Trebor Maitin covers the futures beat for Rappahannock News and Foothills Forum. Before joining Report for America, Maitin was a reporter at Centre Daily Times in Pennsylvania, where he wrote about everything from politics to agriculture to ghost towns. An alumnus of Lafayette College, Maitin served as managing editor of the student newspaper, The Lafayette. While in college, he interned with the Pennsylvania Legislative Correspondents’ Association and freelanced for The Morning Call and the Pocono Record, his hometown papers. Maitin also holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia Journalism School.
Beat: The Futures Beat
A rural community at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a short drive from the nation’s capital, faces unprecedented threats to its character and scenic beauty. The reporter covers a cash-strapped county at a crossroads as rampant development from Northern Virginia, including giant data centers, threatens to encroach. Development brings promises of big tax revenues and jobs. But residents fear loss of farmland, environmental degradation, unquenchable energy demands and a worsening affordable housing crisis.