Help fund student innovation
Here at The Dallas Morning News Innovation Endowment, we are working toward innovating journalism with our students. This means creating podcasts, building bots and planning community events. These projects give students the work experience they both want and need to develop stellar careers. To help further innovative student journalism, donate.MIG Data Fellows
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Rural Journalism Pipeline Project
A team of researchers at the University of Texas at Austin is working with the IC2 Institute to study and preserve independently-owned community newspapers in Texas.
The Classes We Offer
Digital Innovations Capstone Class
The Digital Innovations Capstone is a cross-disciplinary senior level course where students work together on teams to create data driven innovative media products. The class is taught by Innovation Director Christian McDonald.
Introduction to Coding for Journalists
Upper division students learn basic coding skills and develop best practices used in digital newsrooms to create data-driven online presentations. Students learn programming languages with the goal to introduce students to computer programming. The class is taught by Innovation Director Christian McDonald.
Reporting with Data
This class introduces students to the basics of computer-assisted reporting. Students learn how to locate and analyze data sets, use data visualization to accurately report with data, and presenting the results through stories, charts and maps. This class is taught by Innovation Director Christian McDonald and Dr. Josephine Lukito.
App Development
This cross-disciplinary course includes upper division students from across campus working on teams to create iPhone and Android apps while using journalistic multimedia skills to promote their products. The class is taught by Jeff Linwood.
Digital Storytelling
Lower division students learn about the various forms of journalism, from audio and video to social media. This class is taught by former Innovation Director Robert Quigley.