Vote: 2025 RJI Student Innovation Competition

This year’s challenge was for student teams to create something to help journalists and newsrooms tackle the increasing rates of news avoidance to get vital information to the communities they serve. Is it changing the way we present, produce or create news?

Not-for-profit isn’t not-for-money

New local news organizations are often structured as nonprofits and get charitable funding to launch. Their founders then face the challenge of how to continue operations into the future far beyond what that funding will cover.

Every story is a science story

That’s why we’re building a resource that guides journalists along several paths to integrate more science into their coverage.