RJI news
How Next City collected impact stories from readers
And impact takeaways from Borderless Magazine and Tradeoffs.
Developing a TikTok campaign to boost high school sports coverage
How to apply TikTok sports trends to local news.
Finding what works for your community on TikTok
A conversation with Melissa Clavijo, The Emancipator.
Getting started with a gun violence prevention beat
Using a public health lens to guide the reporting is critical.
Starting on TikTok? How to create newsroom-specific guidelines
A shared style and tips guide can add consistency to experimentation.
Creating news products for multilingual communities
Early lessons from rethinking our Spanish-language engagement strategy.
How we went from 800 to 7,000 accounts reached per month
Four tests 100 Days in Appalachia ran on Instagram to extend this newsroom’s reach.
How to engage impactfully in the comment section
The Markup dives into comments on TikTok to build brand awareness.
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.