Multilingual, Multicultural Reporting on Public Health and Public Interest Issues

Samuel Collins Hicks

Samuel Collins Hicks is a public health and public interest reporter at MEDIALEX Community Newsroom as part of a pilot partnership with Press Forward Blue Grass, which trains community members to work as journalists in their hometowns. Before joining Report for America, Hicks was the city editor for the LEXtoday newsletter, delivering daily news to an audience of +40,000. He is also a poet, essayist, and TV/film actor. His debut essay Very Truly Yours was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Purple Ink Press, and his poems have appeared in multiple anthologies from Workhorse Publishing.

MEDIALEX Community Newsroom

MEDIALEX is a public platform for local voices to share stories that matter through community-created news, information, and entertainment. MEDIALEX provides local news & information in multiple languages through fact-based reporting by trusted members of the community. The organization's public interest/public health reporting model has been recognized as an effective example of community-centered, collaborative local journalism.