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Kat Duncan

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United States
As seen in: Reynolds Journalism Institute, Medium, Poynter Online, San Francisco Chronicle, Editor & Publisher, Global Investigative Journalism Network, Skiddle, The Guestlist Network
RJI Director of Innovation @InnovationRJI. Visual journalist and editor. Los Angeleno, traveler, rescuer of dogs, hoarder of books.

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Kat Duncan’s Biography

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As Director of Innovation I run our innovative initiatives, programs and workshops. This includes the RJI Student Innovation Competition, the RJI Professional Fellowship program, the Student Innovation Fellowship program and the Women in Journalism Workshop. I manage the innovation team and partnership projects with local newsrooms, organizations and individuals. I also teach at the Missouri School of Journalism.

Our partnership projects are with organizations and newsrooms who want to work tog…

Kat Duncan’s Journalist Portfolio

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Here's everything we learned about source diversity auditing

Here's everything we learned about source diversity auditing

Chalkbeat and RJI heard from 58 U.S. journalists involved in source tracking Two years ago, Chalkbeat joined …

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RJI News Founders

RJI News Founders

In partnership with the Tiny News Collective, which supports the development of collaborative community newsr…

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Making Agenda Watch useful to journalists across the country

Making Agenda Watch useful to journalists across the country

Big Local News and the Reynolds Journalism Institute will make Agenda Watch a full-featured platform for jour…

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Building a platform for Black stories by Black journalists

Building a platform for Black stories by Black journalists

The NABJ Media Network will feature news stories written, shot, edited, and produced by members and contribut…

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Fostering Failure: Dubious arrests, damaged lives

Fostering Failure: Dubious arrests, damaged lives

The offenses begin innocently enough. Kids watching a movie smear cake frosting on each other. A Monopoly gam…

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A life divided: Mother paralyzed by falling tree branch in SF struggles after accident

A life divided: Mother paralyzed by falling tree branch in SF struggles after accident

Mother paralyzed by falling tree branch in SF struggles after accident The last thing she remembers is her da…

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Articles

Building a centralized content sharing platform for newsrooms - Editor and Publisher

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By Kat Duncan
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Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2025 10:00 am Though widgets, pixels and collaboratives have tried to make it easier for newsrooms to republish each other’s work; a centralized, efficient and reliable way to make it happen has proven elusive. Newsrooms are often emailing each other or cutting and pasting from each other’s websites to share and republish content; which is time consuming, clunky and requires having someone dedicated to discovering or sharing the work to get it republished.
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Building a centralized content sharing platform for newsrooms

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By Kat Duncan
| Reynolds Journalism Institute
Making discoverability, republishing and sharing a priority Big thanks to our Climate News Task Force partners who helped us ideate the feature list, conduct interviews and gather input to inform the needs assessment phase of this project. Though widgets, pixels and collaboratives have tried to make it easier for newsrooms to republish each other’s work; a centralized, efficient and reliable way to make it happen has proven elusive.
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12 community-centered news projects

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By Kat Duncan
| Reynolds Journalism Institute
From positivity polls to print editions and photo contests, newsrooms across the country tried a new-to-them idea Bay Area News Group / Mercury News | Jozef Syndicate | La Voz/Arizona Republi | Mirror Indy | LA Public Press | Planeta Venus | Austin Vida | Foothills Forum | Axios Boston | The Green Line | Canopy Atlanta | Minnesota Women’s Press In October 2024, 25 journalists from community-centered newsrooms and roles across the country came together at the Reynolds Journalism Institute.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

An unpaid internship doing data entry and photography for a weekly Irish publication in Boston.

What does it mean to be a journalist?

Connecting people, fostering understanding, keeping the powerful accountable, helping people tell their stories.

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

I prefer to be sent an email at duncank@rjionline.org. Then I can contact the person when I have a moment to speak with them about the idea.