RJI news
Creating opportunities for conversations with community
What are we doing right? What are we doing wrong? Has editorial coverage been helpful or harmful to the community?
Missouri School of Journalism’s Watchdog Writers Group announces new fellows and student reporters
Authors and students will produce books and articles on climate change and agriculture, the big business of addiction recovery, and the America’s housing crisis and credit system.
How to successfully hand-off projects and initiatives
Abigail Shaw put together multiple toolkits to help the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service continue to implement the initiatives and social media campaigns she has been planning all summer.
Harnessing the power of animation to reach underserved audiences
The challenge of communicating critical and lifesaving information across language and literacy barriers is universal. Wordless films cross language and literacy barriers.
Is disability invisible in your newsroom? It’s beyond time to fix that
If teens on TikTok can add captions to videos, you can, too.
Who’s building my city? This local service journalism tool will help residents find answers
The Detroit Development Tracker will put data into the hands of those most affected.
Maintaining digital projects in your newsroom
Create a Tableau dashboard that anyone can update with Google Sheets I had a busy summer working with and creating interactive digital tools for the Mankato Free Press. My work ranged from daily graphics to bigger long-term digital tools. I branched out from my comfort zone, using tools like Tableau and Flourish in ways I … Continued
Some social media perks you should know about
Third party design apps and tools for social media are your allies in engaging with audiences.
Financing multicultural media: New collaboration positions publishers of color as catalysts for equitable community development
A robust, resilient and diverse media ecosystem is as essential to a community’s well-being as affordable housing, reliable transportation and accessible capital.
Leaders of color could be the future of local news — as long as we can convince them to stay
Journalists of color need internal and external support to accelerate their pace of growth and development.