The need for independent, fearless journalism is stronger than ever.
The past few years have taught us that truthful and unbiased journalism is vital to our health, our democracies and our communities, not just in the United States, but around the world too.
Our Report for America corps members show up for their communities every day. They lift up stories that would otherwise go overlooked and hold power to account.
They’re a force for good.
In 2021, we adapted our hyper-local model to India, Nigeria and Brazil and launched Report for the World.
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“Alharaca” is an insult directed towards a woman that means she is being over-sensitive and over-emotional about an issue. Alharaca reclaims this, providing strong journalism with a feminist perspective that covers the intersection of journalism, art, academia, and technology. Based in El Salvador, this women-led digital news platform covers current affairs and how they affect not just women, but all Salvadorean society.
For more than 10 years Etilaat Roz was the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Kabul, establishing itself as a hard-hitting investigative journalism organization, focused on systemic corruption in Afghanistan. But when the Taliban took power, the newsroom was forced into exile. Despite this, Etilaat Roz continues to put out strong journalism that seeks to advance a free press in Afghanistan.
Convoca is an investigative journalism organization founded in 2014 by reporters, data analysts, and programmers in Peru to merge the best of traditional reporting with the intelligent use of databases, a multidisciplinary perspective and new digital narratives to systematically investigate the networks of political and corporate power that affect the lives of citizens.
Quinto Elemento Lab is an independent journalism nonprofit that produces investigative stories that aim to empower citizens, strengthen accountability and help build a more just and transparent society. Inequality, impunity and corruption are still leaving a mark in Mexico. That’s one of the reasons why Quinto Elemento focuses on investigations that shed light on the inequalities, abuses and failures of the powerful as well as the inequality in the exercise of citizen’s rights.
Ukrainska Pravda is an online news and analysis website founded by Georgiy Gongadze on 16 April 2000. Published from Kyiv in Ukrainian, Russian and English, it has become a reference for independent journalism in Ukraine during the Russian invasion.
Launched in 2017, The Citizen Bulletin is a digital-first newsroom that produces hard-hitting longform reporting for the greater region of Matabeleland, south-western Zimbabwe. We cover core news and focus on special-interest beats such as public health, education and environment. We are a fully distributed team that is dedicated to mission-driven high-quality journalism that cuts through the noise.
Átlátszó is the first Hungarian investigative journalism nonprofit and a watchdog NGO to promote transparency, accountability, and freedom of information in Hungary.
Founded in 2011 by women reporters, Agência Pública is the first non-profit investigative news agency in Brazil. Their focus is to investigate the public administration, including all levels of government and congressional houses; the social and environmental impact of corporations and corrupt and anti-transparent practices; the efficacy, transparency, and equity of the justice system; and the violence against vulnerable communities in urban and rural areas. Their reporting has been recognized with over 50 national and international journalism awards. Including the Ibero-American Gabriel Garcia Márquez Award and the Premio Roche Award for Health Reporting.
The Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) is an independent, not-for-profit organization that combats injustice, holds power to account and speaks for the voiceless. Founded in June 2020, FIJ seeks to uncover the truth by bypassing officialdom and neutralizing propaganda, and making it accessible to the public in a way that eases and influences their everyday decision making.
The News Minute is a digital news platform covering India, with a specific focus on the five southern states of the country. Headquartered in Bengaluru, TNM has ground reporters in all the southern states covering a wide range of issues and events.
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Rampant disinformation continues to tear at the fabric of our democracy, but our corps members have been on the frontlines of our mission, delivering reliable, trustworthy local news across the country. And most importantly, their communities have come out to support them and the work they do.
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Local public service journalism is at risk globally. The dramatic economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted news organizations that were already under great stress. We launched Report for the World to support trusted local journalism where it’s needed most.
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In 2021, Report for America President and Co-Founder Steven Waldman formed the Rebuild Local News Coalition to advocate public policies that will strengthen communities by creating a more robust, more inclusive local news system, without endangering editorial independence.
In 2021, our staff of 42 spanned 20 states across the United States and Washington, D.C. bringing a range of nonprofit, operations, and journalism experience. Meet the people who make all this work possible here.
Simultaneously, we refined, deepened and improved our flagship program, Report for America, with an even greater focus of building a more sustainable journalism ecosystem—at the local level.
And, my co-founder of Report for America, Steve Waldman, launched a new policy initiative called the Rebuild Local News Coalition, a bold venture to enact more support for local news at the state and federal level.
Our mission—to restore journalism from the ground up—matters now more than ever, and we strive to innovate and expand our work to rejuvenate news deserts, restore reporting gaps decimated by COVID-19, and lift up stories that matter most. This is a movement to not only restore journalism, but really to restore and protect democracy in the U.S. and around the world.
And for those of you who already have joined, we extend heart-felt gratitude. Your support means the world to us.
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