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?
Building a visual storytelling experience in Newspack
Newspack streamlines publisher content, but creative storytelling can be a challenge.
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.
How listening sessions can connect you to the local community
Build trust and improve content coverage from direct contact with readers.
Founding The Optimist
Solution-focused journalism and community conversations for rural Minnesotans.
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.
Learning how to address Muslims and Islam in the media
How it started.
‘We are going to help people get free’
Using news and information tools to stretch far past incremental change by waking a radical imagination.
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.
Could a banking law designed to end redlining drive more capital into local journalism?
A consortium of Black news publishers wants federal regulators to update Community Reinvestment Act rules so banks do more for local, minority-owned media.