<a href="http://joymayer.com/">Joy Mayer</a> was a <a href="http://www.rjionline.org/people/joy-mayer">2010-2011 Reynolds Fellow</a> at the Missouri School of Journalism where she studied community engagement in journalism in a project she called "Ditch the Lecture. Join the Conversation: Reconceiving the role of journalists in a participatory culture." She is <a href="http://journalism.missouri.edu/faculty/joy-mayer.html">an associate professor</a> at the Missouri School of Journalism and an editor at the Columbia Missourian.