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RJI Student Innovation Fellows

The RJI Student Innovation Fellows are Mizzou journalism students who are awarded fellowships to work with newsrooms across the country for the summer to introduce new and build upon current innovative initiatives.

Everlit overview dashboard
July 15, 2025

Using audio automation to engage with audiences

Implementing the text-to-audio tool Everlit.

Illinois Times partners with a new civic nonprofit called SeeGov to create video highlights of city council meetings to coincide with their local government coverage.
July 14, 2025

New tool combines AI, human judgment to create video highlights from public meetings

How Illinois Times is using SeeGov to expand city council coverage.

Maps of Delaware 1. Spotlight Delaware coverage by county 2. Spotlight Delaware coverage by region
July 10, 2025

Solutions for auditing sources in small newsrooms

Including tools and strategies to evaluate geographic diversity of coverage.

Screenshot of the Epicenter NYC homepage
July 8, 2025

How to build an AI toolkit for your newsroom

Our test-and-learn approach to AI at Epicenter NYC.

Innovation in Focus tested Descript as a video editing tool for clipping long public meetings for social media.
July 7, 2025

How to transform public meetings into engaging social media clips

Testing Descript, OpusClip and Veed.

Here we see that the majority of respondents cited lack of time as a reason for not interacting with local government.
July 2, 2025

Simplifying civic engagement with local government

Hello from Sioux Falls, South Dakota!

An example of a news tip automated to be sent from Airtable to Slack
July 1, 2025

How a new workflow aims to strengthen community relationships through news tips

A guide for streamlining news tips with Airtable, Slack.

The Source created a data hub to compare the amount of calls for service across two regions of Bend, Oregon: the current downtown and another region of the city that has locals chattering about potential for urbanization.
June 30, 2025

Fact checking police claims about crime with data maps

Identifying the influx of one local police department’s calls for service.

June 26, 2025

Integrating data visualization into a reporter’s workflow

Finding tools and methods that work for your newsroom.

Kathambari Ramkumar, Sophia Anderson, Sophie Rentschler, Makayla Voris, Kalyn Laire, Cristal Sanchez, Genevieve Smith
January 31, 2025

Seven Student Innovation Fellows to spend summer at community news organizations across the country

The Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism is sending seven journalism students to work at community newsrooms all over the country this summer.

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