Journalism students, with innovative ideas, who are studying in the U.S. can compete for cash prizes up to $10,000.
The Donald W. Reynold’s Journalism Institute (RJI), at the Missouri School of Journalism, is accepting ideas to improve news literacy as entries for the 2024 RJI Student Innovation Competition. The institute generates and tests new techniques and new thinking that promise to improve journalism.
Students can work in teams to create anything, low tech or high tech, either a game, an app, an event or a partnership with a local news organization that would help people understand what journalists do and how they do it.
Students must create a plan for how they will implement their ideas over a three month period. The plan should include the necessary steps, milestones and an explanation of how they plan to measure success at the end of implementation.
The first, second and third place winners will receive US$10,000, US$2,500 and US $1,000, respectively.
The deadline is Oct. 16.