Report for America: Support for Six Corps Members

For this project, the regional media outlets and the issues the six journalists will focus on are: Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting: health disparities in Arizona’s rural communities; Washington Informer: health care in the Black community in Washington, D.C.; Charlotte Post: health care in the Black community of Charlotte, N.C.; Georgia Public Broadcasting: health care in the South’s “stroke belt”; El Paso Matters: bilingual health care reporting; and NJ Spotlight News: mental health care in rural New Jersey. The Report for America (RFA) places a strong emphasis on racial diversity — 45 percent of their reporters are journalists of color — and would prioritize placing journalists of color in these reporting roles. In addition to helping pay salaries, RFA recruits and helps place new journalists and provides training and mentoring for newsroom staff.