Our Journalists’ Work
The journalism that corps members produce includes news, investigative, enterprise and feature stories and photography, for newspapers, radio, TV and digital-only newsrooms.
Collaborations
Report for America brings together its host newsrooms, partners, and funders to amplify local stories nationally. Through these partnerships, we help ensure diverse voices are heard, address critical local issues and foster a more inclusive media landscape.
The Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk
The Ag & Water Desk is a collaboration between the Missouri School of Journalism, Society of Environmental Journalists and Report for America, to enhance the quantity, quality and impact of journalism on agriculture, water and related issues across the nation’s largest watershed.
Our corps members, working in newsrooms across the basin, have produced hundreds of stories, including dozens of collaborative and investigative pieces, such as the five-part multimedia series “When it Rains” and team coverage of drinking water contamination.
The Desk’s coverage has been featured in local and national news outlets including the Associated Press, Washington Post, NPR, Science Friday, Indian Country Today and others.
Investigative Reporting
To encourage more investigative reporting in local newsrooms and to help our corps members and their editors hone those skills, we launched the Report for America Investigative Reporting Program, which has helped our host newsrooms produce 13 projects to date and will enable more than 40 others over the next several years.
The nonprofit Investigative Editing Corps assists with the program, providing freelance investigative editors to newsroom project teams to help oversee the investigation and teach investigative skills. Report for America pays all costs associated with the program, which is free to host newsrooms.
CatchLight
Following decades of jobs decline in the journalism industry that have disproportionately affected visual professionals, a joint initiative between Report and America and Catchlight fills the gap in underserved markets to reach audiences wherever they consume their news by placing full-time photojournalists with salary subsidies in select newsrooms nationwide.