Report for America Partners With 58 Leading Journalists on Mentor Program
Ashley Garrett
New York, NY – Report for America (RFA), a national service program that places emerging journalists into local news organizations
TV Beats in 2020-2021
Ashley Garrett
Report for America is offering 11 positions in innovative local TV stations around the country — covering crucially important beats.
Radio Beats in 2020-2021
Ashley Garrett
For emerging journalists interested in working in radio, Report for America’s group of 2020-2021 host newsrooms comprises more opportunities than
The Native American Journalists Association and Report for America take new steps to strengthen reporting in Indigenous communities
Report for America
NORMAN, Oklahoma — The Native American Journalists Association and Report for America are partnering to support 20 reporting positions across
Statehouse beats in 2020-21
Steven Waldman
Colorado — Associated Press: Colorado state legislature, with special focus on public health Connecticut — Associated Press: State policy issues
Report for America to Place a Record 250 Journalists in 164 Local Newsrooms in 2020
Report for America
FULL LIST OF NEWSROOMS NEW YORK—Report for America announced today that it will field 250 emerging journalists in 164 host
2019 Press
- KNIGHT-CRONKITE NEWS LAB — A CORPS OF TALENTED YOUNG JOURNALISTS – COMING TO A NEWS DESERT NEAR YOU — 8/1/19
- THE NEW YORK TIMES — A FUTURE WITHOUT THE FRONT PAGE — 8/1/19
- COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW — LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, RE: REPORT FOR AMERICA’S PROGRESS — 7/18/19
- THE ATLANTIC — REPORT FOR AMERICAN REVIVES POSSIBILITIES FOR LOCAL JOURNALISM — 6/26/19
- COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW — YOU CAN GO HOME AGAIN — 6/5/19
- THE BOSTON GLOBE — LOCAL NEWS IS TANKING. REPORT FOR AMERICA AIMS TO HELP SAVE IT — 5/30/19
- NIEMAN JOURNALISM LAB — WHY LOCAL FOUNDATIONS ARE PUTTING THEIR MONEY BEHIND A RURAL JOURNALISM COLLABORATIVE — 5/22/19
- COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW — CAN REPORT FOR AMERICA BUILD TRUST IN LOCAL NEWS? A VIEW FROM TWO COMMUNITIES — 5/6/19
- NIEMAN JOURNALISM LAB — “IS HE A LOCAL BOY?” IS REPORT FOR AMERICA BUILDING TRUST WITHIN THE COMMUNITIES IT SERVES? — 5/6/19
- VALLEY PUBLIC RADIO — SERVICE CORPS BOLSTERS LOCAL JOURNALISM AND MAYBE DEMOCRACY — 5/1/19
- INSIDESOURCES — FOR DEMOCRACY’S SAKE, LOCAL JOURNALISM NEEDS TO THRIVE — 4/11/19
- ASSOCIATED PRESS — DECLINE IN READERS, ADS LEADS HUNDREDS OF NEWSPAPERS TO FOLD — 3/11/19
- ASSOCIATED PRESS — SOME GROUPS STEP IN TO FILL THE GAP IN LOCAL NEWS COVERAGE — 3/9/19
- POYNTER — KNIGHT FOUNDATION PUTTING $300 MILLION TOWARD REBUILDING LOCAL NEWS — 2/19/19
- THE BOSTON GLOBE — A BIG BOOST FOR LOCAL JOURNALISM — 2/19/19
- THE CHRONICLE OF PHILANTHROPY — KNIGHT FOUNDATION COMMITS $300 MILLION TO SUPPORT LOCAL JOURNALISM — 2/19/19
- FORTUNE — KNIGHT FOUNDATION INVESTS $300 MILLION IN LOCAL JOURNALISM — ‘ESSENTIAL’ TO MAKE DEMOCRACY WORK — 2/19/19
- NIEMAN JOURNALISM LAB — “REBUILDING A LOCAL NEWS ECOSYSTEM”: KNIGHT PLEDGES $300 MILLION TO LOCAL NEWS, FREE SPEECH, AND MEDIA LITERACY ORGANIZATIONS — 2/19/19
- -30- — A Q&A WITH MAGGIE MESSITT — 2/3/19
- BING CREATIONS — IMPASSIONED JOURNALISTS BOLSTER U.S. NEWSROOMS THROUGH REPORT FOR AMERICA — 1/25/19
- CNN — WHAT ‘REPORT FOR AMERICA’ IS TRYING TO DO — 1/20/19
- CNN — REPORT FOR AMERICA AIMS TO REPLENISH NEWS DESERTS HARD HIT BY JOURNALISM’S ‘ECONOMIC CRISIS’ — 1/18/19
- PROVIDENCE JOURNAL — INSIDE STORY: A TRAINING GROUND FOR JOURNALISM’S NEXT GENERATION — 12/22/18
- DAILY YONDER — JOURNALISM PROJECT SHINES LIGHT ON WHY SO MANY LACK WATER SERVICE IN CENTRAL APPALACHIA — 12/7/18
- WAMU 88.5 — LOCAL NEWS DESERTS ARE EXPANDING. HOW COULD THAT AFFECT CIVIL ENGAGEMENT — 11/6/18
