Propublica announced on Wednesday a A new call for offers To select the next five partners in it Local networking network. These editorial boards will be selected to participate in the organization 50 State InitiativePartnership commitment with one editorial board from each state until 2029. The deadline for application is July 21 at 5:00 pm in the east. Reporters selected for the annual program will start work on October 1, 2025.
Thanks to this partnership, PROPBLICA will cover the information organizations for the salary of the selected reporter (up to $ 75,000 plus the scholarship benefits) so they can spend a year working full -time on the journalism project accounting that matters for their communities. In addition, PROPBLICA provides support editing, and our data, research, visual narrative, graphics, design, audience and interaction examination.
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As part of the 50 state initiative, propublica is currently working with the editorial offices of the first 10 countries; Five more editions will start in July. Reporting with the Mirror Connecticut on towing a car in the state have caused legislative reforms for the overhaul of tow law that contribute to towing companies at the expense of drivers. In Georgia, we documented as a requirement of the state Medicaid, which is forecasted as a model for the rest of the country, has fell short and cost millions. And in Tennessee we showed how one company greatly expanded the use of a unique loan with high interests then continued sue more than 100,000 borrowers.
“It is exciting to see that the local network PROPBLICA reporting resoints Wrooms in all regions of the country,” said Sarah Blabut, assistant head of the propublica editor. “With each additional condition, we can bring urgent local problems to readers across the country.”
The 50 state initiative expands the propublica work sphere at the local and regional level, which includes a growing team of journalists reporting communities across the country and insurmountable partnerships with local information organizations through the LRN program.
The initiative expands our support Local journalismWhich now includes LRN together with specialized reporting centers in the Midwestern, South, Southwest and northwest, as well as an investigation in Texas in partnership with Texas Tribune. Propublica has more than 25 employees and more than 20 partnership reports across the country that promote regional and local accountability, providing people from world -level journalism that can lead to measuring changes in their communities.
LRN began in January 2018, trying to help correct the lack of investigative reporting at the local level. Since then, this has led to a partnership with about 80 information organizations across the country.
