Defending the Public Library in Victoria
VICTORIA, Texas — The City Council chambers usually feels quiet, and often
Our Reporters’ Work
Accountability journalism that corps members produce includes articles, TV and radio clips, and photojournalism. In On the Ground essays, they reflect on their experiences.
News Stories
For poor Californians, bad teeth lead to discrimination
Low-income residents have few options for quality dental care, RFA corps member Manuela Tobias reported. Bad teeth mean bad jobs, which propels a cycle of poverty.
Manuela Tobias
Fresno Bee
Questionable bills surround lobbying effort
A Louisiana law firm charged Utah’s poorest county $500,000, including questionable fees, to lobby against the expansion of Bears Ears National Monument, corps member Zak Podmore reported after demanding public records.
Zak Podmore
Salt Lake Tribune
The high cost of poor defense
Corps member Samantha Hogan revealed potential over-billing by lawyers defending Maine’s poor—including continual 80-hour weeks for some. Her investigation sparked multiple state investigations.
Samantha Hogan
Pine Tree Watch
Photographer Adam Sings In The Timber Wants To Change The Way You See Native America
A profile of this Apsalooke photographer reveals his ethos: He tries to document Native people as they are day-to-day, whether they’re planting herbs in a community garden or protesting at their city’s Women’s March.
Savannah Maher
Wyoming Public Radio
Northern Kentucky toxic chemicals: Where are the worst? Sorry, that’s secret.
Emergency workers in Northern Kentucky have identified 23 chemicals that local companies use that would be particularly hazardous to residents in the event of a spill or leak. But state law doesn’t allow the public to know what they are.
Julia Fair
Cincinnati Enquirer
Utah women agree: Business and government leaders should work on the gender wage gap
After having one of the worst gender wage gaps in the country for several years, Utah women have a message for their government and business leaders: Take action.
Becky Jacobs
Salt Lake Tribune
Photo Galleries
MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Meet the families that have been affected by immigration raids
MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Paint the Town 2019
On the Ground Essays
Bearing Witness to the Human Consequences of U.S. Immigration Policy
On the Ground in EL PASO, Texas — At dusk on a Friday
What the Emmett Till Case Taught Me About Journalism and Mississippi’s Unfinished History
On the Ground in SUMNER, Mississippi — The courthouse where Emmett Till’s
A Journalist’s Dilemma: Wanting to Do More to Help Than Tell a Story
On the Ground — On a muggy July evening, I sat on the
How the Story I Never Wrote Led Me to a Story That Needed to be Told
On the Ground — Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, one of the state’s three
A portrait of struggle and violence in Mississippi
On the Ground in JACKSON, Miss. — It was almost Independence Day