And Europeans, too, for that matter. An op-ed was recently published in the Wall Street Journal with the title “Can U.S. Automakers Compete With Chinese EVs While Focusing on Gas Guzzlers?” Following Betteridge’s law of headlines, which states “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by ... [continued]
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I’ve found my new favorite machine, or gadget. I’m not sure how to classify it. It’s the new BLUETTI Elite 10 Mini Power Station. It’s a 200W, 128Wh portable power station that is super easy to take around, and cute. We’ve had a large BLUETTI EP500 Pro for a couple ... [continued]
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2024 was the year Tesla’s long-term story changed dramatically. Instead of growing, growing, growing … well, just write that 12 times in total … 2024 was the year Tesla saw an annual sales decline. It was the first time since the Model S was released that Tesla’s sales dropped year ... [continued]
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The recent US decision to block new certifications for Chinese drones is being framed as a narrow national security measure. In practice it is a broad economic choice with long shadows. The policy does not ground existing drones or seize equipment. It works through certification attrition, cutting off the ability ... [continued]
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2025 at RJI has been a year of bringing people together to address the many challenges and changes facing the industry. As competitive as journalists can be, the future of news is not a race; it’s a collective effort to support a fundamental pillar of democracy and keep local communities informed, and never has that been more apparent than in this year’s body of work from RJI and its constellation of partners.
Take, for example, the Science Reporting Navigator, a collaboration with The Open Notebook to help journalists in any and all beats incorporate clear and accurate science into their reporting. Or the Early-Career Guide to Newsroom Success, a partnership with industry veteran Rachel Lobdell to help young journalists acclimate more quickly and easily to the unique pressures and expectations of the business of journalism.
RJI has taken part in many such collaborations this year, from a Public Policy and Journalism hub that charts how state legislatures are working in support of local news to projects built by the RJI Fellows — including a toolkit that helps reporters convert data into sound to provide audiences with an immersive and engaging experience. These resources are designed to serve not just as philosophical guidance or thought provocation but as tools that newsrooms can put into action to grow audience engagement, produce accurate and authentic reporting and improve the health of their bottom line.
Insights from all this experimentation, research and testing were shared through more than 150 posts on RJIonline.org, featuring contributions from people working all over the country to build a strong, sustainable future for local journalism. That work seemed to resonate: RJI’s newsletters and social media following grew in 2025, and Innovation in Focus — a monthly series dedicated to helping news outlets experiment with solutions to prevalent issues — shifted into overdrive to work with a total of 47 newsrooms. (For a breakdown of 2025’s Innovation in Focus highlights, click here.)
Uniting it all was an ethos that could serve as a blueprint for how local journalism moves forward at a time when divisions define public discourse: an embrace of the value in bringing bright minds together to turn challenges into opportunities. The Community-Centered Symposium brought together 30 journalists to brainstorm solutions for local news. A host of industry experts also met in October at RJI, where — under Chatham House rules — they discussed the future of journalism as it related to AI, business models and evolving audience behaviors.
And in March, broadcast managers shared their experiences with experimentation around four-day workweeks to spark conversation about a potential solution to burnout. The conference built on RJI’s research from last year — conducted in partnership with SmithGeiger — highlighting the need for more flexible shifts and a more supportive workplace culture.
Of course, RJI also reached out to meet people where they were. The Potter Digital Ambassadors program once again sent Missouri School of Journalism students to community newsrooms all over the state to build and execute stronger digital strategies. And behind the scenes, something bigger was brewing. Starting with the upcoming iteration in January 2026, the program will exist in four additional states: Iowa, Kansas, Tennessee and Vermont.
The program’s expansion adds to the list of projects that got their start at RJI before growing into larger-scale ventures. Last year, Trusting News — a research-driven effort to help journalists reconnect with their communities — went independent after eight years of growth with RJI, and Philadelphia’s Center for Gun Violence Reporting was incubated during founder Jim MacMillan’s 2019-2020 RJI Fellowship.
