ProPublica’s Rising Reporters Program, now in its eighth yr, is targeted on offering monetary sources and mentorship to college students for whom investigative journalism may in any other case be inaccessible, to allow them to pursue early profession alternatives within the subject.
Members obtain a $9,000 stipend, a visit to the annual NICAR investigative journalism convention, occasional coaching and displays by audio system. They’ll even be paired one-on-one with ProPublica journalists, who can assist counsel them on tales, construct their connections within the business and expose them to the numerous paths for careers in investigative journalism. Previous Rising Reporters have gone on to work at The New York Instances, The Atlantic, THE CITY, Vox and different shops.
Our objective is to encourage the subsequent technology of journalists who search to shine a light-weight on abuses of energy and produce tales of ethical drive that provoke change. In selecting the category, we search for college students who show an early dedication to journalism as a profession, by internships, work at native information shops or campus publications. And the place these alternatives — which are sometimes unpaid — aren’t accessible, we search for different methods the scholar has proven an eagerness and drive to study the craft.
The 2022-2023 educational yr’s class of excellent scholar journalists are from Florida and New Mexico, Colorado and Shanghai. They signify a variety of collegiate journeys, and their want to study and pursue bold, necessary tales impressed us. Via their work, the scholars have already proven not solely their dedication to the craft, however a craving to inform tales with the potential for affect.
They’ve investigated college labor disputes and inaccurate medical health insurance directories that may result in large payments for sufferers. They’ve helped launch hyperlocal information shops and labored as full-time reporters along with carrying a full course load. A few of them are editors and reporters at their faculty newspapers, whereas others are getting ready to search for their first skilled newsroom jobs.
We’re so excited to assist them.
Meet our 2022 class:
Chad Bradley is a senior on the Walter Cronkite Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication majoring in journalism and minoring in American Indian research. Bradley’s reporting focuses on indigenous communities and tribal nations, and he hopes to enhance protection and understanding of the problems Indigenous folks face. They presently fact-check with PolitiFact Arizona for the 2022 midterm elections and beforehand reported for Carnegie-Knight News21 and Cronkite Information. Bradley is from northwestern New Mexico and is a member of the Navajo Nation.
Kevin Palomino is a junior on the College of Oklahoma majoring in journalism and minoring in worldwide research. Palomino serves because the president of his faculty’s chapter of the Nationwide Affiliation of Hispanic Journalists. For the previous two years, he was a reporter at Telemundo Oklahoma, overlaying information tales starting from loss of life penalty executions to Oklahoma’s wild, extreme climate. Palomino was born in Chihuahua, Mexico, and immigrated to Oklahoma along with his household in 2005.
Yiwen Lu is a senior finding out economics and political science at College of Chicago, the place she serves because the managing editor for The Chicago Maroon. Her reporting focuses on topics on the intersection of enterprise and know-how. Lu beforehand labored at The Washington Submit, USA TODAY, NBC Chicago and The Charlotte Observer. She additionally participated within the Politico Pupil Journalism Institute and the Asian American Journalists Affiliation’s Voices program in 2022. Lu is from Shanghai, China.
Alexandra Caban-Echevarria is a senior at Muhlenberg Faculty, majoring in each media & communication and English. She is a managing editor at The Muhlenberg Weekly and the assistant editor of the Allentown Voice, a nonprofit information undertaking overlaying Allentown’s reasonably priced housing disaster. She labored as a part of the inaugural staff of journalists on the undertaking and presently runs the undertaking’s social media channels.
Alex Perry is a junior at Northwestern College double majoring in economics and journalism with a minor in information science. Presently a part-time affiliate copy editor at Axios, Perry has interned on the Pittsburgh Submit-Gazette, The Macon Telegraph and the Johns Creek Herald. She can also be presently a managing editor at The Each day Northwestern. She’s enthusiastic about investigative enterprise journalism, in addition to the enterprise of journalism, and needs to report on the media business.
Nadia Bey is a senior at Duke College, the place she is digital technique director and former managing editor of the every day scholar newspaper, The Chronicle. Bey was the primary intern on McClatchy’s North Carolina investigations staff, writing about well being, coverage and gun violence for The Charlotte Observer and its sister papers in summer time 2022. Her pursuits embody public well being, information, schooling and labor. She is from Huntersville, North Carolina.
Cameron Pugh is a senior at Williams Faculty, the place he research English and Africana research. Pugh presently serves because the managing editor of The Williams File, and earlier than that he served as a piece editor for the paper’s arts part. He has been an investigative reporting intern at GBH Information — at Boston’s native NPR station — the place he contributed to overlaying labor trafficking in Massachusetts and past. He’s from Port St. Lucie, Florida.
Irie Sentner is a junior at Columbia College finding out political science and inventive nonfiction. He serves because the college information editor for the Columbia Each day Spectator, is an incoming intern on the NBC Information digital politics desk and beforehand interned for the New York Submit. He’s initially from Durango, Colorado.
