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Tag: Walter B. Potter Fund for Innovation in Local Journalism

Genevieve Smith, left, and Trevor aVernon
January 27, 2025
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RJI’s Potter Ambassadors bring benefits of leading-edge education to Missouri news organizations

For the first time, students at the Missouri School of Journalism trained both newspapers and broadcast media organizations.

Shannon Worley (right) interviews employees and residents of Autumn Ridge Residences, a senior living community in Herculaneum, Missouri. By her side is Katelynn Mary Skaggs (center), digital marketing manager for Leader Publications and (left) Marie Stelling, director of community relations for Autumn Ridge Residences.
February 19, 2024
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RJI sends Potter Digital Ambassadors to enhance digital efforts at community newsrooms all over Missouri

Over the course of one week in early January, the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute once again sent students to community newsrooms all over Missouri as part of the Potter Digital Ambassadors Program.

L-R: Madison Hopkins, Josh Merchant, former intern Marco Schaden, Hilary Becker, Interim Publisher Jennifer Hack Wolf, Mili Mansaray, (Not pictured) Gary Enrique Bradley-Lopez. A Kansas City Beacon all-staff meeting in September 2022.
July 24, 2023
Potter Digital Ambassadors

2 Kansas City area news outlets show different paths toward nonprofit sustainability

The Beacon is 3 years old. The Northeast News of Kansas City is more than 90. They are part of a surge in nonprofit news outlets and funding.

Walt Potter Jr.
April 6, 2015
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Potter listening tour of community newspapers begins this month

Walter B. Potter Jr. — donor of the Missouri School of Journalism’s Walter B. Potter Fund for Innovation in Local Journalism — will be visiting community newspapers in Missouri this month and next as part of what’s known informally as The Potter Listening Tour. The tour name is inspired by trips politicians sometimes take to … Continued

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