Author: Lamar
Building a local legislation tracker
Multiple municipalities, data extraction and getting started with automation.
How rural weeklies in Missouri are covering arts and culture
Newspapers see arts as community builders.
Bay City News Election Playbook, Part 2: Newsrooms can vibe code their way to automated election night dashboard
Election night is a high-stakes, labor-intensive operation — and not just for the candidates. As voters wait for returns, community journalists fight an uphill battle to make sense of data released in disparate formats from different sources. But a breakthrough experiment at Bay City News provides a new blueprint for success. By leveraging generative artificial … Continued
Free tools, big impact: RJI’s resources for election coverage
The Reynolds Journalism Institute has spent the last several years building a library of free, practical resources designed specifically for newsrooms.
Launching the Arts Journalism Initiative
Faced with a declining landscape for traditional arts coverage, shrinking newsroom budgets and an explosive rise in digital influencers filling the vacuum, 2025-2026 Residential RJI Fellow Rebecca Ritzel set out to look for solutions that preserve the quality and integrity of arts and culture journalism. Ritzel, a freelance arts and entertainment reporter and longtime contributor … Continued
New research reveals who young adults choose to deliver news when AI gives them control
Popular choices? AI anchors who look like the study participants and those who look like prototypical broadcasters.
The Bridge (RiverWise)
I teamed up with an after school program to have a listening session with students about what they want to see in the news, and then the students created our April newsletter.
The Edge
The Edge has been the only outlet to break stories in important land use events locally, and to continue following the stories at every stage.
LION Publishers
This was the first time in my role as Community Manager at LION that I’ve created a project with the goal of deepening a cohort’s engagement with each other virtually.
American Press Institute
In March, the American Press Institute launched a community dinner for our audience of news leaders and product thinkers.