Fort Smith Times Record
Food insecurity is a major issue in the Fort Smith region. Because of its importance, the Times Record will soon have a reporter to focus on it.
Catherine Nolte, a 2021 honors graduate of John Brown University s communications department, will join our reporting staff on June 7 and work alongside reporters Alex Gladden, and Ty Thompson, and photographer Jamie Mitchell.
Nolte s position is in partnership with The Ground Truth Project s Report For America. The Times Record was chosen in December to become a host newsroom beginning this year. While her position is funded in part by Report For America, Nolte will be a Times Record journalist. Her work will help shed more light on this crucial issue of food insecurity and hopefully help the Fort Smith region find solutions to a problem that impacts all levels of society.
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.
The Columbus Dispatch
To better reflect and serve communities within the city of Columbus and beyond, The Dispatch is adding a reporting position to write for and about refugee and immigrant communities in central Ohio.
This is made possible through Report for America, which today announced the placement of about 300 journalists nationwide for its 2021-22 reporting corps.
Yilun Cheng will join the Dispatch staff in June to work with veteran reporter Danae King in covering underserved communities. Cheng, who has a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of California and a master’s degree in political science from Columbia University, is currently completing her course work toward a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
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