2019 Report for America grant winners announced - Entrepreneur Generations

Nonprofit journalism venture Report for America has announced 40 newsroom winners of its 2019 grants. The grants will cover half the salaries for 50 emerging journalists to report on under-covered topics in local newsrooms across the country. The winning newsrooms span 26 states and Puerto Rico, and include nonprofit newsrooms, daily and weekly newspapers, and public radio stations. The grant application deadline has been extended to February 8, so another five to 10 newsroom winners will be announced in the coming weeks, supporting another 10 reporter positions. 

Here are a few newsroom winners that pitched projects with a rural angle:

• Buffalo Bulletin in Wyoming: the local production industry in Johnson County
• Charleston Gazette Mail in West Virginia: poverty in southern West Virginia
• Chico Enterprise-Record, Ukiah Daily Journal in California: wildfire recovery in northern California
• Desert Sun in California: Native American issues in Coachella Valley
• KUER 90.1 FM in Utah: two reporters, one focusing on Native American populations in southern Utah and the other on Washington County (where Zion National Park is)
• Lexington Herald-Leader in Kentucky: health care in eastern and southern Kentucky
• Malheur Enterprise in Oregon: Latinx issues in rural Oregon
• News & Observer in North Carolina: watchdog reporting on Hurricane Florence recovery
• Spokesman-Review in Washington: public health in eastern Washington state
• Sun-Gazette in California: agriculture in the San Joaquin Valley
• West Virginia Public Broadcasting: state government as it impacts southern West Virginia

Report for America will also renew some reporters' 2018 contracts in at least eight newsrooms. Here are the ones with rural resonance:

• Victoria Advocate in Texas: rural public health (Ciara McCarthy)
• Mississippi Today: criminal justice and photography (Michelle Liu and Eric Shelton)
• Mississippi Public Broadcasting in the Mississippi Delta (Alexandra Watts)
• Lexington Herald-Leader in Kentucky: Eastern Kentucky (Will Wright)
• Charleston Gazette-Mail in West Virginia: southern coalfields of West Virginia (Caity Coyne)

from The Rural Blog http://bit.ly/2HhVX0M 2019 Report for America grant winners announced - Entrepreneur Generations

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