RJI news
How to authentically ask for audience participation in newsletters
A conversation with Sam Cholke and Andrew Haeg.
2024 RJI Student Innovation Fellows to spend summer helping community newsrooms innovate
Four Missouri School of Journalism students have been named the 2024 Student Innovation Fellows at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute.
2023 at RJI: A look back
2023 was another year full of new solutions and ideas for the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism. Even as RJI continued to focus on strengthening community news by supporting innovative approaches to content and funding models and performing in-house experimentation here at RJI, the national breadth and impact of … Continued
Building interactive visuals for newsletter engagement
How a newsletter drew participation through a holiday gift guide.
How journalists can help communities prepare for disasters
What does your community need to know?
How to build news quizzes to encourage habitual engagement
Missouri Business Alert expands their quiz from Instagram to newsletters.
Boulder’s million-ton coal ash problem
Investigated not by experienced journalists, but by a community pop-up newsroom.
How this startup newsroom has worked to build a ‘culture of care’
Amanda Zamora of The 19th* on creating a new work culture.
Building the United States of press freedom index
We’re rating press freedom across U.S. states and territories to make it useful and actionable for journalists in the field.
Contracting and paying sensitivity readers
What to pay and where to code your 2024 sensitivity budget expenditures.