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GroundTruth Project names new VP of Communications
The GroundTruth Project, a nonprofit journalism organization and the home of Report for America and Report for the World, has named Sam Kille, a Marine veteran and established nonprofit communications leader, as its new vice president of communications. Kille had been Report for America’s director of communications before serving as...
Ukraine’s dam explosion: An environmental nightmare that became a reality
Ukraine’s minister of environmental protection looked exhausted one morning last month after a night of air raid sirens in Kyiv. But what was really keeping him up at night was a chilling vision of a hypothetical scenario of what could unfold if a major hydroelectric dam in southern Ukraine were to be destroyed in the war.
Report for the World announces newest corps members, brings together journalists from across the globe
Report for the World brought together journalists from across the globe this week for virtual training in journalism safety, cyber security, international collaboration — and most importantly, to build camaraderie among the program’s newest reporting corps members. “I am really excited for this program, and I think that...
New indigenous territories expand environmental protection in the Brazilian Amazon, but land conflicts remain a threat
Brazil recently recognized six new indigenous territories, a significant move to safeguard ancestral lands and the environment. The area granted officially by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva covers a total of 800 square miles, primarily located in the Amazon. This is the first official demarcation of indigenous lands...
The role of local news in the reconstruction of Bucha
BUCHA, Ukraine — The massacre that took place here in early March one year ago shocked the world and made this town synonymous with the barbarity of Russia’s unprovoked invasion. Battered but slowly rebuilding, Bucha stands as a crime scene at the center of the international war crimes...
Report for America welcomes newest corps members despite growing cuts to newsrooms across the country
As newsroom layoffs continue to make headlines across the industry, Report for America is pleased to announce that it will place more than 60 reporters and photojournalists in new positions at local newsrooms across the country this summer. These new corps members join hundreds more who will continue reporting on...
Report for the World expands global network of independent newsrooms, support for journalists in exile
BOSTON, April 19, 2023 —Report for the World today announced the selection of 15 new host newsrooms, more than doubling its global network from eight to 20 countries. Among them are five, independent newsrooms reporting on their home countries in exile. “As we expand to 20 countries this year,...
There’s a shortage of sexual assault exam providers in rural America. Can it call on midwives?
RIDGWAY, CO – Heather Toth struggles to remember everything that happened that May morning in 2015 when she first rode in a police car from Ridgway to Montrose, Colorado. But she remembers sitting in the back seat, alone and humiliated, as law enforcement carted her away from home, away from the people who cared about her.
On anniversary of Irish peace accords, an exhumation of a tragic past
COUNTY MONAGHAN, Ireland — A cold rain fell across the vast blanket of peat that straddles a desolate stretch of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. A team of forensic archeologists was at the Bragan Bog last week restarting a painstaking excavation, layer by layer,...
‘There is still fear’ — for the five McCartney sisters of Belfast, the Troubles never ended
Editor’s note: This story was originally published by The Boston Globe on April 7, 2023. BELFAST, Northern Ireland — On the night of Jan. 30, 2005, Robert McCartney, a 33-year-old father of two, headed out into the Short Strand, a working-class enclave where he and his five sisters had come of age amid the brick rowhouses and the towering walls of steel mesh and razor wire that even today separate their Catholic neighborhood from the adjacent Protestant neighborhood of East Belfast. McCartney walked past the graffiti murals celebrating the republican martyrs of 30 years of conflict in Northern Ireland, and he crossed the bridge over the Lagan River to the nearby Markets district, to Magennis’s Bar.
Development Associate
The GroundTruth Project, whose mission is to advance sustainable, innovative, and equitable journalism that serves under-covered communities worldwide through on-the-ground reporting, is seeking a Non-Profit Development Associate to join its Development Team. GroundTruth is home to Report for America and Report for the World, two programs addressing the crisis in...
Membership and Database Development Associate
The GroundTruth Project, whose mission is to advance sustainable, innovative, and equitable journalism that serves under-covered communities worldwide through on-the-ground reporting, is seeking a Non-Profit Membership & Database Development Associate to join its Development Team. GroundTruth is home to Report for America and Report for the World, two programs addressing...
Great Lakes pollution threatens Ojibwe treaty rights to fish
Editor’s note: This story is a product of the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, an editorially independent reporting network based at the University of Missouri School of Journalism in partnership with Report For America and funded by the Walton Family Foundation. It was originally published in Wisconsin Watch on Feb 24 2023.
Regional Manager, Report for America – West (California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Hawaii)
The Corps Excellence Regional Manager for Report for America is a critical position within the organization. This manager is charged with overseeing the running of the program on a regional level from the perspective of emerging journalists and the newsrooms that employ them. This position covers the western U.S., which encompasses Report for America’s newsroom partners and corps members in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii.
How to network when your room is the newsroom
This column originally appeared in Navigator, GroundTruth’s newsletter for early-career journalists. As workplaces shifted to virtual during the pandemic, media organizations were no exception, effectively changing the way newsrooms operate, likely for good. For young journalists entering the field remotely, charting the course of their career can feel like...
Staff Accountant
The GroundTruth Project, Inc. is looking for an experienced Staff Accountant to join its growing Finance team. The Staff Accountant provides general ledger and other accounting/administrative duties and should take full ownership of your areas of responsibility and prioritize time effectively. The Staff Accountant reports to the Controller. Essential Functions:
A year of Putin’s war against Ukraine and the free press
The world is preparing to take measure of the first anniversary of the war in Ukraine next week, with no end in sight to the fighting and mounting fears that Russia is in fact plunging into a new offensive. It was Feb. 24th last year when the world woke up...
For independent media, a different approach to digital platforms
Editor’s note: This story was originally published by the Columbia Journalism Review as part of a series on platforms and the press published jointly with the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law & Policy. You can find the original version here. In a recent Pew Research Center survey, 94 percent...
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The GroundTruth Project is an award-winning nonprofit journalism organization dedicated to rebuilding journalism from the ground up. GroundTruth serves undercovered communities by supporting the next generation of journalists to do on-the-ground reporting and to advance sustainability, innovation, and equity in journalism worldwide. GroundTruth’s flagship programs — Report for America and Report for the World — place talented, diverse local reporters in the newsrooms that need them most.
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