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By 5 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 5, send your top three preferences ranked to Rob via Slack direct message. If you have a particular reason for interest in the projects you ranked, please share with me.
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Jeff City beat project — I worked as a state government reporter and want to help local newspapers access this news.
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Mobility Worldwide — I have an interest in services for international clients, and worked with the MU Office of Disability Services in the past.
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Bur Oak Brewing — I'm a strat-comm student looking for experience in designing sites for a wide range of audiences.
CCA stands for the Chinese Communication Association. In spite of its name, we don’t represent counterparts in mainland China or Taiwan, who have their own associations. CCA is based in the US, and attracts communication professors, researchers, professional and students interested in communication related to China, and Chinese issues. We have about 300 members all over the world, but most of them come from the US, Europe, Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, mainland China, and Taiwan.
A CCA website has two targeted audiences: one being members of CCA so they keep up with activities in CCA and their membership and communication needs. The other being non-members wanting to find out more about CCA and learning CCA activities, which include conferences, newsletter releases, award nominations, webinars, and research collaborations.
CCA is affiliated with some major communication organizations, including ICA, AEJMC, NCA, APCA and WJEC where we feature paper panels during their annual conferences. A major part of CCA is send out calls for papers, reviewed submitted papers, and announced conference information on the website. Because we have our own deadline for paper reviews, I have been trying to see if we can build a mechanism in our website where people can submit papers, then our organizers can assign papers to reviewers, and they review papers from the website. If the process is too complicated, I want at least a feature that will allow them to submit papers, and the system registers its time of submission.
The main components of the website should include the following sections: home, about, membership, newsletters, conferences, and resources and links. Dynamism and easy navigation are desirable. The current CCA website resides at cca1.org. Our system association is KACA. They do a better job than us in terms of website design. Here is the link. http://www.thekaca.org/.
Contact: Shuhua Zhou, zhoushuh@missouri.edu
Alfred Friendly Press Partners is a 35-year-old nonprofit organization that provides training in the United States and abroad for journalists from countries with underdeveloped media. During the six-month fellowship program, reporters train at the Missouri School of Journalism and within leading U.S. newsrooms so they can practice journalism that is ethical, innovative and influential. The Fellows, 316 so far from 80+ countries, learned from mentors and editors with broad experience.
Our audiences are donors and potential donors, former Fellows (alumni) and potential fellows, news media partners and potential news media partners, peer organizations like the Center for International Media Assistance, the International Center for Journalists and the Committee to Protect Journalists; and foundations and corporations interested in our work.
We want to improve the design of our WordPress site and add some elements. We want to chose the best-suited Gutenberg-compatible theme (current theme is Candidate) and make changes for the better, while keeping the good parts. We want to add password-protected pages and Zoom capability. (I'm not sure this is the correct terminology) We want to be able to produce newsletters from the site. We want to improve the donation process and related content, and perhaps make it possible to manage transactions on the site rather than going to a third party.
Contact: David Reed, david@presspartners.org
Don Marti at Mozilla, along with the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri, realized there could be an opportunity for RJI, for researchers at Mizzou and the University of Nebraska Omaha, and the Information Trust Exchange Governing Association to take a leadership step in this area. Don introduced RJI to engineers and user researchers at Mizzou and the University of Nebraska to experiment with better ways to manage the confusing requests for “consent” to share user data.
The Global Consent Manager project is the result of this collaboration, with Sean P. Goggins at Missouri and Matt Germonprez at Nebraska as lead researchers. The core implementation is a browser extension now being prototyped by the Missouri-Nebraska engineering team, which stores privacy preferences of the user in a format which is machine readable by collaborating websites – or publishers – using an existing industry standard. The preferences, expressed in a special format called a “consent string” are passed in real time with an interaction with a content- or ad-serving site is begun.
The extension is open source and uses the WebExtensions API, making it portable to Firefox, Google Chrome, and other browsers. And the project is not just building the software, but also conducting in-person research with real users, to measure how well our new approach to consent management performs in two ways: first, making the experience less confusing for users, and second, more accurately reflecting the user’s preferences on how their data is shared among sites.
The actual project work for this class is to work with GCM to develop a more robust website for their needs, specifically one that tells the story of the project from a user's perspective rather than from a science or tech perspective.
Contact: Sean Goggins, s@goggins.com
At the Missouri Urban Journalism Workshop, high school students from around the country work together with the guidance of professional journalists to produce stories, photos and broadcasts. MUJW is sponsored by the Dow Jones News Fund and takes place at the University of Missouri – Columbia. Read some of the workshoppers’ favorite quotes from sources, experiences and moments using the hashtag #MUJW Twitter. The next MUJW will take place in July 2017. The workshop is open to exceptional sophomores but junior/senior status is preferred.
We’ve typically used Wordpress, with limited customization, to house our work from the weeklong workshops. I don’t know exactly what sort of topic we’ll have for this year’s workshop yet. We typically decide that in early April, but given recent news events we could easily have lots of fodder and ideas.
Here’s the most recent site of student work from July.
And, a few from years before:
We almost always have a page for staff and workshop participants, a page of sponsors and our digital archive. Those would be things we could work on now, though we’d likely need to add to it in late spring.
For the landing page that we’re hoping to setup off the Missouri School of Journalism site, we are collecting “behind the scene” photos and I hope to have a few testimonials from past participants and/or coaches.
The idea being that we want more than what you see here. I’m hoping to collect whatever I can find from past groups to give prospective participants and parents an idea of what we do.
Contact: Laura Johnston, johnstonlc@missouri.edu