Jen Lee Reeves

I’m obsessed with social networks. From the moment I started playing with Facebook YEARS ago I saw an amazing opportunity. It’s an amazing way to stay in touch with people and share connections. THEN Facebook added applications… And that’s when I saw the amazing opportunities for newsrooms and educators. Students could add applications and share [...]

Every week, I give students the chance to report “differently.” They have a chance to work with broadcast students who are working on “traditional” news while they can take the topic and expand upon it. What is fun is seeing the amazing work the students came up with. They ranged from audio slideshows to a [...]

I’m working towards a massive project. I’m trying to find a way to collaborate with three different newsrooms (one NPR station, one local paper and my NBC affiliate station). I’d like to give my market the most thorough election site possible for November 2008. Content from all three would feed into the website so no [...]

A year ago I had a moment of genius. I thought how cool it would be to match voters up with candidates by using a social network tool called introNetworks. It’s a flash-based social network site that would be SUPER COOL to use and give people the insight about candidates that match closer to their [...]

I love, love, love to see how major newsrooms are taking advantage of technology. First, using the simplicity of building maps using Google Maps, the LA Times came up with this one. Also, this looks like one of the first major opportunities for MSNBC to use its FirstPerson project. It’s a pretty slick little set [...]

It’s Homecoming here at the University of Missouri. I hold a yearly lunch where alumni talk to current students about what it’s like to go into the “real world.” It’s an awesome chance for students to meet folks who have been there, done that. It was also a great chance for me to reiterate my [...]

One of my students found an article in Time magazine that is pretty appropriate to think about when it comes to teaching people about new media. As technology is more transparent, media blends together better. A little first person article mentions how life is changing in a common household. Attention spans are different now. Plus… [...]

There’s this debate in journalism classrooms: How much time do you spend training students on software and how much time do you spend teaching about the actual thought process and skill of being a journalist.  In the industry, the challenge is how can you afford the tech know-how without finding journalists who already know the [...]

With all of the advances in technology, it’s sometimes hard to remember the “old days.”  Today an article in the New York Times says a lot about why media can’t forget the traditional delivery methods outright.  The NYT reminds us all about the Iowa caucus.  Reporter Julie Bosman reports how most people who are going [...]

So I was grocery shopping and thinking about this blog.  I’ve blogged for years, but mostly about my family life.  I have two adorable kids who are pretty darn interesting.  But as I get deeper and deeper into my career, I realize I really should write down my professional thoughts.  It all exploded this summer [...]