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How to get started creating vertical videos
A conversation with creator journalist Alexa Stone.
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Spread, a new method for connecting newsrooms and social media creators, wins grand prize in Student Innovation Competition
The Reynolds Journalism Institute awarded $13,500 in prizes Thursday to the top three teams in its annual Student Innovation Competition.
Rural Revenue Transformation Workshop draws rural news leaders together to generate ideas and put them into practice
News leaders from all over the country gathered this April at the Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) to tackle the revenue challenges facing rural news.
Put the stories of people with intellectual disabilities on stage
RJI and WORDSLAW are partnering to help newsrooms try a different method of connecting with their under-covered communities — public storytelling.
How to partner with a local business to grow your newsletter subscribers
We made coffee punch cards to incentivize customers to subscribe to a newsletter.
Vote: 2026 RJI Student Innovation Competition
Voting is closed News influencers, newsfluencers or news creators — however you label them — are transforming how current events get shared and understood by the public. They build trust and reach with audiences who feel disconnected from traditional journalism and who prefer to consume information on social platforms. According to a report from the … Continued
Mass detention database puts trove of data at fingertips of investigative journalists
With the launch of ICEtracking.org late last month from Evident Media, journalists have a new resource that parses and organizes a wide range of information about mass detentions.
How journalists around the world are using our solutions chatbot
In January 2026, we launched LuzLab.org — a free, trilingual, publicly available chatbot that guides journalists as they develop solutions journalism story ideas in Spanish, English or Portuguese.
New research reveals best practices for newsrooms on TikTok
Learn how to create successful, platform-specific content.
Driving newsletter subscriptions through postcards
A community engagement project, analog style Covering everything from school district events to sports in a Kansas town of about 6,000 residents, reporters at the Eudora Times are well connected with their community. Still, the paper was interested in extending their reach beyond their immediate surroundings. They also wanted to draw more eyes to their … Continued