Community
Journalism keeps asking the wrong question
What happens when you stop asking, “How do we save journalism?” and start asking what people actually need from it.
How audience interviews surface opportunities for service-oriented journalism
Talking to people gets you the answers that analytics don’t: the ‘How?’ and ‘Why?’ behind your audience’s motivations.
RJI Student Innovation Fellows unveil tools and strategies for community newsrooms in public webinar
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.
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.
How newsrooms collaborating helps their local communities
Collaboration across newsrooms can help to serve communities in deeper, more impactful ways.
How to work with librarians and ESL teachers to reach communities
A blueprint for finding ways to collaborate with librarians and other civil servants to bring quality information to hard-to-reach communities An update about immigration policies. News about the wars in Iran and Israel. The recipe of a delicious meal. This is how one ESL (English as a Second Language) adult student described their social media … Continued
How to start a youth reporting program in your community
What Mirror Indy learned while launching a new summer program that helps young people report stories from their own neighborhoods.
How rural weeklies in Missouri are covering arts and culture
Newspapers see arts as community builders.
The Bridge (RiverWise)
I teamed up with an after school program to have a listening session with students about what they want to see in the news, and then the students created our April newsletter.
12 innovative community news projects that built trust and relationships
From student-led newsletters to cafecitos and audio history, the Community-Centered Symposium helped newsrooms and support orgs connect with their communities.