Dealine: October 16th 2023 | United States RJI Student Innovation Competition 2024
| Title: | United States RJI Student Innovation Competition 2024 |
| Organisation: | The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute |
| Fund/Benefit: | $10 000 |
| Deadline: | October 16th 2023 |
| Eligible countries: | All undergraduate students enrolled in American Universities |
Applications are now being accepted for the 2024 Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) Student Innovation Competition.
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The Challenge
- Make a tool that will allow a newsroom to assess the community effect of their news coverage. Traditional metrics like clicks, views, or visits should not be used to quantify an impact; instead, focus on how the news actually affects the communities it serves.
- Teams can develop anything, whether it be high-tech or low-tech, including games, print products, apps, events, series, widgets, and much more! Determine what works for your community by using your imagination.
- Make a plan for how you will carry out your idea over the next three months. As part of your entry, you must describe all essential procedures, checkpoints, and how you intend to determine success after implementation.
- The selection committee will choose the submissions’ finalists based on the quality of the planning, likelihood of success, and innovative, outside-the-box thinking.
Prizes
- $10,000 for first place.
- Place two: $2,500
- $1,000 for third place
Conditions for Eligibility
- A team may consist of one student or as many as four.
- Teams must wait until the competition is over to request further money for their project from their school or other organisations. For the approved reimbursement of project materials during the implementation phase, RJI will award up to $500 to each team. At the end of the competition, payment will be made all at once.
- Each team must have at least one student of journalism or communication.
- In order to implement the notion, students must complete all of the work themselves; faculty from the student’s institution may only offer advice.
- RJI must record final presentations, which must be given in English. RJI will remotely record each team’s presentation, which has a 10-minute time limit. Student teams will have two extra opportunities to record their presentations within the allotted 10 minutes if they exceed their time limit on the initial recording. Only 10 minutes of the final recording will be played for the judges and audience if they exceed the permitted 10 minutes on any of the three recordings.
- For the top three prizes, all team members must participate in the presentation and the judges’ Q&A.
- All undergraduate students enrolled in American universities are eligible to enter the tournament. Upon application, every team member must confirm their status as a student at a US college.
- Please be aware that if you have a student visa, your wins will likely have to be given to your university as a scholarship. In order for them to transfer your potential earnings, they will ask you to plan ahead and make the required arrangements with your university.
- None of the instructors, news partners, or collaborators will receive any money or rewards; instead, they will all go to the students who take part in the tournament.
- The contest will not claim any intellectual property rights or ownership over the projects or results.
Judging Standards
Five primary factors will be used to evaluate projects:
- How did the group come up with the concept? Was the determination of the viability and the need for the community based on study, data, and other considerations?
- Implementation: Was the project successfully carried out, did it reach its goals and overcome its obstacles?
- How was the project’s execution measured for success? How did the team assess its effectiveness and impact?
- Reach: Was the proposal developed with consideration for community accessibility, equity, and diversity? Could the concept be replicated and used in additional localities and newsrooms around the nation?
- Sustainability: Will the concept endure after the contest? Was it developed and put into use in a way that enables ongoing management, income, and/or growth?
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