100 Days in Appalachia is pleased to announce Christopher Jones will join our team as a member of the 2020 Report For America reporting corps. Report for America is a national service program that places journalists into local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues and communities. It is an initiative […]
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Preparing Journalism Students for a New Economic Reality in the Wake of COVID-19
As a nation comes together in self isolation and social distancing, I’ve been adapting my face-to-face journalism courses that promote in-the-field experiences for a new virtual and remote reality. I have never felt such a feeling of unknown. Yet I know I’m not alone. I am an assistant professor teaching […]
Read MoreI Spent Three Years Running a Collaboration Across Newsrooms. Here’s What I Learned.
ProPublica worked with close to 200 newsrooms in the U.S. to crowdsource hate crimes and bias incidents as part of our Documenting Hate project. The collaboration is wrapping up, but its lessons are worth remembering. ProPublica’s Documenting Hate collaboration comes to a close next month after nearly three years. It brought together […]
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100 Days in Appalachia and West Virginia University’s Reed College of Media seek a full-time Visiting Practitioner-in-residence for a position beginning in January 2020. 100 Days in Appalachia and West Virginia University’s Reed College of Media are seeking a unique candidate with an enthusiasm for exploring the journalistic and scholarly […]
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