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

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 · 3h

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!

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RJI Innovation Team @innovationrji.bsky.social · 17h

" 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.

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RJI Innovation Team @innovationrji.bsky.social · 22h

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 · 1d

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.

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

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 · 1d

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

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

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 · 2d

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.”

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Anonymous portraiture

The presence in absence.

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

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.“

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

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

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/InnovTeamNews

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

Anthropology and journalism are close kin. Both disciplines use similar methods to engage and build trust with communities. Join us for a two-part workshop for reporters to refine existing methods and learn new ones from anthropology. Register here: bit.ly/AnthroJournoWorkshop

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

How to find grant money for your next local reporting project rjionline.org/news/how-to-...

How to find grant money for your next local reporting project

Funders, application tips and getting started.

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

Today is the day! The launch Science Reporting Navigator, a learning course to help journalists integrate science into every beat. Check it out: rjionline.org/news/introdu...

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

Newsletter A/B tests you can try — and how to set it up rjionline.org/news/newslet...

Newsletter A/B tests you can try — and how to set it up

Experimenting by adding links and generating AI summaries for newsletters.

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

The local news go bag platform helps prepare and support local newsrooms, journalists, and communities facing and reporting on natural and environmental disasters rjionline.org/news/introdu...

Introducing the Local News Go Bag Toolkit

This resource provides news outlets with a set of tools and templates to begin preparing and refining their emergency coverage.

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

We cover four ways a youth media program can benefit a newsroom:

Create a talent pipeline
Train reporters and producers as editors
Help meet source and story diversity goals
Introduce your station to new funding opportunities

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Making the case for youth media to newsroom leadership

Why youth media is worth the investment.

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

RJI Fellow Rebecca Ritzel was a guest in the Principles of Journalism in Democracy class. For the next year, Ritzel will create an online repository of resources for newsrooms that want to pursue nontraditional lines of funding for arts coverage. rjionline.org/person/rebec...

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

Ryan Restivo speaks about YESEO App at ONA25! Ryan built YESEO through this RJI fellowship, and is continuing to add features and updates to help journalists optimize their SEO through his free, easy to use slack app. www.yeseo.app

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

Week one: trust-building and interviewing techniques.
Week two: observation methods and bias checks. Between sessions, try the tools on your beat. In session two, get personalized coaching on what worked and what didn’t. 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.

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