Kevin Douglas Grant

Kevin Douglas Grant is the outgoing Chief Development and Partnerships Officer at The GroundTruth Project, building revenue-generating partnerships in support of Report for America and Report for the World.

Previously Senior Editor of Special Reports at GlobalPost, he has led reporting projects around the world and his work has been recognized by the Edward R. Murrow, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University and Online Journalism Awards among others. Over the last 10 years, he has helped to support more than 300 reporting fellows producing in-depth work on social justice issues in more than 50 countries.

Grant is a recent graduate of the Media Transformation Challenge at Poynter, and is presently working on a project about religious leaders worldwide as a journalism fellow at USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture.

He holds an M.A. in Digital Journalism from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School, where he was a Dean’s Scholar and the founding Executive Editor of Annenberg’s pioneering news organization Neon Tommy. Grant is also the former Operations Director of semantic news aggregator Inform.com.

Grant is currently based in Washington, D.C., where he serves as a capstone adviser and adjunct professor of journalism at Georgetown University.

Americas

Voting rights are civil rights

WASHINGTON — The Voting Rights Act, a cornerstone of the civil rights era, passed Congress in 1965 to remove...

Americas

Georgia’s election lingers in the shadows of voter suppression

UPDATE (November 13, 2018): A federal court ruled Monday night that Georgia must count all votes before delivering...

Democracy

Voter disenfranchisement is at the core of Florida’s recount

UPDATE (November 15, 2018): A federal judge ruled that voters whose ballots were rejected because their signatures didn't...

Democracy

ProPublica’s Electionland, a sweeping reporting project for an historic election

NEW YORK — When ProPublica’s Electionland project launched in 2016 to cover voting issues on Election Day, it was...

Democracy

In a fateful election, GroundTruth reports on voter suppression

NEW YORK — The polls are open on a fateful and historic midterm election that has already inspired record...

Myanmar Police officers stand on guard outside a courtroom in Insein Township during Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo's trial.

Democracy

Myanmar’s press makes a stand against censorship

Myanmar’s press makes a stand against censorship: Introduction WASHINGTON — Journalists across Myanmar are risking their own safety...

Faith

Cuba’s faithful seek more rights in an era of slow reform

HAVANA — As she jogged along the oceanside promenade known as the Malecón, a woman stopped to hug...

Fellowships

Building trust locally through Report for America

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida — Journalism doesn’t work without trust. And the American public’s trust in “the media” has steadily...

Religious beliefs, and the lack of it, help explain the political views Koreans hold. (Alan Mittelstaedt/GroundTruth)

Faith

Introduction: Religious divisions in South Korea inform attitudes on North Korea, social issues

SEOUL, South Korea — Travelers passing through Seoul Station escaped the spring rain and crowded around TV screens...

For young Cubans, one Cuban president is the same as another. (Kevin Grant/GroundTruth)

Democracy

As the Castro dynasty ends, young Cubans feel stuck

HAVANA — The ascendance of Miguel Díaz-Canel, the first Cuban president not named Castro since the revolution, has...

Supporters of Black Lives Matter join an estimated 500,000 marchers at the March For Our Lives rally in Washington, D.C. on March 24, 2018. (Photo by Kevin Grant)

Democracy

With March for Our Lives, an inclusive youth movement is born

WASHINGTON — DeVontae Gliss shivered in the morning cold as he held a sign honoring his late mother,...

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