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Reese News Lab | Join the Reese News Lab
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UNC School of Media and Journalism. Re]search, [re]define, [re]invent. Join the Reese News Lab. We are hiring for a Lecturer/Director of the Reese News Lab at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Media and Journalism. The application review period starts on March 21, and the target start date is July 1. Click here. Capitol Hound is hiring! Updating the Capitol Hound database by scheduling, recording, and editing audio from legislative meetings. Working with third party services to prepare and create transcripts.
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Reese News Lab | About
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UNC School of Media and Journalism. Re]search, [re]define, [re]invent. Welcome to the Reese News Lab, an experimental media and research project based at the School of Media and Journalism. At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Reese News Lab focuses on developing and testing new ideas for the media industry in the form of a pre-startup. Our team of students researches ideas for media products by answering three questions: Can it be done? Does anyone actually need this? Chapel Hill, NC.
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Reese News Lab | The legacy of Reese Felts
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UNC School of Media and Journalism. Re]search, [re]define, [re]invent. The legacy of Reese Felts. After graduating from UNC in 1952, Reese Felts spent much of his career with WSJS television (now WXII) in Winston-Salem. The Reese News Lab, a major experimental media entrepreneurship initiative at UNC’s School of Media and Journalism,. Is funded by a $4.1 million gift from the estate of alumnus Reese Felts. The school transformed one of its classrooms into the Reese News Lab, where students develop and te...
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Reese News Lab | A cooking show for today
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UNC School of Media and Journalism. Re]search, [re]define, [re]invent. A cooking show for today. A PBS station in Austin, Texas, dreamed up an idea for a show that would air not on television, but on YouTube. Now Hiring: Executive Director for Reese News Lab. We are hiring for a Lecturer/ Director of the Reese News Lab at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Media and Journalism. Reese News Lab’s latest project, Campaign Hound, tracks planned public speeches by political candidates. How to test a product idea.
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Reese News Lab | Spring 2016 Staff
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UNC School of Media and Journalism. Re]search, [re]define, [re]invent. BA Mass Communication, Campbell University. MBA, Campbell University. John Clark has directed the Reese News Lab since July 2011 and leads courses in entrepreneurship for the School of Media and Journalism as well as UNC’s minor in entrepreneurship program. Clark has extensive experience as a leader, programmer, research and development manager and startup founder. BA Environmental Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill. Sara Peach is a journalist ...
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Reese News Lab | Reese News Lab wins Knight News Challenge
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UNC School of Media and Journalism. Re]search, [re]define, [re]invent. Reese News Lab wins Knight News Challenge. By Reese News Lab Staff. CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The Reese News Lab in the UNC School of Media and Journalism has been awarded $150,000 as part of the Knight News Challenge on Elections for Campaign Hound. A searchable archive and alert service that enables users to monitor political speeches remotely. Associate Director Sara Peach said news organizations are always looking for tools to improve t...
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Reese News Lab | Awards & Achievements
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UNC School of Media and Journalism. Re]search, [re]define, [re]invent. Awards & Achievements. Reese News Lab wins $150,000 Knight News Challenge on elections. Legal Stats wins $5,000 Jason Norris Award in Entrepreneurship. Legal Stats wins third place at Carolina Challenge. Lab directors John Clark and Sara Peach win $50,000 C. Felix Harvey Award for Institutional Priorities. Reese News Lab students win $3,500 grant for environmental reporting. Reese News Lab wins $35,000 Knight Foundation prototype grant.
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Reese News Lab | Building something big happens slowly
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UNC School of Media and Journalism. Re]search, [re]define, [re]invent. Building something big happens slowly. You can’t build Rome in a day. But not everything falls perfectly into place. Throughout the summer, my confidence that our product, now called Digidocket. Gregoire and her team practice for Pitch Day. Photo by Samantha Harrington. How could we think of those millions of pieces of paper that needed to be scanned in more manageable terms? The answer: we chunked the information into smaller units&#...
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Reese News Lab | Reese News Lab launches Campaign Hound to track upcoming campaign speeches
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UNC School of Media and Journalism. Re]search, [re]define, [re]invent. Reese News Lab launches Campaign Hound to track upcoming campaign speeches. The Lab releases its latest service, Campaign Hound, the sister project to Capitol Hound. Innovation and sustainability in community journalism focus of new $4 million UNC-Chapel Hill School of Media and Journalism initiative. Knight Foundation invests $3 million to launch new research center. Reese News Lab wins Knight News Challenge. At Reese News Lab’...
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Reese News Lab | Build before you build: why prototyping is important
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UNC School of Media and Journalism. Re]search, [re]define, [re]invent. Build before you build: why prototyping is important. To be honest, I struggle with the principle of not building the product during my time at Reese News Lab. Ideas change. The customer wants something valuable, not just something I think is cool. And building takes time and energy I get it. But at times, I wish I were an excellent programmer, or even better: I wish I had Jarvis. Sign in with Twitter. Sign in with Facebook.
