RJI news
Automating calendars for small newsrooms
The less time journalists spend on rote tasks like data entry, the better. In this project we automated collecting event information for St. Louis Magazine’s website’s event calendar.
Newsroom Notes: Questions to think about for the post-pandemic TV newsroom
KOMU News is the nation’s only teaching laboratory inside a commercial network affiliated TV station. Many of the challenges are the same as other newsrooms—layered with the challenges of teaching the next generation of journalists. We’re providing a first-hand view (and maybe a little advice) from an industry veteran who led the KOMU Newsroom in … Continued
Standardizing your brand on social media
At WHAS11 in Louisville, standardizing the look and feel of social media accounts, specifically Instagram and YouTube, is at the top of the summer projects list.
Journalism’s broken talent pipeline
It’s impossible to address what journalists do and why we exist without understanding how and who becomes a journalist today.
Here’s everything we learned about source diversity auditing
Two years ago, Chalkbeat joined a growing list of newsrooms attempting to track the diversity of our sources so we could better understand whose perspectives we’re elevating in our journalism.
What does it take to revive feature obituaries?
Before the famous and powerful die, notice of their death is often already written. When death comes — the details are polished, dates added, and their stories get shared.
Eight ways smaller newsrooms can make audio pay
As advertising reliance becomes an increasingly redundant, risky and outdated strategy, it is incumbent on publishers large and small to implement strategies which generate revenue from multiple sources.
Solidarity reporting moves away from elites and to people subjected
Gabe Schneider interviews Anita Varma, a journalism ethicist, who has aimed to extrapolate the practices of journalists who have centered community needs with what she calls solidarity reporting.
6 ways to incorporate Clubhouse and Twitter Spaces in your audience strategy
As the pandemic has forced many publishers to change the way they engage with readers, one addition to the audience wheelhouse has been the use of audio-based social media platforms.
Building a platform for Black stories by Black journalists
For far too long, stories about the Black community have been sparse, often relegated to the back pages of newspapers or buried at the end of a TV newscast. This has inspired us to create a new platform, NABJ Media Network.