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Cannabis reporters use science and some healthy skepticism to cover the beat
Some of the science is flawed or skewed. But there are studies out there to help you explain marijuana’s benefits and risks.
Reporting on a burning world
Better climate crisis reporting calls for learning about LandBack, taking a long view, and getting granular.
Lessons learned from social media about news engagement
How to build safe community spaces that turn readers into doers.
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.
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.
Talk Story, Write Story demonstration project is a success story
I used my Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute fellowship this year to test my hunch that trained volunteers could successfully help financially challenged high school students write their way into college scholarships. If my theory was correct, others could do what I had loved doing, mostly alone, for nearly two decades. My Talk Story, Write … Continued