Another wide-reaching effort founded on collaboration was the News Media Help Desk, a hub for resources, expert assistance and fractional services for local newsrooms. Developed in partnership with the Local Media Consortium (LMC), the Help Desk launched in December and features the RJI Learning Center’s case studies, how-to guides, expert articles and a tools database alongside the LMC’s existing Digital On-Demand Services program.
With 2026 on the horizon and the challenges facing community journalism as pressing as ever, there is work ahead. But thanks to a growing number of partners and stakeholders invested in the future of a well-informed public, RJI is well-positioned to make even bigger impacts in the coming year.
Fitzgerald, Austin (2025, Dec. 23). RJI in 2025: The year in review. Reynolds Journalism Institute. Retrieved from: https://rjionline.org/news/rji-in-2025-the-year-in-review/
In response to my article last week titled “EV Enthusiasts Are Losing The Battle In The USA Right Now,” Mike Shurtleff provided a short but pointed response. Here was his comment: “EV Enthusiasts Are Losing The Battle In The USA Right Now” …BUT WINNING THE BEV WAR …GLOBALLY …RIGHT NOW!!! Get out of ... [continued]
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A recent study published in Nature found that participants’ preferences in real-world elections swung by up to 15 percentage points after conversing with a chatbot. The researchers concluded that, as AI models become more sophisticated, they hold a sizable persuasive advantage for powerful actors behind our screens. Bots have a ... [continued]
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Welcome to Locally Sourced, a biweekly Covering Climate Now newsletter for journalists working to localize the climate story. Share this newsletter with colleagues and journalism students interested in localizing the climate story.
It’s been a year.
2025 brought yet more examples of the climate consequences of our carbon pollution — boosting wildfire threats; supercharging hurricanes; worsening record heat; forever changing livelihoods, economies, and communities around the world. The ripples from these climate impacts are becoming more like waves — influencing everything from public health to transportation and everything in between. Exploring these local impacts of climate change is the mission of this newsletter.
Your work highlighting the changes happening in our backyards has helped our shared audience better understand how this scary, amorphous topic called climate change impacts their daily lives. I hope that these dispatches filled with resources, tips, and stories we like have been useful for your own reporting.
As the year comes to a close, I’d like to highlight some of my favorite issues, tips, and resources that you may have missed. Feel free to browse and get inspired for coverage topics to tackle in 2026. (Check out the full Locally Sourced archive on Covering Climate Now’s site.)
I’d also like to personally extend an invitation to any journalists in the US working in local print, digital, radio, and TV newsrooms to join the winter cohort of our free training program, The Climate Newsroom. Find out more about this virtual training opportunity, and apply on our website — I hope to see you there when we start in late January.
We’ll also be back then with a new issue of Locally Sourced filled with new ideas, tips, and resources to help you with your reporting. Until then, have a wonderful holiday and a great new year — you all deserve it.
— David Dickson
CCNow’s TV engagement coordinator and meteorologist
AI and Data Centers: With AI here to stay, powered in the US by over 4,000 energy-hungry data centers, dive into the issues communities will have to contend with as this technology becomes even more prevalent.
Heat Pumps: Though stunted by the recent rollbacks of federal incentives, heat pump adoption is booming. Check out why this modern technology is having a moment and why people are making songs about it.
Air Transportation: Understand why aviation doesn’t have any (feasible) clean fixes compared to other transportation methods like cars and trains.
Shoreline Loss: Over a billion people, roughly 15% of the world’s population, live within a few miles of a coast and bear the brunt of climate change’s most dramatic impacts.
Climate Migration: Examine the complex ways climate change drives displacement and migration across the world.
Emergency Alerts: Fires in Maui and Los Angeles have shown that simply sending out a warning isn’t enough. Explore how emergency alert systems must improve as climate change fuels more frequent and destructive disasters.
“Lived experience is expertise. When reporting on climate change and Indigenous or other communities with strong ties to the land, don’t relegate local voices to colorful anecdotes while turning to researchers for the ‘real’ evidence.”
