Congrats to
@danacassidy_
of
@UF
, who won $10,000 as the winner of the 2022 RJI Student Innovation Competition. This year's challenge was improving news literacy. Here's her winning entry: .
#NewsLiteracy
.
@kimbui
built what she lovingly calls "my not-too-secret Airtable of great journalists I want to hire." Here's how she uses her personal talent pipeline.
Ready to track source diversity in your newsroom?
@Chalkbeat
and RJI are preparing launch a new tracking tool. Here's how to sign up and use it for free.
The 2022 RJI Fellowship program is now accepting applications. Do you have an idea for an innovative project that addresses current gaps, challenges and needs in the journalism industry? Apply today.
#RJIFellows
#RJIFellowships
Congrats to 2018-19 RJI Fellow
@thensim0nsaid
, who'll address underperforming local news ecosystems by building special taxing zones--community information districts--that let geographic communities design, fund their ideal news sources
#RJIFellowships
Journalists are being are being shot, arrested, attacked. What can they do to stay safe during volatile assignments? Join us June 3 for a Q&A w/
@Reuters
photojournalist
@LeahMillis
, hostile environment awareness trainer Cath Mossom,
@NPPA
general counsel Mickey H. Osterreicher.
RJI is at
#ONA22
in Los Angeles! We're kicking things off with a hands-on workshop on expanding source diversity in newsrooms.
@emmacarew
: "Not enough organizations are asking themselves: what should we stop doing?”
The Better Gun Violence Reporting Summit, hosted by RJI Fellow Jim MacMillan, will be held Friday, Nov. 8, at
@WHYY
in Philadelphia. MacMillan is the leader of The Initiative for Better Gun Violence Reporting. You don’t have to be a journalist to attend.
Do rural GenZ teens see themselves in the news they consume? Now available to download: "Final Report: The News and Information Habits of Rural, Mid-Missouri Teenagers"
#GenZ
#newsdesert
#RJIFellow
@nico_gendron
International collaboration grants. Storytelling grants. Science journalism contest. These are among nine worldwide opportunities with deadlines in April. Via
@IJNet
.
Our new class of RJI Fellows will address ways to reach underserved audiences, improve the quality/reach of video and data-driven stories, coordinate coverage of breaking news and help high school students identify reliable sources of news
#RJIFellowships
.
@mujschool
Assoc Prof
@ebonyreed
, left, visits with
@nytimes
360 producer
@vedashastri
during a class visit. Several AR/VR/MR professionals are visiting Missouri classrooms as part of the RJI Innovation Series.
Congrats to the newest Watchdog Writers Group fellows:
@myafrazier
@MikeGrunwald
and Shoshana Walter (
@shoeshine
). Each receives a $50,000 annual stipend, which allows the fellows to write a book and mentor a
@mujschool
student.
WINNER! Gather Award in Community-Centered Journalism, Overall Excellence, Micro/Small Newsroom:
@borderless_mag
for How Borderless used field canvassers to reach Spanish speakers.
#OJA23
.
@TamoaC
: Seven steps to detect disinformation created with AI. When in doubt, the recommendation is to not publish or amplify potential disinformation.
"We must fundamentally reimagine journalism’s role and purpose in society," writes
@YvonneLeow
. "This conversation, particularly when it comes to
#LocalJournalism
, is long overdue."
Congratulations to
@merbroussard
, who's been selected as a 2018-19 RJI Fellow. She’s interested in future-proofing the news by establishing an archive for hard-to-save, born-digital content that can be viewed on future devices.
#RJIFellowships
Congrats to 2018-19 RJI Fellow
@tseymat
, who'll develop a tool to gather research on how audiences respond to VR content. This'll allow news orgs to improve immersive stories and advertisers to monetize this type of content more effectively
#RJIFellowships
Longmont, Colorado is considering a new way of funding news—through a proposed library-district tax. This idea builds on a model, the Community Information District, first proposed by
@thensim0nsaid
, 2018-19 RJI Fellow.
#LocalNews
#newsdeserts
Do you have an idea for a product that could benefit journalists, news organizations or the people who depend on them? Apply for 2023-2024 RJI Fellowship. There are two types. Deadline to apply is Friday, Feb. 3.
#RJIFellows
#RJIFellowships
"Our goal has always been to empower journalists to demonstrate credibility and earn trust day to day, and this (free) class is a 5-week introduction to what you can be doing in your own work," writes
@mayerjoy
, director of
@TrustingNews
. Deadline: Monday
"Even now, 91% of U.K. adults see or hear something on the BBC every week. ... Globally, the BBC attracts 468 million people per week and is the most trusted provider of news by some distance."
