Report for America presented awards to journalists in a dozen categories and named a Mentor of the Year at its inaugural Local News Awards program, held virtually, June 25. Among the evening’s top winners was The Columbus Dispatch’s Ceili Doyle, who took home Dispatch of the Year honors for her piece “Against the tide:
Supporters commit nearly $5M this week toward a $15M year-end goal; challenge other philanthropic partners to match the commitment Today, Report for America shared plans to expand its efforts to eliminate America’s news deserts with support from a diverse network of philanthropists. To reach its aim of placing a reporter in every community, Report for
The GroundTruth Project, home to Report for America, stands with AAPI community A series of mass shootings occurred at three Atlanta-area massage parlors on March 16. Eight people — Soon Chung Park, Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, Yong Yue, Delaina Ashley Yaun, Paul Andre Michels, Xiaojie Tan and Daoyou Feng — were killed, six of
Report for America today announced two key leadership promotions: Kim Kleman to senior vice president of Report for America, and Alison Bethel McKenzie to vice president of corps excellence. The promotions reflect the nonprofit program’s growth and success in its efforts to place journalists into local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues and communities “The
Report for America today announced $500,000 in support from Lumina Foundation of Indianapolis. Report for America is a national service program that places journalists into local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues and communities. Over the next two years, Lumina’s grant will help support Report for America corps members covering issues pertaining to racial justice.
Report for America is expanding its support to more than 200 newsrooms across the country for 2021-2022. Read more. Below is the full network, including the new newsrooms and those that are continuing for a second or third year. Report for America has opened applications for more than 100 positions. View them here. Alaska Anchorage Daily
Report for America has announced the selection of 64 new local news organizations as host newsroom partners—expanding its support to more than 200 newsrooms across the country for 2021-2022. View all open newsroom positions, at new and current newsrooms, here. Our newly-selected host newsrooms and beats are: Alaska Fairbanks Daily News-Miner — Health care in rural
The GroundTruth Project, home of Report for America, is pleased to announce that the veteran news executive Susan Leath will serve as chief operating officer at a time of ambitious growth for the organization. Leath will be responsible for coordinating operations and guiding a growing staff in the build of GroundTruth’s award-winning global reporting initiatives
There are a lot of stereotypes about journalists, their beliefs and where they come from. The reality is that they come from all walks of life—to include military veterans who have traded in their tactical gear for microphones, cameras or the all-mighty pen. Report for America salutes those who’ve served in uniform, including our corps
Report for America—and a coalition representing more than 3,000 local newsrooms—today took the unusual step of backing a plan for the government to dramatically help local news while maintaining strong First Amendment safeguards. The proposal is backed by organizations representing weekly newspapers, nonprofit websites, Black newspaper publishers, Hispanic publishers, independent news websites, free speech advocates,