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RJI Futures Lab Update #104: Ideas for Resurfacing Archived Audio
This week we explore two examples of how archived audio content is being brought back to life. PART 1: NPR One National Public Radio’s NPR One app mixes older NPR stories with current news to provide...
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Thinking of Starting a Podcast? Read This First
Podcasts first popped up on my radar about 10 years ago, when the trend, fueled by RSS and file sharing technology, was just starting to boom. I loved the concept but couldn’t figure out how to create...
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Title: How to Start a Podcast Instructor: Meagan Francis, Podcast Creator, “Life, Listened” Network A beginner’s guide to audio podcasting Podcasts are having more than a moment – they’re in the middle...
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Tow Center’s Vanessa Quirk: Podcasts Not All About Profit
At the end of last year, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism released its “Guide to Podcasting,” a report researched and prepared by Tow Center fellow Vanessa Quirk. The guide delves into the history...
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The Inside Scoop on Battleflag.us, a Collaborative Multimedia Wonder
This piece was initially published on Storybench, a cookbook for digital storytelling. Storybench is a collaboration between Northeastern University’s Media Innovation program, a new graduate degree in...
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Radio Storytellers Are ‘Finding America’ With Hyper-Local News Experiments
What kind of impact is climate change having on Native American groups’ subsistence hunting in Alaska? What stories do Baltimore’s aging seniors have to tell about a place once known as Charm City? And...
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RJI Futures Lab #175: Shortcut from ‘This American Life’ Helps Listeners...
Reporting by Hailey Godburn. A new tool called Shortcut from This American Life allows listeners to share clips from episodes of This American Life. Users can select text from episode transcripts,...
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Arkansas Journalism Students Consider Ethics of News Coverage, Social Media...
Students hate group projects – that’s what I was told before my University of Arkansas journalism ethics class sought to study the role of media during the 2016 presidential general-election campaign....
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Women Take the Lead at Latin America’s Digital Media Startups
Women are taking a leadership role in the development of digital journalism in Latin America, according to a new study of 100 startups. The study, Inflection Point, by SembraMedia in partnership with...
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How a CPB Digital Program Boosted a Public Media Station’s Pledge Drive by 25%
What do you get when you cross a public media station’s work with a startup’s attitude? The Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s Digital Accelerator Project. The Project is an initiative to help...
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