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Futures Lab Video #40: News Tailored for Mobile Platforms
Reporting by Reuben Stern, Olga Kyle, Laura Davison, and Teddy Nykiel. This week the RJI Futures Lab brings you three examples of how news is being re-engineered for people on the go. PART 1: Circa The...
View ArticleDaily Must Reads, May 12, 2014
1. Saving community newspapers? Don’t start with layoffs (Jim Bach / American Journalism Review) 2. FCC won’t let firms segregate web traffic into fast, slow lanes (Gautham Nagesh / Wall Street...
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Mediatwits #123: NPR Regroups as Terrestrial Radio Evolves
The terrestrial radio business has been forced to adapt once again as more people get their audio content online, via streaming services or satellite radio. Podcasts, streaming embeds and even YouTube...
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Futures Lab Update #71: Digital Strategy at New York Public Radio
This week we get an inside look at one media organization’s successful digital strategy. New York Public Radio, which operates WNYC in New York City, is among the leading innovators in the public media...
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Mediatwits #134: Podcasts Rise Again, This Time with Profits
Podcasting is quickly becoming a breeding ground for inventive content creators and radio producers striking out on their own. The medium has ebbed and flowed in popularity and presumed viability since...
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Bringing StoryCorps to the World: A Q&A With Founder Dave Isay
StoryCorps, the initiative that helps give people the opportunity to record, share, and preserve their own personal stories, has been around since 2003. What started out as just an idea and experiment...
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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...
View ArticleDigitalEd: How to Start a Podcast
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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