RJI news
Finding the sweet spot with the Google Ad Grants Program
A conversation with Tyler Dedrick from Mountain State Spotlight
RJI Student Innovation Fellows unveil tools and strategies for community newsrooms in public webinar
Contact: Kat Duncan, duncank@rjionline.org This summer, four international master’s students at the Missouri School of Journalism each spent 12 weeks stationed in a community newsroom, where they helped bring to life everything from new audience engagement strategies to data visualizations and automated information tracking. As the newest cohort of Student Innovation Fellows from the School’s … Continued
Building a civic information hub
Civic Strata: A shared foundation for data, documents and community reporting/
20th RJI Student Innovation Competition open for entries
The Reynolds Journalism Institute’s (RJI) Student Innovation Competition is open for entries.
Testing Google Ads Grant program to grow local audiences
Exploring how free search advertising may increase readership and newsletter subscriptions
Donations are becoming a lifeline for local newspapers, but not without tension
Some for-profit newsroom leaders believe reader support is a chance to keep pace with rising costs while keeping their publications available to the public.
How to build a kindness map for your community
A simple guide for newsrooms that want to map local help, volunteer opportunities and stories of kindness.
Collective action: We need a news marketplace
Demonstrating a publisher-centric network to easily share — and bill — AI agents and (others) for valuable content.
We are building a tool to help newsrooms listen to emergency scanners
The Public Safety Scanner Tool, or PSST, sends automated alerts of urgent scanner traffic in real time and will be free for newsrooms.
How newsrooms collaborating helps their local communities
Collaboration across newsrooms can help to serve communities in deeper, more impactful ways.