Stories by Jim Flink
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AI isn’t taking journalists’ jobs. It is making them smarter and more efficient
Utopian or dystopian? When it comes to artificial intelligence and machine learning, how journalists view the technology, and how willing they are to delve into the many layers it can empower, is the secret sauce in creating a better workplace.
April 9, 2019 -
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 -
The Collaboration Culture Symposium
A not-so-subtle theme kept cropping up this week at the Collaboration Culture Symposium (#rjicollab) at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute: a superhero theme.
Unholy alliances, superheroes and the ‘drunken walk’
March 25, 2016 -
Dissecting Engagement
Just days removed from an invigorating discussion on the state of engagement in media, Dissecting Engagement attendees are buzzing about strategic content deployment strategies necessary to win greater connectivity with users.
The five engagement changes your newsroom can adopt right now: #RJIEngaged
April 15, 2015 -
Mobile First
Just hours after wrapping up a very successful #rjimobilefirst event, the discussion continues.
Recapping #rjimobilefirst: Where are we on the path of mobile migration?
April 15, 2014 -
Updating the Missouri Method with rapid iteration, multi-platform delivery
What causes species to migrate? Inhospitable conditions? A yearning for home? A longing for greener pastures? In the case of multi-platform migration in news, it's quite possibly a combination of all three.
March 24, 2014 -
Missouri tests multi-platform storytelling across six newsrooms
Clutter. Chaos. Copious amounts of content. News organizations are struggling right now. Struggling to connect with users who are migrating to increasingly diverse and cluttered platforms. Struggling to migrate their staffs, sometimes chaotically, to distribute distinct, quality, multi-platform content to different and varied platforms.
February 24, 2014
Donald W. Reynolds