Reuben Stern
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Columbia, MO, United States
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Past articles by Reuben:
FL#188: Assembling social posts with Roundabout
What if all the content created for your social media streams also appeared together on your website? → Read More
FL#137: VR at the Associated Press and automated video with Viosk
How is the Associated Press enabling viewers to go inside an unfinished subway tunnel? And could text stories automatically turn into videos? → Read More
7 media behaviors of post-millennials
As part of its ongoing Conversations series, the New York Daily News Innovation Lab last week hosted a public discussion with two 14-year-old high schoolers to get a glimpse of how the next generation of media consumers goes about their digital lives. → Read More
Futures Lab Update #101: Combing Through Video and Images With Vhoto and Ditto
This week we see how two technologies automatically scan the content of video and images to deliver highlights and insights. PART 1: Vhoto Vhoto helps turn mobile video into bits of sharable content by automatically finding the key moments within the footage. → Read More
Futures Lab Update #100: Telling Stories With Satellite Imagery and Using Data for Breaking News
This week we see how satellite data can be used for storytelling, and we learn some ways that data reporting can improve breaking-news coverage. PART 1: Storytelling with satellite images The New York Times often incorporates satellite imagery into graphic presentations to tell far-flung stori... → Read More
Futures Lab Update #99: SXSW Interactive; Renting Tech; an App For Democracy
This week we offer a quick recap from the 2015 South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas. We also learn about a startup that enables anyone to try out the latest tech gadgets, and we hear how another startup is hoping to use mobile technology to transform democracy. PART 1: SXSWi 2015 Recap Intelligent robots, virtual reality, the Internet of Things, and the rise of a “maker… → Read More
Futures Lab Update #98: Ideas From Nonprofit News
This week we explore some of the ideas and opportunities emerging among nonprofit newsrooms, including The Center for Investigative Reporting, The Marshall Project, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune. Reporting by Katy Mersmann, Reuben Stern and Rachel Wise. PART 1: Partnerships Collaboration with other organizations is a key element of most nonprofit newsrooms, and it often enables them to go… → Read More
Futures Lab Update #97: Single-Story Apps and Virtual Reality Storytelling
This week we learn how The New York Times quickly morphed a viral story into a successful mobile app, and we see how Project Syria uses virtual reality to immerse the audience in the news. PART 1: Single-story apps Efforts to tailor content specifically for smartphones has given rise to freestanding mobile apps inspired by individual stories. As an example, The New York Times quickly created its… → Read More
Futures Lab Update #96: Tips For Mobile News Delivery, and Remixing With Trio
This week we get tips on what works when delivering news via mobile devices, and we check out a new app designed for remixing content. PART 1: Mobile insights As part of Al Jazeera’s Research & Development lab, the recently launched app AJ+ serves as an ongoing experiment in ways to deliver news via smartphones. David Cohn, former chief content officer at Circa and now executive producer at AJ+,… → Read More
Futures Lab Update #95: Digital Profiles via 360social; Behavioral Analytics via Trialfire
This week we look at a tool that reassembles scattered social media fragments and a code-free way to track behavior on individual Web pages. PART 1: 360social Built as a Web browser plugin, 360social could help reporters more quickly comb through someone’s digital trail across various social media platforms. We learn how the system works from founder Albert Dijkstra. Reporting by Tim Leible,… → Read More
Futures Lab Update #94: Measuring Impact and Finding New Audiences at CIR
This week we get an inside look at some innovative efforts by the Center for Investigative Reporting to expand the audience in unusual ways and to track the impact of the organization’s journalism out in the community. Reporting by Tatiana Darie, Reuben Stern and Rachel Wise. PART 1: Partnerships to reach new audiences Central to CIR’s ethos is collaboration and partnership with other… → Read More
Futures Lab Update #93: Tools From Twitter, and Limited Sharing via This.
This week we explore some of the tools offered by Twitter to help news organizations harness the platform, and we learn about a new social network called This., which hopes to encourage sharing of only high-quality content. <iframe src=https://www.youtube. → Read More
Futures Lab Update #91: How Mashable Attracts ‘the Connected Generation’
This week we visit Mashable’s New York City headquarters to find out how the staff stays on top of the fast-moving social conversation. Started as a tech news site in 2005, Mashable now delivers breaking news and other social media-friendly content tailored for what it calls “the Connected Generation,” attracting as many as 40 million unique visitors per month. → Read More
Futures Lab Update #90: Editing Viral Content; and Monitoring State Legislators
This week we learn about the work of viral content editors, and we see how public data can be pulled together to monitor the work of lawmakers. PART 1: Viral content editors With social sharing now <a href=https://gigaom. → Read More
Futures Lab Update #89: Video Apps From Fly Labs and Micropayments via Blendle
This week we look at a pair of mobile video apps with a streamlined interface and a micropayment system for news content that is already up and running in the Netherlands. → Read More
Futures Lab Update #88: Attracting Investment Capital and Reaching Young Local Readers
This week we find out why investors are bullish on online media startups, and we find out how the Philadelphia-based startup Billy Penn is producing local news coverage aimed at younger readers. <iframe src=//www.youtube. → Read More
Futures Lab Update #87: Automated Production, Live-Streamed UGC and Quality Video Storytelling
This week we explore some ideas for advancing journalistic video via automated production, live-streamed user-generated footage, and thoughtful storytelling. <iframe src=//www.youtube. → Read More
Futures Lab Update #86: Ideas for Election Night; How Social Shapes Breaking News
This week, we look at innovative election-night ideas from NPR and USA Today, and we see how social media tools have reshaped breaking news coverage at Mashable and The Weather Channel. <iframe src=//www.youtube. → Read More
Futures Lab update #84: Engagement Using Text Messages, and Corrections via Social Media
This week we learn about a platform for engaging with audiences via text messages, and we explore how to handle corrections to social media posts. PART 1: Groundsource A new platform called Groundsource seeks to help newsrooms interact with their communities outside the confines of smartphones and social media, instead relying on more basic text messaging. → Read More
Futures Lab Update #83: Pushing Forward With Long-form, Interactive Multimedia
This week we explore how documentary video and interactive technologies can be combined to tell new kinds of immersive, in-depth stories online. PART 1: NPR’s “Planet Money Makes a T-shirt” This Emmy Award-winning project, created by NPR, raised more than half a million dollars <a href=https://www.kickstarter. → Read More