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At RJI, we’ve been working to improve how we share information with our readers.
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Challenge Accepted
Sharing election coverage online can feel like a huge task. That doesn’t mean digital strategy should go by the wayside. To reach a potentially untapped audience for election coverage, you have to strategize.
Challenge Accepted! How to optimize digital election coverage for engagement? Make it digestible
May 28, 2020 -
Innovation in Focus
5 tips to get started integrating your news content with voice activated devices
Voice delivered news: Tips and Tools
May 25, 2020 -
Challenge Accepted
What if people could control the way an audio story plays out while listening to it? Missouri School of Journalism students Slone Salerno, Vivian Wang, Elliot Bauman and Sarai Vega worked with RJI Fellow Michael Epstein to find out.
Challenge Accepted! Expandable audio journalism lets listeners take control
May 21, 2020 -
Newsroom Notes
When it comes to the global pandemic we find ourselves in, are you tired of hearing the quote attributed to Winston Churchill? “Never waste a good crisis.”
Newsroom Notes: The more things change, the more they stay the same?
May 19, 2020 -
Newsrooms gain support on innovative work during COVID-19 with RJI Student Innovation Fellowships
The coronavirus pandemic has presented numerous challenges to newsroom of all sizes. RJI hopes to do its part to keep moving forward innovation and new ideas with a summer version of its RJI Student Innovation Fellowships.
May 18, 2020 -
Innovation in Focus
Q&A on voice activated news with Remy Becher, Vice President for Product at the Economist
Voice delivered news: Remy Becher at the Economist
May 18, 2020 -
Challenge Accepted
Doesn’t every news organization want to engage a younger audience? Annie Le, Kyle McCubbin, Sidney Steele and Jacqueline Lemp teamed with 12 News, based in Phoenix, to better understand their younger audience base.
Challenge Accepted! How can a Phoenix TV station better engage with 18- to 24-year-olds?
May 14, 2020 -
Challenge Accepted
People are now well versed in accessing video meetings and live streams from home. These technologies can allow journalists to gain a new level of intimacy with their audience.
Challenge Accepted! How to host a Zoom party for your audience
May 11, 2020 -
Innovation in Focus
Integrating content with voice assistants is easier than ever
Voice delivered news: Innovation skill
May 11, 2020 -
Entrepreneurship and Media of the Future winner creates online learning platform for journalists
A University of Missouri student team, who came up with the idea to teach different journalistic skills through an online subscription-based learning platform, won the 11th annual Entrepreneurship and Media of the Future Symposium competition.
April 29, 2020 -
This algorithm is a photo editor for 2 decades of archived pictures
Edward McCain and Sean Goggins have an idea to implement a software assistant to create a set of filters that could identify images that won’t ever get used from those most likely to be published.
April 28, 2020 -
Innovation in Focus
We experimented with a few of the tools that journalists can use in public service journalism to help visualize and represent data
Tools for public service journalism: Tips and tricks for Glitch, MapBox and more
April 27, 2020 -
Neil Mara columns
As readers of The Charlotte Observer found out on a recent Sunday, the common story of how the city escaped major illness and death in the pandemic of 1918 had one big problem: It just wasn’t true.
Journalists uncover lessons from the 1918 pandemic useful in covering COVID-19
April 21, 2020 -
Newsroom communication in the time of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has newsroom managers facing an extraordinary moment in journalism — our entire profession forced to adjust on the fly to how it goes about its daily work.
April 20, 2020 -
Innovation in Focus
We spoke with Los Angeles Times’ Casey Miller, a data journalist who helps the organization track earthquakes, wildfires, and other disasters through automated tools like Quakebot and Fire Map
Tools for public service journalism: Q&A with Casey Miller
April 20, 2020
Donald W. Reynolds