Report for America to Place a Record 250 Journalists in 164 Local Newsrooms in 2020

Posted

Full list of newsrooms in North Carolina and the south.

NEW YORK—Report for America announced today that it will field 250 emerging journalists in 164 host news organizations to serve local communities across 46 states in the coming year.

This is more than four times the size of the 2019 class, who have been reporting in some 50 local news organizations across 28 states and Puerto Rico. Today’s news marks the single biggest hiring announcement of journalists in recent memory—and comes as a direct response to the worsening crisis in local news across the country.

The program announced the winning newsrooms today—full list here—and will select the corps members in a separate application process for journalists that also kicks off today.

Report for America is a national service program that places talented, emerging journalists into local news organizations to report for one to two years on under-covered issues and communities. An initiative of The GroundTruth Project, Report for America addresses an urgent need in journalism at a time when news deserts are widening across the country, leaving communities uninformed on local issues and threatening our democracy like never before.

Keep reading