.
@papayathemariah
, co-founder and director of audience at
@LAPublicPress
, formed a community safety team for a recent public forum. What is the distinction between a community safety team and police presence?
Weihua Li is a data reporter at
@MarshallProj
. Here's how she uses data to tell stories and explain what's going on in the criminal justice system.
#DataJournalism
Congrats to
@madbair
, who's been selected as a 2018-19 RJI Fellow. She'll prototype a mobile news bulletin for working-class Latino immigrants in northern California, and develop tools to help others engage with underserved news audiences
#RJIFellowships
For the first time, the RJI student competition is open to all U.S. college students. The 2020 challenge: create a program, tool or prototype for photo, video or audio verification. First-place prize is $10,000. Do you know a student who should enter?
This summer, we launched the Instagram Local News Fellowship in partnership with the
#FacebookJournalismProject
. 22 college seniors and recent journalism grads tested IG strategies in newsrooms across the country. These are the results.
#IGNewsFellows
:
At last year’s
@ONA
conference, only two sessions focused specifically on AI. Fast forward to 2023, and it would be easier to count the sessions that didn’t involve AI. How will AI help journalists in the future? What tools are available now?
#AI
The bust of Donald W. Reynolds was masked up for the pandemic yesterday when I was clearing out my office at
@RJI
@MUJSchool
@Mizzou
. I’m so grateful to everyone who helped make for a priceless fellowship year and how they’ve set me up to take my work to new levels.
Listening is just the beginning. News outlets must also make changes to their editorial and engagement strategies in response to what their community says. Here’s how
@Borderless_Mag
changed its approach in response to what it heard from community members.
.
@nghertel
is the founder of The Optimist, a news startup focused on solution-focused journalism for rural communities in Minnesota. She's traveling the state, sharing her vision for solutions journalism and dialogue journalism.
#RJIFounders
@MnTheoptimist
Meet
@BridgetThoreson
@INN
, who'll be one of our session leaders at Women in Journalism Workshop 2022. The workshop will be held April 8-10, 2022. Register today.
#WIJW2022
Sarah Roelke, a 13-year-old Girl Scout in Fairfax County, Va., created a
@girlscouts
patch program to help young girls learn more about journalism. Check it out.
Meet this year's RJI Student Innovation Fellows, who'll with work with newsrooms across the U.S. this summer on projects focusing on new storytelling techniques, audience engagement strategies, delivery platforms and revenue opportunities.
Honored to be recognized by
@njspj
for my reporting on policing and public safety for
@aboutbloomfield
. Credit goes to my community and my peers for their guidance.
Congrats to
@morisy
, who joins the 2018-19 class of RJI Fellows. He'll deploy
@MuckRock
's latest tool, which is a re-usable crowdsourcing platform that helps newsrooms manage user submissions while helping turn raw docs into clean data sets
#RJIFellowships
The
@CoMissourian
started a topic-specific newsletter to provide readers easier access to its accurate and reliable
#journalism
on
#COVID19
. In the past week, the open rate has averaged nearly 50 percent. What else has the newsroom learned? Find out here.
Will you be able to locate or retrieve your digital news content in 20 years – or next week? New report from RJI and
@MizzouLibraries
outlines 14 steps to help preserve your born-digital content for the long term.
#PreserveNews
.
@IBGVR
is launching a new Center for Gun Violence Reporting in Philadelphia with funding from the Philadelphia COVID-19 Community Information Fund. The center will be led by
@JimMacMillan
, 2019-20 RJI Fellow and IBGVR founder.
"This misleading information undermines democratic institutions and affects the rights to vote, to health access, and other vital needs," writes RJI Fellow
@TamoaC
. Here's how
@factchequeado
is combating misinformation that affects Latino communities.
A local news collaborative in Northeast Ohio met a need for audiences by offering a free text-message course on how to access public records. Course was built by
@LindaAustin_
, journalism educator and 2017-18 RJI Fellow, and
@RachelDissell
. Via
@soljourno
.
Six steps news orgs can take now to "channel their pro-democracy mission statement into action, get good information to the people who need it most, and slow the spread of disinformation." Via
@taraemcg
@Poynter
.
"Instead of being about more, faster and everywhere, news needs to change to be better, more relevant and more representative," said
@JenniferBrandel
, CEO and co-founder of
@wearehearken
.
#DISummit