Expand, research and test community funded reporting through Spot.Us and more.

“During the Reynolds Journalism Fellowship I worked on pushing ‘community-focused sponsorships,’ a new model that brings large sponsorships into the Spot.Us framework. This model unlocks sponsorship dollars when community members engage with a sponsor’s message. In exchange, the community members of Spot.Us take charge of the sponsorship budget. This will further explore Spot.Us relinquishing control of the money for journalism and turning it over to the community.”

Exploring — through facts, financials and case studies — how journalists can support themselves and their work by embracing the new journalism of partnership and information sharing with the audience.

Developing and launching profitable newspaper business models for the coming generation of e-readers.

Strategies to leverage online revenue in small to mid-sized news markets.

As a Reynolds Fellow, Michele McLellan developed Michele’s List featuring local news startups and organized Block by Block: Community News Summit 2010, a gathering of more than 100 local news entrepreneurs, which was held annually until 2012. A new group — Local Independent Online News Publishers (LION) — formed in 2013 and launched the LION Summit in October 2013 to carry on the work of the Block by Block conferences.

Developing strategies that help newspapers deliver the news via mobile phones carried by nearly every American adult.

An exploration of how journalistic storytelling translates to Web-based platforms, and what storytelling techniques and approaches work most effectively online.

Columbia Tomorrow offers a glimpse of a new promise for journalism – a chance for a new site that’s not only timely, but timeless, that aims not just for diversion, but for understanding, that’s less about breaking the news and more about fixing it.

Jane Stevens developed two webcentric social/news/information networks — one focusing on health, with a subshell about child trauma, and the other about sustainable oceans. Out of this, Stevens hoped would come low- or no-cost Web-shell templates that many of the 11,000+ journalists who have lost their jobs can use to start their own niche news networks.

Jennifer Reeves worked to integrate multiple newsrooms to create a multimedia, multi-platform hub for regional news.