RJI Fellows Class of 2022-2023
The 2022-23 RJI Fellows are working on a variety of projects from a slack-based SEO bot to a succession planning toolkit. Each month they produce an article sharing lessons learned, guides, templates and tips from the building of their fellowship project.
How to implement community listening
Eight steps to begin incorporating field canvassers into your newsroom’s work Borderless Magazine is a small (but mighty!) nonprofit news outlet based in Chicago. We cover immigration and immigrant communities, and about half of our online audience reads our work in Spanish. In order to stretch our modest resources and better serve our audiences, we … Continued
Leaders, let’s first plan for an emergency
Good succession planning starts with what to do if a leader needs to take a temporary absence.
Why you should care about your news site’s SEO
Common challenges, core basics and practical first steps.
Securing our safety online
What journalists need to know about digital security.
The majority of Americans say they do not know a Muslim
The need to develop a Muslim media toolkit.
Facilitating media-making workshops with youth who are incarcerated
11 tips for getting started.
Why your news outlet needs an on-the-ground strategy
Borderless Magazine’s Diane Bou Khalil shares guidance for meeting community members where they’re at.
Local news leadership transitions require budgets, bandwidth and a breadth of skills
Sara Shahriari of INN shares insights on the challenges of succession planning for nonprofit news organizations.
Making sense of your core web vitals
Learn how the loading speed, accessibility and other performance metrics of your news site stacks up.
What journalists are saying about Muslims in the news media
Community voices.