Fellows 2017–2018
Christopher Guess
Christopher Guess is a technologist, journalist and creator of Push, an open-source mobile news app. Prior to his RJI Fellowship, Guess was based in Sarajevo, Bosnia, for two years as a Knight International Journalism Fellow with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. During this time, he began work on the Push mobile app ecosystem. … Continued
Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette
A team from The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, will address the troubling trend of trust in news media by creating an interactive game that will give news consumers an inside look at how a newsroom operates. The real-time strategy game will be based on real newsroom situations. The team consists of Executive Editor Zack … Continued
Linda Austin
Linda Austin is an award-winning editor and educator, schooled in instructional design and experienced in international teaching, online learning, journalism-curriculum and training development. She is the project director for NewsTrain, a training initiative sponsored by Associated Press Media Editors. Austin has worked with local media organizations to identify training needs, devising and teaching at digital-skills workshops … Continued
Science Friday
Christian Skotte, co-director and head of digital of the public radio show Science Friday, will put together short and shareable informative resources from scientists to help listeners and others combat misinformation on social media. Skotte then wants to measure how much impact the resources have, and share those results and resources with the news industry.