Professional Partnerships

Students who learn by engaging in the daily practice of journalism are a hallmark of the Missouri Method. The school continually seeks to form partnerships with professional media organizations and other industry representatives.

An ideal partnership gives students an opportunity to solve real-world challenges while giving the outside media partners a fresh well of innovation and an ideal setting in which to develop or experiment with new ideas. Through these efforts, students learn by doing while helping create or test innovative solutions for an individual company or the industry at large.

Recent Examples:

Students Help OneLouder Market Social Apps

When an executive with a company that develops social apps came to the University of Missouri for his daughter’s graduation, he approached convergence journalism Professor Randy Smith about help for marketing a new product. [More]

Futures Lab Helps STLtoday.com with Web Analytics

STLtoday.com, a leading news website in St. Louis, turned to the Futures Lab at the Reynolds Journalism Institute to learn more about its audience in efforts to attract more readers – and more revenue. [More]

Students Develop iPad App for MU’s Homecoming

A photo retrospective iPad app for the University of Missouri’s 100th Homecoming built with the help of magazine journalism students at the School of Journalism signals an unfolding initiative to expand their creative development skills for the private sector. [More]

VeriCorder’s Olympic Trial

VeriCorder, a producer of mobile reporting tools, wanted to see how its products might be used in real life. They sent two Missouri convergence journalism students, along with a faculty editor, to cover the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. [More]

Innovation for Meredith Corporation

The Missouri School of Journalism’s magazine journalism area has created new magazine concepts for Meredith Corporation and its special-interest media business for several years. [More]

Hearst + Adobe + RJI = Winning Ideas

Hearst Corporation, Adobe and the Reynolds Journalism Institute housed at the school jointly sponsored a student competition to produce interactive applications that solve real-world needs in the advertising and news-gathering sides of the journalism industry. [More]

To suggest partnership ideas, or to get more information about how your company might join forces with the world’s first school of Journalism, contact the Missouri School of Journalism.