Our spotlight today is on award-winning investigative journalist and RJI newsroom startup founder Nora Hertel. Nora's Project Optimist is a solutions-based reporting website covering everything from art to the environment in and around the greater Minnesota area.

Host: Randy Picht, Executive Director, Reynolds Journalism Institute
Guest: Nora Hertel, Founder, Project Optimist [https://www.projectoptimist.us]
Producer: Joanie Straub
Director/Editor: Travis McMillen

RJI Insight is recorded in the studio at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri. Visit our website: https://rjionline.org

#communitynews #journalism #minnesota