RJI Projects
Local readers and the newsroom
New research explores online issues including: anonymous posts, editing for civility, and revealing journalists’ personal viewpoints.
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Remaking Newsrooms
How can you transform the culture, structure and routines of a newsroom and move it to a more participatory organization? How can you change what was print-centric into what is Web-centric? How can a new newsroom structure encourage and reward constant innovation? A project at one newspaper yields answers for newsrooms around the country.
New Media, Enduring Values
How can we ensure that the values of journalism endure in a digital world? How can we engage citizens and make our Web sites vibrant and successful? To explore these challenges, RJI formed a unique partnership with the Missouri School of Journalism and the Committee of Concerned Journalists. The goal was to work directly with media partners and explore innovative ways to carry the core principles of journalism into new media. A series of reports from media outlets will describe those results.
The Opinion Pool
As newspapers reduce staff and bloggers pick up readers, how can editorial writers leverage their deep connection to the community, harness digital media, drive readership and audience, generate revenue, and thus become a self-sustaining enterprise that helps make democracy work as it should? RJI partners with the National Conference of Editorial Writers and others to answer these questions.
Student Competitions
This year's competition, modeled off of last year's successful RJI-Adobe AIR Student Competition, will challenge students to develop, test and market native iPhone applications designed to improve the practice and the business of American journalism.
Rural Health Journalism Workshop Educates Reporters
Many rural residents have poor access to health care and, as a result, often have various health problems and challenges. But, journalists can help improve the situation by writing pieces to educate communities and raise awareness of these problems. RJI and the Association of Health Care Journalists hosted a workshop May 2-4 to teach journalists how best to serve rural populations. Hear about it from participants and presenters.
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Watching the Watchdog
The Columbia Missourian invited readers to discuss the state of the news media today.
Battered Justice
Journalism and law students successfully collaborate to help prosecute abusers and protect innocent victims of domestic violence.