RJInnovation Week Videos
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Monday, April 23
KOMU's Sarah Hill, Jen Reeves, and Amy Wood will lead a discussion with interactive newscasters and consultants from the BBC and TV stations in Phoenix, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Reno using social networks to engage their communities.
RJI Print & Graphics Editor Reuben Stern explained how RJI has helped Illinois Public Media have moved forward with multi-platform programming and with building an innovative website to engage the audience in addressing community needs.
For journalism entrepreneurs and innovators, social media has provided a new and exciting way to connect and find information. Janet Coats, co-founder of consultancy company Coats2Coats, as she discussed findings from her latest initiative, the Emerging Networks Project. Janet, along with project partner Ryanne Dolan, explored the value of using individual networks‹networks that organize around a particular topic or problem and provide learning circles for journalists. The two shared some of their most recent learnings, focusing on networks that enable journalism innovators to connect.
Does your newsroom want a relationship with your community that includes shared expertise, shared perspectives and maybe even shared ownership? The responsibility for that begins with individual journalists and the invitations they issue. How specifically are newsrooms large and small going after the kinds of interactions they most value? Joy Mayer, former Reynolds Fellow leads this discussion.
Tuesday, April 24
Former Reynolds Fellow Mike Fancher moderated this discussion with insights from Mark Jurkowitz and Tom Rosenstiel (via Skype) of the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ).
Jim Spencer, president & founder of multi-source Newsy, expanded upon recent Pew Research to illuminate industry adaptation to news for multiple platforms.
Cinnamon Melchor, user experience director of AKQA, discussed her work with client Delta and how she helped them make the digital transformation with their mobile app.
Wednesday, April 25
Beth Polish, Senior Vice-President, Hearst Corporate Innovation and RJI Futures Lab Director Mike McKean announced the winners of the 5th annual competition where teams of journalism, business and computer science students develop technology solutions to real world media challenges. This year the finalist teams have been developing new revenue opportunities for Hearst newspaper and television web sites based on advertising and site analytics.
Prof. Rhonda Prast and her students presented iPad apps they've produced for area publishers, including Vox 5, The Missouri Review and Mizzou Magazine using Bonnier's Mag+ content management system. RJI provides financial support for the magazine app project.
Students from four separate journalism courses have been reporting stories with mobile phones, software and accessories to extend the work of 2011 Reynolds
Fellow Will Sullivan. Watch examples of their work and listen to their reflections on best practices for mobile journalism.
Computer science and journalism students shared two of the iOS and Android apps they've developed this semester in an RJI-supported mobile development class. The first app supports a new business directory and couponing service of the Columbia Daily Tribune. The second provides real-time data analysis for cattle farmers and ranchers who lose millions of dollars each year to heat stress on their animals.
Last year, IT capstone students built an underwater robot! Watch the amazing project they showed off at RJI Innovation Week 2012!
Students from each journalism specialty have worked all year on in-depth, online reporting about mental health issues in mid-Missouri. They documented the process of identifying story ideas and sources and share what they've learned about multimedia journalism.
A team of convergence capstone students designed the user interface for a system that can manage massive amounts of website commenting in real time. RJI is working with MU computer scientist Ryanne Dolan to test his new tool. It allows users to highlight and track comments and helps newsroom managers monitor trending and engaging topics.
Matching local businesses to the most appropriate news products to improve results for both
Murali K. Mantrala
Vamsi Kanuri
RJI's Roger Fidler
Thursday, April 26
Global updates from Jim Townsend of Classified Intelligence Report
Reynolds Fellow Peter Meng shared the experiences, research and final results of his entrepreneurial project and product, adFreeq - a system to monetize streaming online classifieds.
Nationally known gadget guru Greg Harper and J-School alum Mike Wheeler did a show and tell connecting the best and worst of yesterday's devices and gadgets with the latest new tech toys hitting the marketplace. Watch what could disrupt how we tell stories, how consumers might buy things at retail, and discover their media content.
Keith Politte, RJI
Former Reynolds Fellow, Stephanie Padgett
Columbia Daily Tribune's Andy Waters discussed their newest iPad app launched using this new, adaptable technology.
Friday, April 27
What is the best way – from both a financial and content standpoint – to use AP's substantial video archives? Entrepreneur: Jim Kennedy, senior vice president, strategy, Associated Press. Professor: Amy McCombs, Lee Hills Chair in Free Press Studies.
Invent a revenue model that will support and sustain an online
publisher that has unmasked the costs of hundreds of common health
procedures/surgeries around the country. Entrepreneur: Jeanne Pinder, former New York Times editor and founder. Professor: Richard Johnson, Emma S. Hibbs/Frederick C. Middlebush Chair in Entrepreneurship and Professor of Management.
Propose a commercial and sustaining revenue stream for a public
radio start-up that focuses its content on food, fuel and field.
Entrepreneur: Donna Vestal, founding editor. Professor: Ton Stam.
Put together a business and content plan to launch a new, statewide online business daily. Entrepreneur: Randall Smith, founder and Missouri professor.
Orlando Sentinel Editor Mark Russell will moderate a panel discussion with Major Garrett, White House correspondent for National Journal; Jake Wagman, political reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Darrel Rowland, public affairs editor of the Columbus (OH) Dispatch; and Rochelle Riley, a columnist at the Detroit Free Press.
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