Assembling social posts with Roundabout 4/10/17

By the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute
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Roundabout is a tool for creating customized, continually updated feeds of social media content from multiple accounts and platforms. The resulting collection of posts can be embedded within a webpage, enabling online viewers to see the grouped social media content all in one place. We find out how it works from CEO Rogier Visser.

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Community Impact Newspaper 3/27/17

By the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute
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Community Impact Newspaper is a hyperlocal news company that delivers a free monthly newspaper to every household in the geographic areas it covers. The company uses revenue generated from advertisements to serve 22 communities across Texas. John Garrett, founder and CEO, explains what makes Community Impact’s targeted advertising model unique.

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Mobile studio and teleprompter app Bigvu 3/20/17

By the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute
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Bigvu is an app designed to be a mobile studio for video journalists in the field. It combines a teleprompter with a platform for recording, managing and publishing the videos.

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Making video interactive with Adways 2/21/17

By the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute
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Adways is a new tool for turning online video into an interactive experience that works across multiple platforms. Adways General Manager Fabrice Jaeger explains how news organizations might use this technology.

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Journalism 360, an immersive storytelling initiative 2/13/17

By the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute
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Journalism 360 is an initiative to help journalists experiment with immersive storytelling through events, training, grants, Medium posts and Google Hangouts. The effort aims to connect journalists and build a community around 360 video and augmented and virtual reality for news.

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Building interactive timelines with sponsored content from Tline 2/6/17

By the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute
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Tline is a new tool for creating interactive timelines that brings together publishers and advertisers. The timelines include sponsored advertisements and can be shared on social media or embedded on a site. Publishers have control over which ads are displayed on their timelines and receive a 50 percent share of the revenue.

The Reported.ly team was small and spread out across the globe, which meant they relied on many digital and social tools. Before they said goodbye, the staff compiled a list of some of the tools they found most useful. Here's a look at six of their favorites.

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6 favorite digital tools from Reported.ly 1/31/17

By the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute
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Reported.ly was a news operation that covered breaking news primarily on social and distributed platforms. It was also the first place many people turned to verify developing stories. But in August, its parent company, First Look Media, pulled funding and shut down the site.

The Reported.ly team was small and spread out across the globe, which meant they relied on many digital and social tools. Before they said goodbye, the staff compiled a list of some of the tools they found most useful. We take a look at six of their favorites.

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Serif, a new kind of content management system from The Dallas Morning News 1/24/17

By the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute
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Serif is a new, reporter-friendly content management system developed by The Dallas Morning News that prioritizes mobile and digital content. Chris Williams, senior director of digital portfolio at The Dallas Morning News, explains its features and how it's changed things up at The Dallas Morning News.

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NowThis innovations: Chatbots and Facebook Live 12/20/16

By the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute
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NowThis has been a pioneer in delivering video news exclusively on social platforms, and it grew quickly thanks to an ability to find new ways to reach young audiences. Now the company is pushing forward with technologies like chatbots and Facebook Live.

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Shortcut from This American Life 12/13/16

By the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute
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A new tool called Shortcut from This American Life allows listeners to share clips from episodes of the public radio show. Users can select text from episode transcripts, which the app turns into short videos that can be downloaded or posted to social media.

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