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Innovation in Focus
Tips on five tools we tried while creating social specific content for promotion of our video story.
Social Specific Content: Building for instagram, snapchat and more
November 12, 2018 -
Five tips for reconnecting with your community
How to engage with your community in a way that shows you care.
November 6, 2018 -
Rebranding for news organizations, how and why?
We speak with a marketing expert on how newsrooms can employ a third party to research their community and rebrand successfully.
November 6, 2018 -
Jeremy Merrill: ProPublica’s project crowdsourcing political ads on Facebook
After the 2016 presidential election, Facebook received a lot of criticism over a lack of transparency on its platform. ProPublica has been particularly persistent in its coverage of electioneering on the social media giant.
November 5, 2018 -
Innovation in Focus
We test different social specific content editors to promote a news feature video.
Social Specific Content: Promoting your stories differently
November 5, 2018 -
Post
In Episode 3, Post discusses elections and social media as well as long-term reporting on candidates. Media outlets featured include This American Life, 60 Minutes, ProPublica and Raycom stations, including WAVE and WFIE.
Post Episode 3: Social media playing behind-the-scenes role in elections
November 1, 2018 -
RJI: 10 years of innovating and more to come
The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute is celebrating 10 years of innovating and helping ensure that journalism has a long and bright future in the service of democracy. The institute’s doors opened in 2008.
October 31, 2018 -
Innovation in Focus
How to use the Facebook ad archive for projects and tips on what to think about before you start!
Bots: Tips and Tools
October 29, 2018 -
Info District dispatches
To pass an ordinance or petition for a referendum you need to lobby someone. The Community Information Cooperative’s 501(c)(3) incorporation means that no more than 20 percent of our budget can be spent on lobbying. At first, we saw this as a limitation.
Info District dispatch: On lobbying
October 24, 2018 -
RJI video series on innovation is a finalist for EPPY Award
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.
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
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