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RJI Fellows Impact Report: 2023–2024 fellowships already benefiting hundreds of journalists
The impacts of projects from the eight journalists and professionals who completed their 2023–2024 RJI Fellowships this year are gathering momentum as news organizations implement and iterate on their ideas.
How to hire a sensitivity editor
The identity readers, editors, and consultants you can hire right now.
What to look for in a sensitivity reader
Lived experience is just the beginning.
Contracting and paying sensitivity readers
What to pay and where to code your 2024 sensitivity budget expenditures.
It takes real effort to make journalism inclusive
Sensitivity professionals nudge newsrooms up the effort-to-impact ramp towards inclusion.
A sensitivity editor takes on my tweets
What it looks like when a small newsroom tries a little harder.
How a pop-up community newsroom shed light on wildfire health impacts in Boulder, Colorado
We’re building a guide to help newsrooms fill voids in deep-dive reporting with their communities.
The argument for sensitivity readers
Equity cannot be achieved through staffing alone Some years ago my news organization began employing sensitivity readers in our work. We didn’t call it that at the time. The broad imperative of these sensitivity professionals was to help ensure that a story did not in any way harm or further marginalize identity communities featured in … Continued
Introducing the 2023-2024 RJI Fellows
The newest class of RJI Fellows is working to help newsrooms engage with and accurately represent their communities. Their innovative and practical projects range from teaching journalists how to work with amateur radio operators during natural disasters to improving the quality of reporting on Latino and Hispanic communities.