RJI Impact
Exploring the intersection of public policy and local news
This article is part of RJI Impact, a series documenting how RJI projects are making a real difference for newsrooms and audiences all over the country. It was originally published in the Winter 2026 edition of RJI Insight, RJI’s biannual print magazine. A digital version of the magazine is available here. As more people argue … Continued
Tiny revenue experiments can lead to big developments
This article is part of RJI Impact, a series documenting how RJI projects are making a real difference for newsrooms and audiences all over the country. It was originally published in the Winter 2026 edition of RJI Insight, RJI’s biannual print magazine. A digital version of the magazine is available here. In spring 2025, RJI’s … Continued
Building better practices for covering gun violence
In 2019, Jim MacMillan started his Reynolds Journalism Institute fellowship with a hunch: that the common ways journalists reported on gun violence weren’t helping the public understand the crisis and were often causing further harm to gun violence survivors and their communities.
An RJI Fellowship resource helping journalists make data listenable
For her 2024-2025 RJI Fellowship, Aura Walmer developed a toolkit to help journalists tell data stories through audio — an approach known as data sonification.
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A summer fellowship that boosts newsrooms’ digital capacity
Creating opportunities for newsrooms to get new ideas from digital natives has become a cornerstone project for the Reynolds Journalism Institute through its summer Student Innovation Fellowship.