National Public Radio is creating a new journalism hub in the Midwest that will emphasize investigative reporting and underserved communities in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa. The hub, funded through a $4.7 million grant from philanthropists Eric and Wendy Schmidt, means that these states will get an infusion of money while two huge news events…
Matt Furber is used to being told “no” for man-on-the-street interviews. But Furber, who writes for The New York Times as a freelancer, was caught off guard when a man saw him writing on his reporter pad inside of Cup Foods in Minneapolis, where 46-year-old George Floyd had been killed by police earlier that week.…
Should I make the 15-hour drive? How often would I have to stop for gas or food? How many touch points would that entail? If I do fly, what will the airport terminals be like? Will I get my own row on the plane?
After swift community backlash over the publication of a racist cartoon, the patriarch of a Missouri newspaper and two of his daughters resigned last week. The June 10 cartoon in the Washington Missourian–a response to the nationwide uprising over the death of George Floyd– shows a black man attempting to steal a white woman’s purse.…
In 2015, Jason Velásquez, a farmer, tax assessor and one-time marketing director for a Shakespeare theater company, started an online news site because he believed–and still does–in the importance of local news. When he founded The Greylock Glass in January of that year, the two main papers in the Berkshires in western Massachusetts had just…