journalism
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month
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
Six beats to consider when your newsroom applies to Report for America
Report for America helps local newsrooms plug holes in their coverage. We’re accepting applications now, through Sept. 30, from newsrooms that want us to help them find great reporters, for under-covered communities or topics, and pay half their salary. Many of the beats of our 300 journalists, working in more than 200 newsrooms, are what
Report for America backs Senate version of Local Journalism Sustainability Act
Report for America, an initiative of The GroundTruth Project, joins the Rebuild Local News coalition in its support of the U.S. Senate version of the Local Journalism Sustainability Act. The coalition represents more than 3,000 local newsrooms, funders of local journalism, and civil society organizations advocating for a healthy free press. The bill — jointly
The Journalist Population
We often talk about the closures of newspapers over the past few decades. Of course this is all happening at a time when the population has increased. So the number of journalists per American has declined even more. If you view local reporting as a public service, that means there’s been an even sharper decline
Report for America hosts inaugural ‘Local News Awards’
Report for America presented awards to journalists in a dozen categories and named a Mentor of the Year at its inaugural Local News Awards program, held virtually, June 25. Among the evening’s top winners was The Columbus Dispatch’s Ceili Doyle, who took home Dispatch of the Year honors for her piece “Against the tide:
Report for America joins coalition’s endorsement of bipartisan bill to preserve community journalism
Rebuild Local News, a coalition representing more than 3,000 local newsrooms, funders of local journalism, and civil society organizations advocating for a healthy free press—including Report for America—today placed its support behind the newly reintroduced Local Journalism Sustainability Act for the 117th Congress. Reps. Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ) and Dan Newhouse (R-WA) introduced the bipartisan bill
Report for America joins call for Congress to include local news in infrastructure bill
A coalition representing more than 3,000 local newsrooms, funders of local journalism, and civil society organizations advocating for a healthy free press—including Report for America—today urged Congressional leaders to bolster support for America’s community news organizations in the infrastructure bill. “Local news is a pillar of democracy’s civic infrastructure — and it is crumbling,” began
Report for America expands, taps leading journalists for added regional leadership
Report for America is pleased to welcome three new corps excellence regional managers to its staff: Maria Elena Fernandez, Vincent McCraw and Amy Tardif. They will support the program’s expansion into an ever-growing number of newsrooms across the nation. These established, leading journalists will help recruit and mentor Report for America’s reporting corps members, strengthen
ChrisAnna Mink receives 2021 Service Project Award
ChrisAnna Mink was presented with the 2021 Report for America Service Project Award during this year’s corps member graduation ceremony. Not only did Mink help students learn about the fundamentals of journalism, she returned to work at a hospital amid the pandemic as a pediatric infectious diseases specialist. “ChrisAnna didn’t let the pandemic stop her