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The responses from some states have been swift; 13 had “trigger laws” in place, intended to ban abortion as soon as Roe was reversed. In many of them, a ban is currently in effect, and seven more states are likely to ban abortion soon. The implementation of each ban differs from state to state as do the specific penalties and exceptions. The procedure remains legal in 20 states with many of those states expanding access; but for the remaining states, the future of abortion access is uncertain.

Editor’s note: The funeral of Bruno Pereira, an expert on Indigenous peoples who was killed alongside British journalist Dom Phillips during a reporting trip to the heart of the Amazon rainforest, was held in his home state Pernambuco last week. Pereira and Phillps were murdered in the Javari Valley,...

BOSTON – For the better part of 40 years, I’ve been practicing the craft of journalism and the art of storytelling. I’ve covered small town board meetings, big city cops, and courts, breaking national news and reporting from the frontlines of Afghanistan and Iraq. I have always been there on the ground, doing whatever it takes to find a good story.

BOSTON, June 30, 2022—The GroundTruth Project today announced that it will launch a national search for the role of CEO-and-President at the nonprofit journalism organization, which is home to Report for America and Report for the World. GroundTruth’s board of directors has assembled a search committee and looks to welcome its new leader by early 2023.

One year after Lebanon City Council banned abortion within city limits, abortion-rights protestors gathered outside Lebanon City Hall. “My body, my choice!,” they chanted on the warm May evening. “Abortion bans have got to go!”. Lebanon resident Mark Bledsoe made his way into the crowd shouting “How many...

Report for America, an initiative of The GroundTruth Project, is an award-winning, independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization dedicated to supporting the next generation of journalists in the U.S. and around the world. A national service program that places journalists into local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues and communities, Report for America is structured to harness the skills and idealism of an emerging group of journalists plus the creative spirit of local news organizations.

Report for America presented awards to journalists in a dozen categories and named a Mentor of the Year at its second annual “Local News Awards” ceremony, held at Loyola University Chicago, June 10. The celebration capped off the national service program’s “National Gathering 2022” which brought together hundreds...

When Cary Ball Jr. was shot and killed by St. Louis police officers in 2013, his mother Toni Taylor felt the media only painted half of the picture — with one exception: The St. Louis American reporter Rebecca Riva. “The reporter that I trusted from The St. Louis American...

Report for America is a national service program that places emerging journalists into local newsrooms to report on urgent under-covered issues and communities. It is an initiative of The GroundTruth Project, an award winning, independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization dedicated to supporting the next generation of journalists. Report for America...

This role will provide essential administrative support to the chair of the Rebuild Local News Coalition, and act as the primary staffer on social media and membership management. Rebuild Local News Coalition is a coalition of 17 trade associations and journalism advocates. Our goal is to work together to advocate...

Editor’s note: At least 128 people died and 9,200 lost their homes after severe rainstorms in Pernambuco state, Brazil, triggered a series of devastating landslides. More than a natural disaster, the tragedy exposed the consequences of the lack of urban and environmental policies in the state. According to the...

The GroundTruth Project is an award-winning, independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization dedicated to supporting the next generation of journalists in the U.S. and around the world. Our mission is to restore journalism from the ground up by supporting emerging journalists through field reporting that serves under-covered corners of the United States and the world. Our team is headquartered at WGBH in Boston, the flagship PBS station.

Report for America corps members, family, friends and staff came together virtually this past weekend to celebrate the graduation of more than 130 journalists from the national service program—its largest ceremony yet. The grads have all completed at least one year of service with Report America with several having...

Imagine a noise similar to an airplane flying over your house at a low altitude. This is what residents of Sítio Sobradinho, a community of Caetés city, a rural area of Brazil’s Pernambuco state, hear all day. Since 2015, after Cubico Sustainable Investments, a British renewable energy company, built a wind farm in the area, the families living there have had their routines dramatically changed. The giant wind turbines’ constant noise is just one of their problems.

Location: California, Oregon, Alaska, Guam and Hawaii. The Corp Excellence Regional Manager for Report for America is a key position within the organization. He/She is charged with overseeing the running of the program on a regional level from the perspective of the emerging journalists and the newsrooms that employ them. This position will cover Region 7, which encompasses Report for America’s newsroom partners and Corps Members in California, Oregon, Alaska, Guam and Hawaii.

Report for America is a dynamic, rapidly-growing answer to America’s crisis in local news reporting. Some 300 corps members work at newspapers large and small, public radio stations, TV stations, digital publications, wire services and investigative nonprofits. This year they will be in 250 newsrooms across all 50 states and Washington, D.C., plus Guam, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

The GroundTruth Project is seeking a bright Executive Assistant with outstanding written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills to support the CEO and COO. The individual will serve an important part of a fast-growing organization. This person will be expected to perform a variety of executive tasks, help keep long term projects on track, and handle more urgent requirements. An ideal candidate is responsive, thoughtful, self-directed, positive, and seeking a challenging role.

Editor’s note: Ever since a six-year-old girl was killed by a stray bullet during a police operation in Porto de Galinhas, this famous beach town in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco has been in turmoil. As the residents took to the streets to protest Heloysa Gabriele Fernandes Nunes’s death,...

Watching Trevor Noah at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner this weekend was a good chance to laugh and a sobering moment to reflect. Given the way it was ricocheting around social media over the weekend, I have to assume you already caught at least a clip of “The Daily Show” host roasting President Biden, as is the tradition, and relentlessly teasing all those White House correspondents. If you missed it, check it out here for the laughs, and just be sure you watch to the end and catch Noah’s more serious and powerful closing.

BOSTON, May 2, 2022 — Report for the World announced today open applications for local newsroom partners anywhere in the world. The program — which currently supports 15 local reporters in six newsrooms across Brazil, India, and Nigeria — will, for the first time, welcome applications from prospective host newsrooms in an open call that will expand the program’s support to up to 30 total reporters globally by the end of this year.