Tags: Walter B. Potter Fund For Innovation In Local Journalism

Savvy young journalists spend a week in small town newsrooms as 2020 RJI Potter Digital Ambassadors
March 5, 2020
For the third year, Missouri School of Journalism students spent one week of their winter break working alongside veteran journalists in small, community newspapers around Missouri as part of RJI’s Pottter Digital Ambassador program.
For Missouri community newspapers, Potter Ambassador Program has lasting impacts
March 5, 2020
During the past three years, about 20 Missouri newspapers have benefited from one-on-one help learning and honing various digital skills such as shooting mobile video or engaging with audiences on social media as part of the Potter Ambassador Program.
Lessons learned and questions raised during the Potter Listening Tour, Part 1
July 9, 2015
In 1987, I took over my family’s twice-weekly newspaper, which made me pay even more attention to stories about community journalism. One author didn’t think much of small-town newspapers. He dismissed them as “mere community bulletin boards.” I concluded
Potter Listening Tour
Potter listening tour of community newspapers begins this month
April 6, 2015
Walt Potter to visit community papers in Missouri as part of Potter Listening Tour.