– Olga Loginova, a multimedia journalist covering climate displacement and justice
“Focus on things that are actually available. Prototypes of technologies that could be a game changer for the climate are dime-a-dozen. I often tell PR types that if I can’t buy it in Walmart, I won’t write about it.”
– Marco Chown Oved, a climate reporter with the Toronto Star
“Listen to experts — don’t parrot them. Experts are there to explain and clarify, not dictate the narrative. Try to connect their insights to people and communities to tell a moving story.”
– Aman Azhar, a journalist with Inside Climate News
A special thank you to all the journalists, researchers, and experts who have contributed to Locally Sourced this year — your insights have been invaluable!
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Young people in Kenya tell Nick Ferris why the agriculture sector – crucial to the national economy and to keep the country fed – is becoming less appealing as the impacts of climate change escalate
INGLESIDE, Texas—The rediscovery of an ancient settlement site, sandwiched between industrial complexes on Corpus Christi Bay, has spurred a campaign for its preservation by Native American groups in South Texas.
Met Office says temperatures are tracking ahead of 2022 after year of heatwaves and drought, though late cold spell could yet intervene
Forecasters say 2025 is “more likely than not” to break the record for the hottest year in the UK since records began, after a summer of heatwaves and drought followed by a mild autumn.
According to the Met Office, the official forecaster, the mean temperature for 2025 is tracking well ahead of the previous highest year, set in 2022. However, a colder spell expected from Christmas until the new year makes it too close to call definitively.
Continue reading...Our 20 favourite pieces of in-depth reporting, essays and profiles from the year
Victor Pelevin made his name in 90s Russia with scathing satires of authoritarianism. But while his literary peers have faced censorship and fled the country, he still sells millions. Has he become a Kremlin apologist?
Continue reading...A month ago, media all over the internet went crazy repeating the following headline (or a similar one) over and over: “IEA scraps Peak Oil, says oil demand will continue growing until 2050.” All this oil-positive hype was a result of the IEA’s World Energy Outlook for 2025. This report ... [continued]
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Trump Administration “pauses” fully permitted offshore wind projects, escalating its war on clean energy. WASHINGTON, DC — The Trump Administration announced today that it has paused leases on all offshore wind projects that are under construction. The move follows a court ruling that implementing the Administration’s ban on wind energy permits ... [continued]
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Trump’s Department of the Interior just halted construction on all five offshore wind projects underway in the United States. The pauses impact these projects: Vineyard Wind 1, Revolution Wind, Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, Sunrise Wind and Empire Wind 1. In response, Legislative Director Melinda Pierce released the following statement: “Blocking ... [continued]
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Proposed rules would undermine nation’s most successful conservation law Washington D.C. — More than 380,000 Americans, including 17,000 Sierra Club supporters, submitted comments in opposition to a set of proposed rules from the Trump administration that would roll back protections for imperiled animal and plant species across the United States and undermine ... [continued]
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Community, health, and environmental groups filed a lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration’s exemptions that allow coke ovens to keep spewing harmful pollutants. Coke ovens, which superheat coal to produce coke used in the steelmaking process, are a major source of hazardous air pollution that include toxic chemicals and ... [continued]
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SUPERIOR, Wisconsin — On Friday, in a Minnesota Public Utilities Commission filing by Minnesota Power, the company announced that it will withdraw from the proposed Nemadji Trail Energy Center (NTEC) gas plant project, which it had been developing with Dairyland Power Cooperative (based in Wisconsin) and Basin Electric Power Cooperative (based ... [continued]
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On December 22, President Donald Trump finally ordered a halt to construction activity at the 2.6-gigawatt Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project. What took you so long, Donald? Trump has been threatening the US offshore wind industry with total destruction ever since January, one notable exception being the Virginia project. Somehow, ... [continued]
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Francisco Shi has a problem. He has a lot of spare parts left over from his battery building project. You can read here about his home power plant constructed from BYD Atto 3 electric vehicle batteries from wrecked cars. The answer? Create a Super i-MiEV, “hot up” the old Mitsubishi ... [continued]
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This year marked the point where hydrogen transportation stopped being a future tense conversation and became an accounting exercise. Across light duty vehicles, buses, trucks, trains, mining equipment, refueling infrastructure, and even aviation, withdrawals outpaced commitments. These were not isolated pilots failing at the margins. They were coordinated retreats spread ... [continued]
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This site is focused on cleantech for a reason. So many people are champions of cleantech because we want to protect human life and safety (and also life on Earth beyond humans). Every tech site covers solar and EVs now, because tehy’re simply “cool new tech.” Every automotive site covers ... [continued]
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The US government is determined to exterminate climate science -- a move that will make America irrelevant.
