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)
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