The 2023-24 RJI Fellows demo their toolkits, tools, platforms and resources.

Tamoa Calzadilla built the bilingual Guide for Journalists Covering Latino and Spanish-Speaking Communities. This practical resource helps journalists improve their reporting and better identify and counter mis-disinformation in Spanish that specifically targets these communities.

Jen Mizgata created the Building News Culture training, which provides actionable advice, templates and case studies for organizational policies, practices and programs which helps news leaders build more sustainable and caring work cultures. bit.ly/BuildNewsCulture
Maria Arce built ARENA a toolkit for journalists to learn to work with and become radio amateurs, also known as ham radio operators, to assist in times of natural disasters.

Ariel Zych built the Getting Started with Sensitivity Professionals toolkit to assist newsrooms in sourcing, selecting, compensating, and working with editors whose responsibility is to prevent the marginalization of specific communities and identities.

Arjuna Soriano built the Community Sports Reporting toolkit and playbook. It provides step by step instructions for newsrooms to work with community reporters through SMS communication to produce high-value high school and community league sports coverage for newsrooms with limited resources.

Kate Maxwell built the local news go bag platform which helps prepare and support local newsrooms, journalists, and communities facing and reporting on natural and environmental disasters.

Celia Wu built an open-source Google Chrome extension and how-to guide that shows you how to build your own chrome extension version of your style guide.

Stacy Feldman, built the Pop-up Community Newsroom Toolkit to help small local news organizations create pop-up newsrooms with — and for — their communities. This tool helps news organizations increase their ambition and impact, while providing emerging journalists or non-journalists the opportunity to be news shapers and make a difference in their cities and towns.

https://rjionline.org/fellowship-class/2023-2024/