a new breed of journalist-programmer - the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri is bringing together journalism students with computer science, engineering and business students to create new apps for Google’s open-source Android mobile operating system.

It may not be possible to force innovation in journalism, but you may be able to guide it, starting with a little speed dating.

The University of Missouri’s push to commercialize more intellectual property bagged it a $100,000 grant from the Kansas City-based Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, one of the largest foundations in the country.

Hearst Corporation's Innovation group announced today that it is partnering with The University of Missouri's Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI), Adobe Systems Inc., Google, and Sprint Nextel to hold a student competition aimed at creating new journalism-focused mobile apps using Google's open-source Android mobile operating system.

MU announced Wednesday its students will now have the opportunity to receive complete ownership rights to anything they invent on campus. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City gave the UM system a $100,000 grant to further student entrepreneuring. The Kauffman Foundation awards universities to promote the commercialization of tecnologies developed at the university level.