Rural Revenue Transformation Workshop draws rural news leaders together to generate ideas and put them into practice

Rural Revenue Transformation Workshop draws rural news leaders together to generate ideas and put them into practice: this Reynolds Journalism Institute mixer at RJI is listed for April 30, 2026, using a date from RJI’s coverage. Leaders from Appalachia to Alaska identified revenue challenges and actionable ideas for sustainable rural news; RJI Director of Innovation Kat Duncan prioritized geographically rural organizations without larger-organizational support, providing hotel rooms, two meals daily and some travel scholarships to address access barriers. Attendees welcomed the rural focus over costly, hard-to-reach conferences and ill-fitting revenue advice; Amy McCleese Nichols led mixed-methods community mapping, while Athens County Independent co-founder Corinne Colbert stressed rural news deserts and ghost papers, and Duncan emphasized alternatives to TikTok campaigns, galas, festivals and paywalls (source photos: Kat Duncan).

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