Joy Mayer, Columbia Missourian: The “why” of engagement: Asking the right questions

Joy Mayer is the director of community outreach at the Columbia Missourian and an associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism. Her work focuses on the continually evolving notion of community engagement in journalism and on what it means to make the news more social. She was a 2010-2011 RJI Fellow at the Reynolds Journalism Institute, where she did a survey of 500 newspaper editors' views on engagement, held a seminar on measuring the success of engagement efforts, and published a newsroom discussion guide for community engagement. Mayer teaches classes in participatory journalism and has previously taught multimedia design and print design.