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BEVs represented 37% of the total Chinese car market in November. We saw plugins score another million-plus sales in November (1.3 million plugins in a 2.2-million-unit overall market, down 8% YoY), but growth has been slowing down, with November showing only a 4% increase over November 2025. Digging deeper into ... [continued]
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An Interior Department statement did not detail the national security risks. It's the administration's latest pus to hobble offshore wind and limit renewable energy sources.
(Image credit: Carolyn Kaster)
Zambia’s grid is mostly powered by renewables. 87% of its installed capacity, which now stands at around 3.9GW, is from renewables. In terms of the contribution from renewables to electricity generation, about 93% of the renewable component is from hydro, and 6% from solar. Overall, renewables contributed 89% of the ... [continued]
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November saw plugin EVs take 38.4% share of the UK auto market, up from 35.3% year-on-year. BEVs grew in volume by just 3.6% YoY, while PHEVs grew 15%. Overall auto volume was 151,154 units, down some 2% YoY. Tesla was the UK’s leading BEV brand for the month. November’s sales ... [continued]
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Restart of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa facility comes despite public opposition in Niigata, where many residents say safety concerns from Fukushima have not been resolved
When the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service attempted to delist grizzly bears during President Donald Trump’s first administration, its justification for doing so included the quality of grizzly habitat. Under the roadless rule, which prevents new thoroughfares from being built in some of the wildest corners of national forests, the mountainous areas and remote watersheds the bears depend on were ostensibly safe from development.
November saw plugin EVs take 98.4% share in Norway, up from 94.9% year on year. BEVs alone took 97.6% share. Overall auto volume was 19,889 units, up some 70% YoY. The Tesla Model Y was the best-selling vehicle in November. November’s auto market saw combined EVs take 98.4% share in ... [continued]
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When President Donald Trump decided to stop practically the entire US offshore wind industry in its tracks, he achieved the expected outcomes in terms of lost jobs and missed opportunities to harvest more kilowatts from the sea. Nevertheless, the global wind industry continues to flex its muscles, and the latest ... [continued]
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India has been somewhat disappointing in its transportation electrification. It’s a bit funny, or strange, since the country announced several years ago it was going to be the first 100% electric nation, and it is ridiculously far away from that while Norway is basically already there and China is more ... [continued]
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Hyundai Motor unveiled two documentary films showcasing the achievements of its cooperation with the UN World Food Programme (WFP) across 12 countries One film sheds light on WFP’s operations in the Philippines and the role of donated Hyundai IONIQ 5 electric vehicles (EVs) in those efforts The other film shows ... [continued]
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Waymo has gotten into the holiday spirit and is trying to attract more riders — or at least reward and brighten the days of existing riders — with a special Mariah Carey holiday mode. “We’re thrilled to launch our latest artist collaboration with award-winning global superstar, songwriter, singer, best-selling author ... [continued]
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For all the doom and gloom settling over the vehicle electrification movement in the US, a few bright spots continue to seep through. The latest news involves a new EV from the California-based global automaker Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. — wait, Faraday who? The Long Road To Faraday Future ... [continued]
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New electric cars from BMW and Mercedes target the hottest segment of the new car market -- family capable SUVs.
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