
Victor Hernandez
2015-2016 Reynolds Fellow
Nonresidential fellow
Reynolds Journalism Institute
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Member ID: 620
Group Title: Content providers
Join Date: June 13, 2015
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Last Visit: December 31, 1969
Last Activity: December 31, 1969
Total Entries: 11
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About Victor Hernandez
Victor Hernandez has developed a reputation for infusing traditional journalism leadership with new media applications. Hernandez is currently the director of media Innovation at Banjo, a technology startup specializing in event detection used everyday by thousands of journalists. In 2015-16 he concluded an academic fellowship with the Reynolds Journalism Institute that focused on the impact of the Apple Watch and news audiences.
Prior to Banjo, Hernandez spent 12 years at CNN working extensively within the organization’s news editorial leadership ranks and product technology areas. He most recently served as the company’s ‘News Futurist,’ and was charged with shaping new media strategies against CNN’s journalistic objectives and organizational priorities. Hernandez also served as CNN’s director of national coverage, where he oversaw the network’s domestic news gathering operations including the managing of strategic response to breaking news and in-depth coverage. Prior to CNN, he spent several years helping lead local NBC broadcast stations in California, where he is originally from.
Victor Hernandez devoted eight months to exploring the impact of wearable technology on newsrooms as a 2015-2016 RJI Fellow.
Stories about Victor Hernandez
Revenue Models That Work
Old guard, new models
October 25, 2017Distribution: What do you really own? What do you really want?
Victor Hernandez: 50 things we learned at RJI-Distribution
March 29, 2017Apple Watch latest weapon in breaking-news wars
April 14, 2016The Collaboration Culture Symposium
Unholy alliances, superheroes and the ‘drunken walk’
March 25, 2016The Collaboration Culture Symposium
Victor Hernandez: 50 Things We Learned From the Collaboration Culture Sympsium
March 22, 2016RJI in the news
Five Answers with Victor Hernandez, Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow
December 24, 2015Millennials sound off on wearables and news consumption
December 2, 2015RJI in the news
Wearable technology brings the rise of ‘glance journalism’
November 24, 2015Alphabet-soup roundup of fall industry events, part one
October 20, 2015Observations from the wrists of Millennials
October 16, 2015RJI in the news
Banjo Appoints Victor Hernandez to Director of Media Innovation
September 8, 2015RJI announces its 2015-2016 class of fellows
May 5, 2015Dissecting Engagement
Victor Hernandez, futurist: Dissecting Engagement 2015: What did we learn?
April 8, 2015Mizzou Takes Mobile-First Training Approach
July 16, 2014Futures Lab Update
Futures Lab update #60: CNNx app, and some social media management tools
May 21, 2014Mobile First
Victor Hernandez: Small screen, big picture: Making sense of rapidly evolving mobile trends
April 7, 2014
Victor Hernandez's fellowship project
Victor Hernandez will devote eight months to exploring the impact of wearable technology on newsrooms as a 2015-2016 nonresidential fellow at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. His research is intended to lay a foundation for future testing and experimentation. Hernandez plans to partner with local and national news organizations to experiment with the technology and study potential journalistic applications.
The goal of the partnerships is to arrive at a reasonable consensus regarding effective features and applications for journalism, illustrate effective use case examples, gather critical user feedback on suggested application and workflow improvements, and identify any hardware/software opportunities not yet available, Hernandez says. Hernandez will also seek help from faculty members and students at the Missouri School of Journalism in his testing and research.
He sees the exploration process as an opportunity to share feedback and suggestions with smartwatch developers.
During the fellowship Hernandez and his team will be developing what he’s calling a wearables playbook, with recommended equipment, best practices, approaches to workflow, recommendations for future technology, and case studies.
Victor Hernandez fellowship project 2015–2016
October 12, 2015
The Collaboration Culture Symposium
Collaboration Culture day 2 Storify by Victor Hernandez
March 22, 2016The Collaboration Culture Symposium
Collaboration Culture day 1 Storify by Victor Hernandez
March 22, 2016Students to the rescue: The wearables project is in full swing
October 16, 2015The Apple Watch and newsrooms: Novelty or necessity?
August 5, 2015Dissecting Engagement
Dissecting Engagement — Day 2
March 31, 2015Dissecting Engagement
Dissecting Engagement — Day 1
March 31, 2015