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Reynolds Journalism Institute team exploring practical innovation for community-centered journalism. Fellowships, programs, tools, workshops + more! bit.ly/rjiteam Innovation hub: bit.ly/innovrji Insta: instagram.com/innovationrji

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RJI Innovation Team @innovationrji.bsky.social · 11h

Deadline is OCTOBER 17! Enter the RJI Student Innovation Competition!

First place prize is $10,000.

Any US based college student/team is welcome to apply. rji.submittable.com/submit/33207...

RJI Innovation Team @innovationrji.bsky.social · 16h

Director of Innovation Kat Duncan will see you at the World Congress and Media Innovation Festival! Want to set up a 1-1 to talk fellowships, partnerships or programs? Email her!

RJI Innovation Team @innovationrji.bsky.social · 1d

Understanding the difference between substance use disorders and addiction rjionline.org/news/underst...

Understanding the difference between substance use disorders and addiction

The distinction is important, but sometimes gets blurred in media coverage.

RJI Innovation Team @innovationrji.bsky.social · 1d

Taking the first step: How to explore walking tours for your newsroom rjionline.org/news/taking-...

Taking the first step: How to explore walking tours for your newsroom

Consider these four factors during your first brainstorm.

RJI Innovation Team @innovationrji.bsky.social · 1d

Newsrooms should think big when it comes to tours, but start small and leverage product thinking. Separate ideation from execution, to give them both the time they deserve. rjionline.org/news/think-b...

Think big about tours, but start small

Use product thinking to connect with your audience in person.

RJI Innovation Team @innovationrji.bsky.social · 2d

Bendezú is the founder and executive director of Migrant Roots Media, a multilingual multimedia platform that seeks to uncover the root causes of global migration through the voices of migrants rjionline.org/news/rooted-...

Migrant Roots Media uproots migration narratives

Roxana Bendezú migrated to the United States for the first time at the age of 14 from Lima, Peru, and later returned at 20. Bendezú is the founder and executive director of Migrant Roots Media, a…

RJI Innovation Team @innovationrji.bsky.social · 2d

Immigrants across the U.S. face a confusing legal system where trust is easily abused. Some are tricked by notaries or consultants who falsely claim to be lawyers. rjionline.org/news/when-le...

When legal help becomes harm

When Luis Montellano (name anonymized for safety reasons) got a letter in the mail with a new Social Security number, he felt hopeful. A woman had promised she could fix his immigration status. She…

RJI Innovation Team @innovationrji.bsky.social · 2d

For us, a bridge role in a news organization is the responsibility of connecting two (or more) communities or audiences that have unequal access to power and decision-making processes. rjionline.org/news/the-bri...

The bridge role: How newsrooms can connect immigrant communities with decision-makers

We built an editorial product to promote change and connect communities that have unequal access to power.

RJI Innovation Team @innovationrji.bsky.social · 2d

And we're off! RJI Fellow Tara Francis Chan is taking us through care and accountability balancing in newsrooms at the Mental Health Journalism Summit

RJI Innovation Team @innovationrji.bsky.social · 3d

The outlet changed its business model to give journalists a “voice and a vote” rjionline.org/news/how-col...

How Colorado Sun let employees become their own bosses

The outlet changed its business model to give journalists a “voice and a vote.“

RJI Innovation Team @innovationrji.bsky.social · 3d

RJI Fellow Claudia Yaujar-Amaro is at Radically Rural this week sharing her amazing work with communities in Kansas. Read more about her work: rjionline.org/person/claud...

RJI Innovation Team @innovationrji.bsky.social · 3d

Director of Innovation Kat Duncan will be speaking about community centered innovation in journalism at the World Congress. Set up a 1-1 to talk to her about ourfellowships, working with our innovation team or our other programs!

RJI Innovation Team @innovationrji.bsky.social · 4d

" We do monthly events, everything from really small, intimate conversations with folks that are very maybe topic specific, or we go out into more rural parts of the state using this model called pop-up newsrooms." rjionline.org/news/creativ...

Creative experiments in fundraising, from shared proceeds to microgiving and countdown clocks

A conversation with Mariko Chang, Honolulu Civil Beat.

RJI Innovation Team @innovationrji.bsky.social · 4d

Join us to ask questions about hosting an RJI Student Innovation Fellow in your newsroom this summer! bit.ly/Summer2026Q-A

RJI Innovation Team @innovationrji.bsky.social · 4d

Building a civic health guide that inspires action and education rjionline.org/news/buildin...

Building a civic health guide that inspires action and education

Lessons learned from creating Sioux Falls 101.

RJI Innovation Team @innovationrji.bsky.social · 5d

Enter the RJI Student Innovation Competition! First place prize is $10,000. Any US based college student/team is welcome to apply. rji.submittable.com/submit/33207...

RJI Innovation Team @innovationrji.bsky.social · 5d

Educating readers, listeners, and viewers about drugs, risks, and their effects — without overstating threats rjionline.org/news/coverin...

Covering the drug supply, risks and trends

Educating readers, listeners, and viewers about drugs, risks, and their effects—without overstating threats

RJI Innovation Team @innovationrji.bsky.social · 5d

Subscribe to our monthly innovation newsletter to keep up with all our deadlines, programs and opportunities! bit.ly/innovnewsrji

RJI Innovation Team @innovationrji.bsky.social · 6d

We built an editorial product to promote change and connect communities that have unequal access to power. rjionline.org/news/the-bri...

The bridge role: How newsrooms can connect immigrant communities with decision-makers

We built an editorial product to promote change and connect communities that have unequal access to power.

RJI Innovation Team @innovationrji.bsky.social · 6d

From ethnographic interviews to semiotic mapping: Small newsrooms can do big things, you just need the right tools. rjionline.org/news/report-...

Report like an anthropologist

From ethnographic interviews to semiotic mapping: Small newsrooms can do big things, you just need the right tools.

RJI Innovation Team @innovationrji.bsky.social · 7d

If you’re emailing a scientist, you’ll find an email template ready to copy, paste, and customize. If you’re reporting on a new study, you can complete a worksheet to help you construct a rough draft with the key elements in place. rjionline.org/news/introdu...

Introducing the Science Reporting Navigator

Use the navigator to help you integrate science into any story.

RJI Innovation Team @innovationrji.bsky.social · 7d

Read about how Honolulu Civil Beat put the fukubukuro in fundraising rjionline.org/news/creativ...

Creative experiments in fundraising, from shared proceeds to microgiving and countdown clocks

A conversation with Mariko Chang, Honolulu Civil Beat.

RJI Innovation Team @innovationrji.bsky.social · 8d

In our workshops, students have shared images from anonymous portrait sessions asking, “Is this anonymous enough?” To which we respond: “Why are you asking us? Ask the individual in the photograph.”

rjionline.org/news/anonymo...

Anonymous portraiture

The presence in absence.

RJI Innovation Team @innovationrji.bsky.social · 8d

The outlet changed its business model to give journalists a “voice and a vote” rjionline.org/news/how-col...

How Colorado Sun let employees become their own bosses

The outlet changed its business model to give journalists a “voice and a vote.“

RJI Innovation Team @innovationrji.bsky.social · 9d

Help RJI Fellow Claudia Amaro learn the needs of your newsroom bit.ly/amarosurvey