Tag: Innovation in Focus
Spreading hope and expanding community through physical mail
A conversation with Katie Hawkins-Gaar.
RJI Student Innovation Fellows to spark innovation at four newsrooms around the country
Four international master’s students at the Missouri School of Journalism have been chosen for the 2026 class of Student Innovation Fellows at the School’s Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI).
Building a syllabus companion to help educators integrate podcasts into their classrooms
A conversation with Jenna Spinelle and Brandon Stover.
No-code tools to build a podcast explorer for educators
Experimenting with free tools to organize episodes into a resource educators can use.
RJI in 2025: The year in review
2025 at RJI has been a year of bringing people together to address the many challenges and changes facing the industry.
This year we launched 16 short-term experiments with newsrooms across the country
From personal ads to web scraping and revenue streams; here’s what we learned
Creating a directory of job listings for public media
A conversation with Alex Curley.
Efficient ways to collect information for a community directory
Experimenting with tools that scrape websites, collect data and format it efficiently.
Going beyond traditional surveying to map community assets
Highlight community resources and stakeholders through interactive mapping.
Creative experiments in fundraising, from shared proceeds to microgiving and countdown clocks
A conversation with Mariko Chang, Honolulu Civil Beat.