by Renzo Downey | Mar 25, 2018 | Events
When Facebook acquired Oculus VR nearly four years ago, developers and the media were excited at the possibilities that the emerging technology could bring to storytelling. But the public’s excitement around virtual reality quickly dissipated. Now virtual reality is...
by Renzo Downey | Mar 22, 2018 | Events
Students at the Medill D.C. Bureau learned about the ways publications use email newsletters to reach readers in a direct and personalized way during a talk by New York Times Editor for Digital and Newsletters Elisabeth Goodridge (MSJ05) on March 7. Goodridge leads...
by Renzo Downey | Mar 20, 2018 | Events
Undergraduate students at the Medill D.C. Bureau attended two labs on online headline writing from Mark Smith, editor for mobile Web at The Washington Post. At the Post, Smith’s job is to implement a strategy to increase mobile web traffic. He said that the ratio of...
by Renzo Downey | Feb 20, 2018 | Events
WASHINGTON — The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Washington Program of the Medill School of Journalism co-hosted a screening Tuesday of a short documentary created by a Medill alumna about the psychological impact of deaths in the Philippines’ drug...
by Renzo Downey | Feb 6, 2018 | Events
WASHINGTON– The Medill Mentors Program brought students and alumni together at the Washington, D.C. bureau on Jan. 23, introducing Medill’s next generation of reporters to locals in the media and giving students an opportunity to discuss their journalism...