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Join us for an OTT journey. All are welcome!
Are we there yet? Remember that line from the back seat in the days before iPads, earphones and earbuds? The road-trip to the future of local television stretches for miles.
July 23, 2019 -
POY judging event helps visual storyteller on her journey to tell her story of healing
Attending this year’s Picture of the Year judging, which took place in February, helped POY’s inaugural Rising Star Scholarship recipient Rosem Morton better understand how pictures are organized into stories.
July 22, 2019 -
Innovation in Focus
Red Clay Media shares how they’ve conquered what many newsrooms are still struggling with — making money with video content.
Video as revenue: Start with listening
July 11, 2019 -
Stacey Woelfel is RJI’s new drone director
Stacey Woelfel, a professor at the Missouri School of Journalism and the director of the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism, will be adding some new oversight duties to his portfolio as RJI’s new Director of Aerial Journalism.
July 10, 2019 -
Strategic campaign structure helps news organizations grow revenue, partners and audience
Campaigns can help news organizations build revenue through sponsorships, grow general brand awareness and cultivate a specific niche audience. Earlier this summer, Ebony Reed shared tips on how to craft a strategic sponsorship campaign.
July 8, 2019 -
Innovation in Focus
In a small town with slightly more than 100,000 people, known for its annual rose festival, news site, The Tyler Loop, is growing a membership model with events and a newsletter to collaborate, not compete with other local news organizations.
The Tyler Loop: Growing membership with events and newsletters
July 1, 2019 -
Post
In Episode 11, Post discusses coverage of immigration issues with several reporters who have worked on groundbreaking stories with seldom-told narratives.
Post Episode 11: Reporters discuss covering different aspects of immigration
June 27, 2019 -
How to launch an Info District
Local news organizations are closing or struggling to stay afloat, thus dampening the ability of residents to participate effectively in their communities. Simon Galperin is leading the effort to prototype a new form of funding.
June 26, 2019 -
Listening to the audience is key to improving immersive 360/VR experiences
When Thomas Seymat started his residential fellowship, he wanted to investigate how 360/VR content creators could better put the audience at the center of the production process so that immersive journalism may reach its full potential.
June 17, 2019 -
Innovation in Focus
The Colorado Sun shares their multiple revenue streams, lessons learned and where they're headed next.
Delivering news onto a digital porch
June 17, 2019 -
Houston Chronicle, RJI partner to keep chemical company data site available for journalists
A resource that helped The Houston Chronicle shed light on chemical disasters and facilities posing the greatest potential harm to the public, in the event of an emergency, got a new lease on life.
June 12, 2019 -
RJI Student Innovation Fellow takes talents to ABC News ahead of 2020 presidential primaries
This fall, ABC News’ Washington Bureau will benefit from the “great ideas and skillset” of digitally-minded Missouri School of Journalism graduate Hope Howard, a 2019 RJI Student Innovation Fellow.
June 11, 2019 -
Innovation in Focus
This summer, the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute’s Innovation In Focus web series will take a look at the startup and growing pains of a handful of news organizations’ new efforts to raise revenue.
A revenue reminder to start the summer
June 10, 2019 -
Rural teens seek (but rarely find) themselves in local news coverage
There is a heightened interest in what goes on in the heads and hearts of modern teenagers, particularly by legacy media. But teenagers from rural communities are not often factored into mainstream Gen Z coverage.
June 6, 2019 -
Why El Tímpano launched a text-message reporting pilot
Pasa La Voz was designed to be a participatory local news service providing empowering, local information to Oakland’s Latino immigrant community through text messages.
June 5, 2019
Donald W. Reynolds