The UNC School of Media and Journalism and Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media welcome Melody Kramer to theCarolina Data Desk team. She is the first Reese News Lab Fellow helping local media outlets embrace and utilize data to create sustainable business models. Kramer currently leads audience growth and development for the Wikimedia Read more…
If you hop onto Twitter at any given time, you can find someone writing about media innovation, whether it’s about a new technology (chatbots) or a different business model (micropayments). These are both important changes to the media and journalism industries–but are they actually innovative? Innovative isn’t the same as new. To Read more…
Knight Foundation invests $3 million to launch new research center.
The data team wades through hypotheticals in search of customer feedback.
Each experience at the Reese News Lab contains a hidden lesson.
The STEMwire summer staff reflect on their effort to create conversation around STEM using a digital, collaborative approach.
Annie Daniel, a Reese News Lab intern from Matthews, N.C., was one of 20 students chosen to participate in the student newsroom for the Online News Association (ONA) conference Oct. 17-20 in Atlanta. Daniel will help provide intensive coverage of the ONA13 conference. She was chosen from more than 100 applications. For Read more…
The second screen is a new and exciting place for the media. Everyone is scrambling to figure how to best utilize it and engage users there. Research shows that a growing number of people are using multiple screens at once. The entertainment industry has latched onto this idea. Movies, television Read more…