By ILINA GHOSH Staff reporter Ryerson Journalism Research Centre (RJRC) scholars are working on projects ranging from an investigation into why some police departments refuse to release the names of people who are killed as a result of violence or misadventure, to an examination of local news poverty in communities outside the country’s major media centres. Much of the research supports the RJRC’s News and Community Research Initiative, said April Lindgren, the RJRC’s academic director. “News plays a powerful role in shaping how people in communities see and relate to one another and RJRC researchers are exploring this from a…