RJI news
Local communities and local news need a new economic narrative: Why not create it together?
If local news is so critical to the health, economic and civic success of a community, why are local news organizations an afterthought in economic development conversations? And what would it take to change that?
RJI Fellow to develop data-journalism unit for smaller scale nonprofit newsroom
The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute has awarded seven fellowships for the 2020–21 academic year for projects that address the increasing challenges in covering climate change, unpublishing, harassment of marginalized journalists and more.
Photographing vulnerable populations in public spaces: The ethics of protest coverage
Panelists Carlos Gonzalez, Brent Lewis and Tara Pixley lead a discussion on this timely and historical topic
Newsroom Notes: Leading through uncertainty
What does Ulysses Grant have to do with being a newsroom leader? Read on.
Innovative strategies: 5 tips from Instagram news fellows
The fellows are now halfway through the program and already seeing tangible results from strategic shifts they have implemented.
RJI Fellow will help newsrooms diversify their source lists with a training curriculum
The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute has awarded seven fellowships for the 2020–21 academic year for projects that address the increasing challenges in covering climate change, unpublishing, harassment of marginalized journalists and more. Wanting to help news outlets do a better job representing the diverse communities they serve through their story sources, prompted freelance journalist … Continued
Why the email newsletter is 2020’s MVP format
Newsletters are surging, and it’s not just a COVID thing
COVID-19 news widget
Learn how to put the Missouri Info Corps COVID-19 widget on your news homepage for a regular inflow of COVID-19 news from around the state.
Mixed reality: Meeting readers where they are
Trent Tarantino is the RJI Student Innovation Fellow at the Washington Post in Washington, D.C. This summer our student fellows will be sharing dispatches from their fellowships in newsrooms across the country as a part of Innovation in Focus. Jeremy Gilbert, of The Washington Post, and Robert Hernandez, of USC Annenberg, discuss mixed reality for … Continued
11th Hour Project awards $1.1 million, 3-year grant to Watchdog Writers Group
Funding will support authors and students to produce high impact investigative print reporting projects.