RJI Insight: Fran Willis, CEO of Local Media Consortium, discusses how Digital on Demand Services — a new joint venture with RJI — will help news organizations reduce costs and grow revenue.
Introducing the 2024-2025 class of RJI Fellows, each of whom will work to create and test practical, free resources for journalists and newsrooms.
“Our 2024 RJI Fellows are going to build resources that are uniquely innovative, practical and vital to tackling current challenges and needs in community-centered journalism,” said Kat Duncan, director of innovation at RJI. “I’m excited to see their projects come to fruition and be utilized by journalists around the world.”
WATCH: RJI Executive Director Randy Picht speaks with SmithGeiger's Andrew Finlayson and Sam Walton about "The Burnout Crisis in Journalism: Solutions for Today's Newsroom."
RJI and SmithGeiger recently conducted a large-scale survey on burnout in the journalism industry. More than 1,100 active and former journalists responded. They released the results today.
Building on the results, RJI and SmithGeiger plan to work with newsrooms all over the country to turn the research into real action through workshops, seminars and partnerships designed to tackle burnout head-on. Let us know if you'd like to work with us. #JournalismBurnout #RJIBurnoutCrisis
Read: https://rjionline.org/news/addressing-burnout-in-journalism-means-flexible-shifts-more-supportive-culture-results-of-large-scale-survey-from-rji-and-smithgeiger/.
Quick view: Why the band Nickelback wants to talk about why everyone hates Nickelback.
Other topics this week include Kristen Welker's debut on NBC's "Meet the Press" and Jann Wenner's removal from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame board.
"Views of the News" is a roundtable discussion about the media with host Amy Simons, regular panelist Kathy Kiely and guest panelist Luke Capizzo, all professors at the Missouri School of Journalism.
Watch the full episode: https://www.kbia.org/show/views-of-the-news/2023-09-20/views-of-the-news-a-fresh-start-for-meet-the-press. #MissouriMethod #MizzouMade
RJI Insight: If your audience won’t come to you, maybe it’s time to think about going to your audience. RJI Executive Director Randy Picht speaks with David Beckford, founder and creative director of Dynasty Media, about a new pilot project from RJI, Dynasty Media and Minnesota Digital.
Meet our 2023-2024 RJI Fellows. Their innovative and practical projects range from teaching journalists how to work with amateur radio operators during natural disasters to improving the quality of reporting on Latino and Hispanic communities. #RJIFellows #RJIFellowships
Learn more: https://rjionline.org/news/introducing-the-2023-2024-rji-fellows/.
2023 Student Competition Awards Show
Eight student teams from across the country are finalists in the 16th annual RJI Student Innovation Competition. Each team is addressing a local need in their community through service journalism and related efforts that connect people with information in a new and efficient way.
The Missouri School of Journalism will host "Friends of the Facts: A News Literacy Fair" online beginning Monday, June 27. Meet and learn from national experts in the field of news literacy; brainstorm with teachers, librarians and community leaders. Here's a quick video by Professor Kathy Kiely, the J-School's Lee Hills Chair in Free-Press Studies, who introduces the fair and explains why you should participate. The four-day event is free, but registration is required. All sessions will be available for later viewing.
Read the schedule and register now: https://cvent.me/qMen2l.
Meet the 2022-2023 RJI Fellows:
— Beth Francesco
— Mary Heisey
— Tasmiha Khan
— Amy L. Kovac-Ashley
— Kelsey Kupferer
— Tara Pixley
— Ryan Restivo
— Nissa Rhee
They're tackling a wide range of issues in the industry related to diversity, technology, youth development and grassroots engagement. #RJIFellows #RJIFellowships
Neil Mera shares five examples of ways newsrooms can gain benefits from news archives.
Neil Mera shares some of the more creative uses of archived material he's seen during his research on news archives.
Untapped resource: In the first of three conversations, Neil Mera, 2019-2020 RJI Fellow, tells RJI Executive Director Randy Picht what he hopes to accomplish with his research on archiving and what's next for the business of news archives. The second conversation will post on Wednesday. #NewsArchives #RJIFellowships
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