- POYNTER — REPORT FOR AMERICA IS READY TO KICK GROWTH INTO HIGHER GEAR — 10/15/18
- COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW — REPORT FOR AMERICA SET OUT TO GIVE LOCAL NEWS A BOOST — 10/5/18
- NEWSY — HOW THIS ORGANIZATION IS TRYING TO SAVE LOCAL NEWS — 10/5/18
- COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY — A CHAMPION FOR COMMUNITY JOURNALISM — 7/18/18
- MARIA SHRIVER’S SUNDAY PAPER — MEDIA VETERAN CO-FOUNDS ‘REPORT FOR AMERICA’ TO PROVIDE QUALITY JOURNALISM TO UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES — 7/1/18
- THE CHRONICLE OF PHILANTHROPY — ADVANCE THE PUBLIC GOOD, BIG DONORS, BY SAVING JOURNALISM — 5/1/18
- NIEMAN LAB — WHO’S WHO IN LOCAL NEWS: A GUIDE TO THE BIGGEST BRAINS AND BANK ACCOUNTS IN THE FIGHT FOR LOCAL JOURNALISM — 4/25/18
- THE NEW YORK TIMES — REPORT FOR AMERICA SUPPORTS JOURNALISM WHERE CUTBACKS HIT HARDEST — 4/15/18
- WASHINGTON POST — THE CRISIS IN JOURNALISM HAS BECOME A CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY — 4/11/18
- STREET FIGHT — REPORT FOR AMERICA’S ‘STAGGERING’ START IN BUILDING A ‘BETTER LOCAL MEDIA SYSTEM’ — 4/5/18
- SMERCONISH.COM — FINDING TRUTH, ONE REPORTER AT A TIME — 3/5/18
- PACIFIC STANDARD — LOCAL REPORTING IS DYING. THIS TRAINING CORPS WANTS TO BRING IT BACK. — 2/20/18
- NONPROFIT QUARTERLY — NONPROFITS INCREASINGLY CENTRAL TO THE FUTURE OF THE NEWS — 2/12/18
- COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW — JOURNALISM’S NEW PATRONS: NEWSPAPERS DEEPEN EMBRACE OF PHILANTHROPY — 2/8/18
- CHICAGO SUN-TIMES — SUN-TIMES WINS REPORT FOR AMERICA GRANT TO HIRE NEIGHBORHOOD REPORTER — 2/8/18
- DALLAS MORNING NEWS — REPORT FOR AMERICA SELECTS DALLAS MORNING NEWS FOR LOCAL REPORTING INITIATIVE — 2/8/18
- POYNTER — REPORT FOR AMERICA’S HEADING TO TEXAS, CHICAGO, MISSISSIPPI AND MORE — 2/8/18
- THE RINGER — THE FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE OF LOCAL NEWS — 1/10/18
- COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW — TAKING HEART FROM TOP-DOWN EFFORTS TO BOLSTER LOCAL JOURNALISM — 12/29/17
- OZY — THE NEW ‘PEACE CORPS’ FOR JOURNALISM — 11/6/17
- WBUR — THE CONSEQUENCES OF DECLINING LOCAL JOURNALISM — 10/7/17
- THE WASHINGTON POST — TENSION BETWEEN TRUMP AND THE MEDIA? THAT’S NOTHING COMPARED TO JOURNALISM’S WORST CRISIS. — 10/1/17
- MISSISSIPPI BUSINESS JOURNAL — MOVEMENT AIMS TO PLACE 1,000 JOURNALISTS IN NEWSROOMS IN NEXT 5 YEARS — 9/28/17
- POYNTER — REPORT FOR AMERICA CO-FOUNDERS ON ‘EMERGING’ JOURNALISTS, GOOGLE’S ROLE AND DIVERSITY — 9/27/17
- LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER — HERALD-LEADER OPENING PIKEVILLE BUREAU AS PART OF ALLIANCE TO BOOST APPALACHIAN NEWS — 9/26/17
- THE FEDERALIST — WILL SENDING 1,000 YOUNG REPORTERS TO LOCAL NEWSROOMS IMPROVE JOURNALISM? — 9/26/17
- POYNTER — REPORT FOR AMERICA LAUNCHES WITH A PILOT IN APPALACHIA — 9/26/17
- CHARLESTON GAZETTE-MAIL — ‘REPORT FOR AMERICA’ PILOT PROJECT BEGINS IN APPALACHIA — 9/26/17
- WEST VIRGINIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING — MEDIA PARTNERSHIP BRINGS REPORTING POWER BACK TO SOUTHERN W.VA., EASTERN KY. — 9/26/17
- LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER — HERALD-LEADER OPENING PIKEVILLE BUREAU AS PART OF ALLIANCE TO BOOST APPALACHIAN NEWS — 9/26/17
- COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW — THE MEDIA TODAY: JOURNALISM AS NATIONAL SERVICE — 9/19/17
- MEDIASHIFT — WHY IT’S TIME FOR ‘REPORT FOR AMERICA,’ A PUBLIC SERVICE PROGRAM FOR JOURNALISTS — 9/19/17
- NIEMAN LAB — REPORT FOR AMERICA WANTS TO PLACE (AND HELP PAY FOR) YOUNG REPORTERS IN LOCAL NEWSROOMS THAT NEED THEM — 9/19/17
- POYNTER — REPORT FOR AMERICA AIMS TO GET 1,000 JOURNALISTS IN LOCAL NEWSROOMS IN NEXT 5 YEARS — 9/18/17
- GOOGLE’S THE KEYWORD — SUPPORTING LOCAL JOURNALISM WITH REPORT FOR AMERICA — 9/18/17