November is Native American Heritage Month, and to celebrate, Report for America launched a weekly series highlighting our Indigenous corps members, their reflections and their stories. This week, we spoke to corps member Natasha Brennan, of The News Tribune, in partnership with The Olympian, The Bellingham Herald, and The Tri-City Herald. Here is what she
November is Native American Heritage Month, and to celebrate, Report for America is launching a weekly series highlighting our Indigenous corps members, their reflections and their stories. Journalists that identify as Native American or Indigenous make up just half a percent of all journalists in the United States, despite being nearly two percent of the
November is Native American Heritage Month, and to celebrate, Report for America is launching a weekly series highlighting our Indigenous corps members, their reflections and their stories. This week, we spoke to corps member Sierra Clark, of the Traverse City Record-Eagle. Here is what she had to say: “The most challenging part of journalism is
Hispanic Heritage Month is a time to celebrate the culture, history and contributions of Hispanic and Latino people throughout the country each year, from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15. Latinos have historically been absent in popular culture and news media. Today, only 11 percent of news analysts, reporters, and journalists identify as Latino, despite the
Sliding into DMs, an unconventional workspace and excitement for bison Stefania Lugli first learned about Report for America as a digital intern with our nonprofit home, The GroundTruth Project. Most of her work involved supporting corps members with their dispatches. Within weeks, she knew she wanted to be a corps member. “I was determined to
In a tumultuous year of reporting, a corps member finds solace in her service project. So much has happened in Minnesota since Zoë Jackson joined The Star Tribune as a Report for America corps member last summer. She was meant to cover young voters and politics, and soon became a COVID-19 reporter as well. Now,
America’s annual celebration of Black History Month takes on a remarkable dimension this year as the nation reels from a summer of protests confronting racism and police violence; as communities of color are disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic due to systemic failures, from lack of local pharmacies to medical racism; and as Black leaders and activists
Emily Woodruff is a second-year Report for America corps member, who covers health care and public health in southern Louisiana for The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate with a focus on the New Orleans metro region. Headlines at the end of March blamed Mardi Gras for the potential spread of coronavirus, calling it a
Camille von Kaenel is a 2019-20 Report for America corps member, covering wildfire recovery for the Chico-Enterprise Record in Northern California, focusing on a region that was devastated by 2018’s deadly Camp Fire. As of June 2020, she is covering growth and development in San Diego County’s backcountry for inewssource. “I wish I knew that