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RJI: The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute is a world-class center for researching and testing new models of journalism.

Columbia, MO
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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
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Fake viral footage is spreading alongside the real horror in Ukraine. Here are five ways to spot it. Via @ConversationUS @QUT .
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. @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.
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. @sisiwei : I’m redesigning brainstorming for asynchronous participation and I love it.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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Congrats to the winners of the 2022 RJI Student Innovation Competition. 1. @danacassidy_ , @UF , $10,000. 2. WatchDogs: Katey Williams, Mia Schaffel, Kendall Porter, Kayla Nguyen, @uoregon , $2,500. 3. Coasting Mastodons: Joshua Schipper, @GoMastodons , $1,000.
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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?”
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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.
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Public radio show @SciFri launches campaign on its social media channels to combat misinformation #RJIFellowship #ScienceFriday
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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
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Meet the 2022-2023 RJI Fellows. They're tackling a wide range of issues in the industry related to diversity, technology, youth development and grassroots engagement. @terabithia4 @BethFrancesco @mary_heisey @KKupferer @CraftOurStory @tlpix #RJIFellows #RJIFellowships
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7 years
Live: Creating Value Outside Traditional Pay Models @johnhall @a_purbasari ​ Lauren Lawley @successmagazine
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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
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. @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.
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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.
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Congrats to @jarrad_tweets , one of our new 2018-19 RJI Fellows, who'll develop a digital resource guide offering best practices, ethical considerations, tools for visual journalists #RJIFellowships #docfilmmaking #editorialvideo
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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
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. @TamoaC : Seven steps to detect disinformation created with AI. When in doubt, the recommendation is to not publish or amplify potential disinformation.
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. @MUJschool launches new online learning tool for middle school and high school teachers who want to teach/revamp their journalism and stratcomm lessons. #NewsLiteracy #JournalismEthics #AudienceEngagement #Storytelling #Reporting
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6 years
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
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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
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8 years
Watch how 3 journalists spent 4 months assessing #AppleWatch as tool. 1m42s @Lauren_Slome @shealeyy @chrismathews52
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4 years
Local journalism needs a funding pipeline. Here's why.
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5 years
The @guardian will be using fewer polar bears and more people to illustrate its coverage of the climate emergency. Here's why. #ClimateJournalism #ClimateChange @climatevisuals
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2 years
Need help with goal planning? This new series by @kimbui is for you. Here are three attributes of good goal frameworks.
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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
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. @mary_heisey @KKupferer : 11 tips for facilitating a youth media workshop with youth who are incarcerated in your area.
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Congratulations to a digital news preservation team at RJI and @MizzouLibraries that were awarded a $250K grant from @MellonFdn to help ensure the survival of today’s digital news record. #SaveNews #JDNA #DodgingTheMemoryHole
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Unveiled today: Prison Journalism Navigator, a set of resources from @prisonjourn to help newsrooms collaborate with prison journalists. #RJIFellows #RJIFellowships
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"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
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. @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?
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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
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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
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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?
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Herstory: Listen to 34 female journalists' stories about fighting for gender equality. #WomenJournoReads #Journalism @womenjournos
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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 :
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4 years
. @newsproduct  Alliance launches today. NPA offers a community for people who work in news product management.
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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
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In dire danger, Afghan journalists need global support. Via @IJnet .
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Writing tools for non-native English speaking journalists. Via @IJNet @critalks .
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We look forward to seeing the progress you'll make at the new Center for Gun Violence Reporting in Philadelphia. #GunViolence #MediaLiteracy #RJIFellows
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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.
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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.
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3 years
5 things sustainable journalism organizations have in common. Via @IJNet
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. @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
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9 years
Thirteen cool ideas from the Washington Post/Embedly hackathon http://t.co/iqnVUZ35S8
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RJI Fellow @saraquinn 's project will help newsrooms struggling to produce quality visuals. #Photojournalism #LocalNews @NPPA
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How to use Reddit in your reporting. Via @IJNet
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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
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RJI's @ebonyreed named to @ONA board of directors. She'll begin her two-year term on Jan. 1.
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. @njokichege , director of the pioneering @AKUMediaFutures in Kenya, speaks about the future of journalism in East Africa. Via @risj_oxford . #Innovation #VR #AI #MediaTrends
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An inside look at @NewsyVideos : Multi-source #journalism and the rise of video. http://t.co/TebTSGCS
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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.
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Congrats to Simon Galperin, 2018-2019 RJI Fellow.
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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.
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How do we win back the under 35s? Via @journalismnews #News #Journalism #Engagement
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Congrats to 2019-20 RJI Fellow @leezeltanglao on her new position with @dallasnews .
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. @a_purbasari @FastCompany participates in a Revenue Models That Work panel @RJI @MUjschool . Watch live #RJIrevenue
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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
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Nine ways to build trust with your sources. Via @IJNet .
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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.
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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
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. @SarahMidMO @StoryUpStudios spoke about the potential of #WebVR to add depth to the internet. We'll post video this week #RJIDistribution
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8 ways to build your newspaper’s digital reader revenue. Via @risj_oxford @NiemanReports
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. @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.
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App allows users to interact, engage through audio recordings. How can journalists use it? @mignano tells us #radio
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"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.
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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 .
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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 .
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. @scifri tackles misinformation with socially shareable resources #climatechange #RJIFellowship
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"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
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