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Examples of ready-to-use graphics for NOLA.org
September 21, 2022
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Craft a utility content strategy to better serve your community during natural disasters

NOLA.com organized their evergreen content, prepared templates and planned a strategy to make sure their community will have the vital information they need.

Photo: Jakob Rosen | Unsplash
September 21, 2022
Citizen and community news

‘Who’s going to run it?’

The pause before buying a rural newspaper — can you attract an editor to a small town?

An illustration shows an incarcerated person writing with a pen/a prison bar representing the project's idea.
September 20, 2022
Citizen and community news

Building a visual storytelling experience in Newspack

Newspack streamlines publisher content, but creative storytelling can be a challenge.

L-R: Misty DeJournett, Barb Horton, Samantha Tucker and Donna Farley
September 20, 2022
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RJI helps rural Missouri newspaper hit its digital stride with Potter Digital Ambassadors program

Small-town community newspapers are seeing a resurgence as regional chains reclaim them from national conglomerates and re-center them on local news. But some of the same factors that make these rural communities attractive markets also present roadblocks to building a modernized local news machine.

The social card above was posted to La Voz’s social media sites in English and Spanish to get the word out about the community listening sessions. Along with providing contact information, we also interacted with respondents in the comments of any posts we published to promote the events.
September 19, 2022
Citizen and community news

How listening sessions can connect you to the local community

Build trust and improve content coverage from direct contact with readers.

Nora Hertel, left, founder ofThe Optimist, talks with fellow journalist Jenny Berg in St. Cloud, Minnesota, in November 2022. Photo: Sarah Kocher
August 23, 2022
Citizen and community news

Founding The Optimist

Solution-focused journalism and community conversations for rural Minnesotans.

Who is your audience?
August 22, 2022
Citizen and community news

Incorporating reader feedback at Illinois Latino News

“We want to hear from our readers,” said Hugo Balta, Publisher of Illinois Latino Network, the online news outlet targeting the Latinx community in the state. The network had previously used forms to solicit opinions from readers, but had been inconsistent in the endeavor. Now it was time for a revival. 

Three women with their backs to the camera, all wearing hijabs under a blossoming cherry tree. Photo: Hasan Almasi | Unsplash
August 10, 2022
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Learning how to address Muslims and Islam in the media

How it started.

"What I do is conditional to my reality, what I dream is not." Scalawag Executive Director & Publisher Cierra Brown Hinton
August 3, 2022
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‘We are going to help people get free’

Using news and information tools to stretch far past incremental change by waking a radical imagination.

Borderless Magazine Field Canvasser Angie Lopez speaks to community members in Chicago on April 17, 2022. Photo by Michelle Kanaar/Borderless Magazine
August 2, 2022
Citizen and community news

A Chicago news outlet rethinks ‘hard-to-reach’ audiences

RJI Fellow Nissa Rhee will give people a behind-the-scenes look at how Borderless Magazine is using field canvassers to reach their Spanish communities.

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