Fellowships
Launching the Arts Journalism Initiative
Faced with a declining landscape for traditional arts coverage, shrinking newsroom budgets and an explosive rise in digital influencers filling the vacuum, 2025-2026 Residential RJI Fellow Rebecca Ritzel set out to look for solutions that preserve the quality and integrity of arts and culture journalism. Ritzel, a freelance arts and entertainment reporter and longtime contributor … Continued
Introducing the 2026-2027 RJI Fellows
The Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism has selected the 2026 class of RJI Professional Innovation Fellows, who will work to build free, open-source resources for journalists.
Building better practices for covering gun violence
In 2019, Jim MacMillan started his Reynolds Journalism Institute fellowship with a hunch: that the common ways journalists reported on gun violence weren’t helping the public understand the crisis and were often causing further harm to gun violence survivors and their communities.
Why Tracie Powell is demanding a power shift in media funding
‘Upsetting the apple cart’: The Pivot Fund founder on her commitment to invest $500 million in innovative local outlets.
Introducing Covering Drugs: A media resource guide
This 150-page reference guide includes research, surveys, data, and other helpful information for journalists covering substance use, addiction, overdose, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery.
Hello World: Introducing a simple framework to boost the impact of your journalism
Today we’re launching Audacity Media Lab, tools and other resources for producing journalism that makes change.
Plan your walking tour pilot with ‘A Tour Guide for Journalists’
All you need is a route, a script and a community.
Announcing Powering News: Free resources for worker-friendly newsrooms
Support for journalists who want a voice and a vote in their newsroom, plus the first newsroom database launches.
Introducing Grants for Journalists
An introduction to who’s funding what – and how to start your applications.
Covering Immigration: Journalism needs more than good intentions
Tools for ethical, accurate immigration coverage.