Cher’Don Reynolds, President and CEO of She Prints It, walks past her wall of inspirational female CEOs in her basement production studio in Lithonia on Monday, Dec. 23, 2024. (Ben Gray for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution) This year’s #International Women’s Day theme is accelerating action for gender equality. In partnership with Report for the World, we’re
A photo of Tamorris Carter sitting next to a statue of Rosa Parks while on a field trip to Dallas hangs on the bulletin board at the Sunflower County Freedom Project. Andrea Morales/ MLK50 This Black History Month, Report for America is honored to uplift select reporting from corps members covering Black voices and communities,
Report for America announces 100+ newsroom partners and the opening of new corps member applications Selections include 66 local newsroom partners and corps member positions, 37 accelerator program participants, with expanded photojournalist and education reporter opportunities still to be announced December 17, 2024 – Report for America announced today several new partnership and program developments
Knight Foundation invests $20 million in the next generation of journalists, local newsrooms December 12, 2024 — Report for America has received a $20 million investment from the Knight Foundation to expand its innovative model of journalist recruitment and newsroom partnerships and increase trustworthiness of local journalism. The multi-year commitment comes at a critical time
October 22, 2024 – Citing a shared mission, Report for America celebrates a recent investment of $20 million by Press Forward in 205 local news outlets, including one in every state and 23 current Report for America partners. Press Forward is a national coalition investing more than $500 million to strengthen local newsrooms, close longstanding
October 8, 2024 – Since 2017, Report for America has supported nearly 400 newsrooms, helping them collectively raise $30 million from within their communities to become more sustainable. The nonprofit journalism program now aims to use its experience and resources to help other newsrooms achieve greater sustainability through its new pilot “accelerator program.” Through the
CatchLight and Report for America are announcing an expanded partnership to place subsidized photojournalists in up to 20 local newsrooms throughout the United States in 2025 and provide comprehensive photo desk support to all participating organizations. The deadline is Oct. 21, 2024. Interested newsrooms can apply here. An information session is taking place Oct. 10 at
Report for America brought journalists from every corner of the country to Minneapolis last week for the service program’s 2024 National Gathering. It was an opportunity for corps members to connect and learn from one another in a way that can only be done in person. “We can do orientation on Zoom. We can do
The GroundTruth Project, home of Report for America, announced today the winner of this year’s GroundTruth Award, a recognition of a story produced by a Report for America corps member that embodies the spirit of our organization of on-the-ground reporting that exposes truths that are better understood through human narratives. The winner for this year
Report for America unveiled its 2024 Impact Report last night to a room filled with journalists, media industry leaders, philanthropists, and other supporters of local journalism at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis. While the focus of the evening was panel discussions on growing statewide support for local news in Minnesota, sharing the report