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He Had It Coming: How archives keep giving, almost a century later
When Marianne Mather visited the archives in the Chicago Tribune, what she found inspired her to co-author a book, “He Had It Coming: Four Murderous Women and the Reporter Who Immortalized Their Stories”
April 2, 2020 -
RJI’s 2020 student innovation winner advances to world finals in Microsoft’s 2020 Imagine Cup
The winner of RJI’s 2020 student innovation competition, Team Deeptector, has advanced to the world finals in Microsoft’s 2020 Imagine Cup
April 2, 2020 -
A good failure: Changing our newsletter promos
At the Columbia Missourian, we tried — yet failed — to get a dramatic bump in newsletter subscriptions. Will our tactics work for you?
April 1, 2020 -
Watch: RJI and IRE co-host “Finding COVID-19 data and responsible context” panel April 3
Journalists are invited to attend the virtual event “Finding COVID-19 data and responsible context,” 11 a.m. CST Friday, April 3 via Zoom.
March 31, 2020 -
Unused funds from canceled Women in Journalism Workshop go to help photojournalists in need
To lessen the financial burden created by the coronavirus, Women Photograph has set up an emergency fund to help women and non-binary individuals who work as freelance photojournalists.
March 31, 2020 -
What’s Working
If service journalism has a time to shine, it's during a crisis. When things are going wrong, people need good, specific information to deal with the situation.
What’s Working: The coronavirus crisis has lessons for us about service journalism
March 31, 2020 -
Newsroom Notes
It’s Friday morning and we are closing in on our first week of “new normal” at KOMU. I am blessed that my “new normal” is only disrupting my intended trips home.
Newsroom Notes: The New Normal
March 27, 2020 -
The three kinds of code you write in the newsroom
And other takeaways from NICAR 2020
March 25, 2020 -
RJI’s 2020–2021 fellows named
The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute has awarded seven fellowships for the 2020–21 academic year for projects that address the increasing challenges in covering climate change, unpublishing, harassment of marginalized journalists and more.
March 24, 2020 -
Help your readers: Organize the COVID news flood with a special newsletter
The rapid COVID-19 developments and the almost-immediate dissemination of often less-than reliable information on social media challenged the Columbia Missourian’s efforts to ensure people could easily access our accurate and reliable reporting.
March 23, 2020 -
Newsroom Notes
How do you run a newsroom through these unusual times? We’re providing a first-hand view from an industry veteran who agreed to lead the KOMU newsroom during a faculty search process—just as the Covid-19 crisis began unfolding.
Newsroom Notes: A unique view at a unique time
March 23, 2020 -
Innovation in Focus
Nick Michael, an Editor at NPR Video, shares his experiences with immersive audio
Binaural audio: Q&A with Nick Michael
March 23, 2020 -
7 hard-to-get drone visuals you can get during the COVID-19 pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has newsrooms across the country and the world scrambling to deliver vital information, but newsroom drone pilots may feel a little left out of the action as this story has put people indoors, carrying the story there with them.
March 20, 2020 -
Working from home in the age of pandemic
In a normal week many of us might work from home for a day or an afternoon or an evening. But this was not a normal week, nor will be next week or the week after.
March 19, 2020 -
Records request stalling? Scrape their site!
Garrison had been waiting for an Indiana state agency to respond to his open records request. He knew the data existed and, if he could just get a full copy of it, he could finally answer a question that had bugged him for over a year.
March 18, 2020
Donald W. Reynolds