Report for America fights crisis in local news, expands into 200-plus newsrooms with 300 journalists
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Forty-five percent of corps members are journalists of color, reflecting America’s diverse communities
“The crisis in our democracy, disinformation and polarization, is in many ways a result of the collapse of local news,” said Steven Waldman, co-founder and president of Report for America. NEW YORK (PRWEB) April 27, 2021
Report for America today announced the placements of some 300 journalists for its 2021 reporting corps. The cohort, which includes a number of corps members returning for a second or third year, will join the staffs of more than 200 local news organizations across 49 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and Guam.
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“The future of journalism is small, intimate and personal,” says Indian journalist who’s writing about mental health on Substack
Tanmoy Goswami was the world’s first sanity correspondent. Now he’s creating a platform to highlight these issues in the Global South
Indian journalist Tanmoy Goswami.
Monday 19 April 2021
Tanmoy Goswami was the world’s first sanity correspondent. The New Delhi-based, former business journalist covered the marginalisation of low and middle-income countries in the global mental health movement for
The Correspondent until the end of 2020.
His journalism is driven by personal experience of living with depression, anxiety and self-harm, but also by the desire to address global mental health crises and the emerging needs of India’s burgeoning youth population. In this interview, Goswami explains why mental health journalism matters and what journalists and news publishers can do in the Global South in this field.
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Karen Savage is an investigative journalist who has reported on climate change-related litigation, environmental justice, policing and other social justice issues. In addition to DeSmog, her work has appeared in Drilled News, Climate Docket, Undark Magazine, In These Times, Project Earth, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, City Limits, and other outlets. Karen is an alum of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, where she won the Sidney Hillman Award for Social Justice Reporting. You can find her on Twitter at @mathsavage.
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