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Innovation in Focus
Innovation in Focus, which helps newsrooms navigate the numerous new emerging technologies and storytelling techniques, is a finalist for a 2018 Editor & Publisher EPPY Award.
RJI video series on innovation is a finalist for EPPY Award
October 19, 2018 -
Innovation in Focus
We spoke with one of the original creators of the ProPublica Election Databot.
Bots: Meet the ProPublica Election Databot
October 18, 2018 -
RJI Fellow is building tools for producing documentary journalism
RJI Fellow Jarrad Henderson believes on-demand documentary journalism content for platforms such as Netflix and Hulu holds gold — in new money and in audiences — for the news industry.
October 18, 2018 -
Trusting News
Trusting News, a project intended to empower journalists to earn consumers’ trust, is adding research and training support from a partnership with the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Trusting News project expands research and training through University of Georgia partnership
October 11, 2018 -
Innovation in Focus
We used an election databot to lead us to a story about ad numbers from two local politicians.
Bots: Helping journalists find the story
October 9, 2018 -
RJI seeks newsroom partners for millennial-driven innovative projects
With shrinking newsrooms and tight budgets, it can be a challenge to come up with fresh ideas or enough hands to work on all the innovative projects your newsroom thinks up.
October 4, 2018 -
Competitors build ‘news hardware’ for the home
How many computers did you use before 8 a.m.? Researchers call this "ubiquitous computing," when computer chips, screens and connectivity are so established in our everyday routines that we cease to conceive of the individual products as being computers.
October 3, 2018 -
Eight takeaways for newsrooms to integrate augmented, virtual or mixed reality into the workplace
RJI invited five journalists from across the globe to participate in a two-day discussion around immersive video storytelling, Sept. 17–18. They came to teach, test and try the newest in technology surrounding augmented, virtual and mixed reality.
October 3, 2018 -
Post
In Episode Two, Post covers four stories involving data journalism in newspapers and online outlets including the Washington Post, Houston Chronicle, Star Tribune (Minneapolis), ProPublica, and Education Week.
Post Episode 2: Data journalists investigate school shootings and sexual assault cases
September 25, 2018 -
Seven lessons for immersive storytellers from the RJI Innovation Series
Creating content for the leading edge of the immersive video world — virtual reality, augmented reality, 360-degree — can be challenging for many newsrooms both in terms of how to master the technology and what projects to try it on.
September 24, 2018 -
Futurecasting: A way to grow revenue and broader market opportunities for news companies
It’s easy to think there’s not much time to consider the future beyond a year, especially since so much of today’s career and job duties are about the now.
September 24, 2018 -
Post
Raycom Media and partners are highlighting the work of investigative journalists while making the reporting process more transparent to audiences with a new show “Post.”
New investigative journalism review show shines light on reporting process
September 19, 2018 -
Newspaper adds a sunset to searching police public records
The Southeast Missourian announced a policy to block search engines from court and police public records and subsequent articles after six years.
September 14, 2018 -
Immersive technology event brings industry professionals to Missouri classrooms
Rather than just hearing case studies about what newsrooms are doing with immersive technologies, University of Missouri students will get to interact with professionals in the classroom during an upcoming event.
September 13, 2018 -
Development challenge focuses on ‘Better news for the smart home’
As the internet of things technology marches forward, college students who participate in this year’s RJI Student Competition will be challenged to develop products to help improve lives in smart homes through news delivery.
September 11, 2018
Donald W. Reynolds