Skye Lucas

Skye Lucas is a 2024 RJI Student Innovation Fellow partnered with The Markup. The RJI Student Fellows will be sharing their innovative work throughout the summer in Innovation in Focus.

A ground-level look into the burnout crisis

RJI released the results of its survey on burnout in the news industry earlier this year. The survey produced a lot of data to work with, and researchers are still combing new insights from the responses of current and former journalists, but data is only one piece of the puzzle.

Local journalism is hard work. Help us carry the load

Through my first decade in the field, Nora Hertel could see that local audiences did not feel well served as the media grew more polarized, nationalized and negative. So, she left in 2021 and launched her own news organization, Project Optimist.

Lisa Griffin

Lisa Griffin is an RJI Columnist focused on helping newsrooms build revenue and funding through grants, fundraising and diversifying their community based revenue streams.

Free speech in the age of AI

Jared Schroeder, an associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism’s Reynolds Journalism Institute, has authored a book that explores new ways of thinking about free speech in the era of sophisticated generative AI. “The structure of ideas: mapping a new theory of free expression in the AI era” is available July 1.

Chioma Obianinwa

Chioma is an Innovation Team student staffer for Summer 2024. She will be working on the Innovation in Focus series and assisting with projects such as helping research for the USA Press Freedom Index project.