COLUMBIA, Mo. (July 31, 2023) – The Missouri School of Journalism today announced a $2.47 million grant from the Walton Family Foundation in support of the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, a network of journalists that provides coverage of agriculture, water and environmental issues centered around the Mississippi River Basin to news
To encourage more investigative reporting in local newsrooms and to help local reporters hone those skills, Report for America is partnering with Investigative Editing Corps to oversee up to 10 projects over the next two years in its host newsrooms. Today, the organizations are announcing the first five newsroom partners, which were selected among newsrooms
Report for America brought together 14 communities last week to launch a history-making effort to catalyze news funding for communities across America. The Community News Fund Workshop brings together for the first time news and philanthropy leaders who have created news funds in their communities — or who seek to do so. They will spend the
Report for America presented awards to journalists in a dozen categories and named a Mentor of the Year at its second annual “Local News Awards” ceremony, held at Loyola University Chicago, June 10. The celebration capped off the national service program’s “National Gathering 2022” which brought together hundreds of corps members for the first time
https://d11c61iuuht6ew.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/volunteer_week_kick-off-1080p.mp4 National Volunteer Week is a time to recognize the time and effort that volunteers put into their service to better their communities. Report for America corps members volunteer their time on a service project, generally a student journalism or youth media project, to help teach media literacy and storytelling skills to the next generation.
https://d11c61iuuht6ew.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/volunteer_week_kick-off-1080p.mp4 National Volunteer Week is a time to recognize the time and effort that volunteers put into their service to better their communities. Report for America corps members volunteer their time on a service project, generally a student journalism or youth media project, to help teach media literacy and storytelling skills to the next generation.
https://d11c61iuuht6ew.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/volunteer_week_kick-off-1080p.mp4 National Volunteer Week is a time to recognize the time and effort that volunteers put into their service to better their communities. Report for America corps members volunteer their time on a service project, generally a student journalism or youth media project, to help teach media literacy and storytelling skills to the next generation.
Nineteen newsrooms have been selected to be part of the RFA/LMA Sustainability Lab, a new partnership between Report for America, Local Media Association and Meta Journalism Project to catalyze philanthropic and business model innovation for local newsrooms. Support from Meta Journalism Project will enable newsrooms in the lab, run by LMA for RFA partner media
This International Women’s Day, we spoke with Becky Jacobs, a Report for America corps member who writes about women’s issues and the status of women in Utah for The Salt Lake Tribune. “We knew that during the coronavirus pandemic, women were disproportionately affected economically, in terms of jobs but also taking on responsibilities with kids