Kentucky

LINK nky

With a focus on the public interest, LINK nky advances the Northern Kentucky Metro in the region, the commonwealth and the nation by providing transformative coverage of the news of the day with focus on the deeper issues that matter most to our community.

MEDIALEX Community Newsroom

MEDIALEX is a public platform for local voices to share stories that matter through community-created news, information, and entertainment. MEDIALEX provides local news & information in multiple languages through fact-based reporting by trusted members of the community. The organization's public interest/public health reporting model has been recognized as an effective example of community-centered, collaborative local journalism.

The Woodford Sun Community Newspaper

Founded in 1869, The Woodford Sun, a 156-year-old institution, remains Woodford County’s only independent local news source. In this local news desert, the Sun provides essential, trustworthy, place-based reporting that reflects and connects residents across Versailles, Midway, and surrounding rural communities.

CivicLex

CivicLex is a nationally-recognized nonprofit working to strengthen civic health in Lexington, Kentucky by helping our community understand & get involved in local issues, connect with their neighbors, and have a say in decision making.

CivicLex

CivicLex is a nonprofit organization working to strengthen civic health in Lexington by helping our community understand and get involved in local issues, connect with their neighbors, and have a say in decision making.

Lexington Herald-Leader

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Lexington Herald-Leader and its website Kentucky.com are committed to being Central and Eastern Kentucky’s primary source of news and commentary with the highest standards of journalism. Owned by McClatchy since 2006, the Herald-Leader endeavors to be a rewarding and caring employer and a force for positive change in the community. The newsroom’s 44 journalists focus on breaking news that holds leaders or institutions accountable, makes a concrete difference in the community and tells readers how something will directly impact their lives.  

Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting

The Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting is a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom based in Louisville with coverage focused statewide. Our mission is to protect society’s most vulnerable citizens, expose wrongdoing in the public and private sectors, increase transparency in government and hold leaders accountable. KyCIR is the creation of the nonprofit Louisville Public Media, which announced KyCIR’s formation in spring 2013. We are a part of the WFPL newsroom, an NPR affiliate.

Bowling Green Daily News

The Bowling Green Daily News, a news site and the area's only daily paper, is the main news source in south central Kentucky. The primary coverage area is the city of Bowling Green and Warren County. Founded in 1884, The Daily News remains a family-owned business with a mission to provide comprehensive and contextual news coverage.

Lily Burris

Lily Burris covers wealth and poverty in Kentucky for the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting in Louisville. Prior to joining the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, Burris worked as the tornado recovery reporter for WKMS-FM in Murray, Kentucky on a Corporation for Public Broadcasting grant. Her work focused on the communities across west and central Kentucky that were devastated by a sudden tornado outbreak in December 2021 and their efforts to come back from the losses they faced. She started in journalism as a reporter at her college newspaper, the College Heights Herald at Western Kentucky University. By her senior semester in college, Burris was the editor-in-chief of the publication, where she also worked as assignment editor, administration reporter, and general assignment reporter. In college, Burris also interned for Louisville Public Media, attended the Danish School of Media and Journalism, and won the Jon Fleischaker Freedom of Information Award from Kentucky Press Association at the collegiate level for her work on a piece focused on sexual misconduct records and Title IX.

David Mamaril Horowitz

David Mamaril Horowitz covers education at the Bowling Green Daily News in Kentucky. Before joining Report for America, Horowitz covered local news as a freelancer in San Francisco, where he wrote hundreds of articles for outlets such as Mission Local, the San Francisco Examiner, and Hoodline. He is a recent graduate of Lede, the professional program for data journalism at Columbia University. As a tech reporter at Mission Local, he wrote an investigation on pay and transparency at ride-hail companies that went viral. A week later, Uber improved the transparency shortcoming Horowitz had highlighted. In his free time, he learns Spanish and wrangles data for the Data Liberation Project.