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Launching the Arts Journalism Initiative
Faced with a declining landscape for traditional arts coverage, shrinking newsroom budgets and an explosive rise in digital influencers filling the vacuum, 2025-2026 Residential RJI Fellow Rebecca Ritzel set out to look for solutions that preserve the quality and integrity of arts and culture journalism. Ritzel, a freelance arts and entertainment reporter and longtime contributor … Continued
New research reveals who young adults choose to deliver news when AI gives them control
Popular choices? AI anchors who look like the study participants and those who look like prototypical broadcasters.
How the Columbia Missourian took an issues-based approach to election coverage
A sortable voter’s guide allows readers to see candidate responses to key issues.
Introducing the 2026-2027 RJI Fellows
The Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism has selected the 2026 class of RJI Professional Innovation Fellows, who will work to build free, open-source resources for journalists.
Mariann Martin
Mariann Martin is building the Civic Memory Project, a platform that provides an issue-based, shared documentation workspace—allowing newsrooms nationwide to collaborate more effectively and serve their communities with deeper, more nuanced reporting. It will provide a shared record infrastructure that allows outlets to collectively share and organize public documents, interview transcripts, FOIA results, legislative timelines, … Continued
Journalism must retire ‘no comment’ phrase, new survey from Reynolds Journalism Institute reveals
Addressing the rising tide of “no comment” could help the industry solve its dual crises of declining trust and rising hostility.
How to partner with a local business to grow your newsletter subscribers
We made coffee punch cards to incentivize customers to subscribe to a newsletter.
Tiny revenue experiments can lead to big developments
This article is part of RJI Impact, a series documenting how RJI projects are making a real difference for newsrooms and audiences all over the country. It was originally published in the Winter 2026 edition of RJI Insight, RJI’s biannual print magazine. A digital version of the magazine is available here. In spring 2025, RJI’s … Continued
Why Tracie Powell is demanding a power shift in media funding
‘Upsetting the apple cart’: The Pivot Fund founder on her commitment to invest $500 million in innovative local outlets.
Introducing Covering Drugs: A media resource guide
This 150-page reference guide includes research, surveys, data, and other helpful information for journalists covering substance use, addiction, overdose, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery.