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Report for America announced recently that it has opened a new round of applications for news organizations interested in hosting emerging journalists for up to three years, beginning next June.
RFA places talented reporters in local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues and communities. The program recruits journalists and pays half the salary, up to $25,000. The other half is split between the host news organization and local donors.
The application deadline is September 30, 2020. Winning newsrooms will be publicly announced in December. An early decision will be made for those organizations that apply by Aug. 31. Visit the RFA website for more information about how the program works.
Sam Metz of the Associated Press and Lucia Starbuck of KUNR Public Radio are the current RFA reporters working in-state. Metz is covering the Nevada state legislature with a special focus on water, education and health care. He is based in Carson City, working from the AP office in the Nevada Press Foundation’s Rinckel Mansion headquarters.
Starbuck is covering how vulnerable populations in northern Nevada are being affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition to her work with KUNR, she freelances for ThisisReno.com.