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May 2018

Navigator

Tips for reporting meaningful stories without the guarantees of a free press

While the United States has enshrined press freedom in the first amendment to the Constitution, U.S. journalists are...

May 30, 2018
A New Light

An endless fight for home

I’ve been living in Mexico since 2010, and I mainly focus on the struggles of indigenous groups in...

May 25, 2018
Journalist May Jeong talks to Democracy Now from Kabul, Afghanistan on February 1, 2018. (Screenshot from Democracy Now)
Navigator

Getting your bearings in a new place as a freelance foreign correspondent

May Jeong only recently moved back to the U.S. after spending four years as a freelance foreign correspondent...

May 20, 2018
Announcements

Report for America announces 2018 Corps Members

NEW YORK — Report for America, a non-partisan national service program that places journalists into local newsrooms, has...

May 17, 2018
Report for America corps members (standing, from left) Caity Coyne, Molly Born and Will Wright, arrived in West Virginia this week to meet their host news organizations and to receive training from GroundTruth and other partners. (Photo by Jesse Wright/WVPB)
Announcements

GroundTruth announces new funding partnerships to build capacity for Report For America to serve local communities

BOSTON — The GroundTruth Project, a nonprofit news organization that supports and inspires a new generation of journalists,...

May 16, 2018
Culture and Identity

The view from Gaza as US moves embassy to Jerusalem

Editor's note: Palestinian officials say at least 55 people have been killed by Israeli fire in the latest...

May 14, 2018
A New Light

#Kayleestrong

On February 1, 2018 Kaylee Marshfield turned 6 years old. It was also the day her parents received...

May 10, 2018
Virginia Street at McFarland Street, circa 1912. The Charleston Daily Mail, at left, moved across the street in 1927 into the building it currently occupies. (Archival image from Charleston Gazette-Mail / Courtesy of James D. Scarbro Jr.)
Americas

Despite a sale and layoffs, West Virginia newspaper continues its tradition of ‘sustained outrage’

CHARLESTON, West Virginia — This town’s daily newspaper, the Gazette-Mail, is housed in a classic 1920s building made of...

May 09, 2018
Caitlin McNally, a documentary filmmaker, working on a GroundTruth fellowship in Antarctica. (Courtesy of Caitlin McNally)
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Fellowship Testimonials

Hear from some of our fellows on the value of their GroundTruth experience. Julie Turkewitz, national correspondent for...

May 07, 2018
A Sisi banner hangs in Cairo. After a democratic election in 2012 that put the Muslim Brotherhood in power, Sisi led a coup that overthrew the democratically-elected president, and banned the Muslim Brotherhood and pro-democracy demonstrators. (Roger Anis/GroundTruth)
Rights

Egyptian citizens, journalists face worsening restrictions on expression under Sisi regime

In 2011, when Egypt was pulsating with post-revolution possibility, I received a grant from the Pulitzer Center to...

May 03, 2018
GroundTruth Fellow Johnny Wu photographs a fisherman on a boat in Inle Lake, Southern Shan State, Myanmar. (Natalie Keyssar/GroundTruth)
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Donate to GroundTruth and get a photo book in appreciation

Help GroundTruth continue its mission of supporting emerging journalists report on the most pressing issues of their time....

May 03, 2018
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