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Project Optimist founder Nora Hertel (center) talks with a Jama Alimad (right), an elder in St. Cloud's Somali community, and Sara Nimis (left), a volunteer moderator in the Shades of Purple dialogue series, during the first dialogue event May 13, 2023 at the Stearns History Museum in St. Cloud, Minn.
May 25, 2023
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The highs and lows of launching multiple products in a news startup

Project Optimist launched with a single product and now works on multiple fronts.

Paul Bird, co-founder, Minnesota Digital and Tracey Williams-DIllard, CEO and Publisher of The Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder at the Spokesman-Recorder office in S. Minneapolis.
May 24, 2023
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Using digital screens to grow your audience and build a new revenue stream

If your audience won’t come to you, maybe it’s time to think about going to your audience. That’s one of the guiding principles for a new pilot project from RJI, Dynasty Media and Minnesota Digital.

Brandon Silvers talks with Charleston area boxer Rachel Dunn about the positive effects boxing has had on her mental health and the hurdles she’s had to overcome as a woman in a male-centric sport.
April 24, 2023
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Stepping out of my founder comfort zone: Launching a podcast

As a co-founder of a startup news org in South Charleston, I am experimenting to figure out what works for our communities.

Founder and editor-in-chief Anita Li speaks to attendees at The Green Line's Black Filmmakers in Toronto event on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023. Photo: Aloysius Wong | The Green Line
March 13, 2023
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Creating community-driven journalism that encourages civic engagement

Based on The Green Line’s original theory-of-change models, the Attention Funnel and Action Journey.

INN Director of Collaborations Bridget Thoreson leads a discussion on stakeholder mapping at a collaborative session in Chicago. Photo: INN
February 9, 2023
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Keeping the collaborative drive alive

INN and RJI partner to examine how newsrooms can build sustained topical collaboration.

(Back row left to right) Levi Rickert, Daniel Laplaza, Da’Shaun Harrison. (Second row left to right) Emily Daly, Maria Hernandez, Melanie Figueiredo, Sonali Kohli, Rae’Mah Henderson, Valeria Fernandez. (Third row left to right) Leonor Ayala Polley, Ashton Lattimore, Ariam Alula, Janelle Zagala, Andaiye Taylor, Mitra Kalita, Ellah Nze. (Front row left to right) Ashanti Martin, Arya Royal, Mukhtar M. Ibrahim, Tareq Alani, Candice Fortman, Mazin Sidahmed, Sara Lomax. Photo: Hari Adivarekar
January 3, 2023
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Measuring the unique impact of BIPOC media

This partnership between RJI and URL Media strives to measure how communities are empowered by the media they’re consuming.

Houses
July 26, 2022
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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.

Building under construction. Photo: Danist Soh | Unsplash
June 29, 2022
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RJI announces three local newsrooms to receive development trackers

An outgrowth of Kate Abbey-Lambertz’s RJI Fellowship, the trackers will give communities up-to-date, thorough information about developments in their area.

Chalkbeat and RJI
June 14, 2022
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We’re launching a free tool for journalists to track source diversity

How to sign up and use it for free.

June 10, 2022
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NABJ Black News & Views launches, highlighting stories by Black journalists and about Black community

New media platform was developed in collaboration with the Reynolds Journalism Institute at MU.

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