Michelle Kanaar and Alyssa Schukar will create a online toolkit for local newsrooms which will include sample contracts (with a breakdown of rates and language around licensing, copyright and AI), photographer, videographer and illustrator databases, ethical stock resources, a list of reputable resources on ethics, what information to include for assignments and examples of opportunities … Continued

Katherine Lewis will build an interactive freelancing quick-start guide for independent journalists, based on a business-of-freelancing curriculum that will arm freelancers with the knowledge and skills to reach financial and emotional sustainability. In this guide they will learn the key insights, challenges and decision points in building a freelance business model.

Aura Walmer will build a web-based toolkit for applying data sonification to journalism. It will contain step-by-step guidance for creating data sonification projects and a wide array of resources to do so, with the purpose of making data sonification feasible for all journalists to implement.