The Associated Press is adding 14 statehouse reporters for 18-month jobs through a collaboration with Report for America, a group dedicated to local reporting.
FILE - This Tuesday, April 18, 2017, file photo shows The Associated Press logo displayed at the company's headquarters, in New York. The AP is adding 14 local politics reporters for 18-month jobs through a collaboration with Report for America, a group dedicated to local reporting, the company announced Monday, Nov. 25, 2019.
Report for America recruits reporters and pays part of their salaries, putting them to work at existing news organizations. It has funded reporters at newspapers, online publications, radio and TV outlets, and other news organizations such as the AP. AP’s new reporters will be in Colorado, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina and Utah. They will be joined by a data journalist covering all 50 states. They will report on state politics and policy, as well as issues such as voter access,“An investment in AP at the statehouse is an investment in the health of an entire state news ecosystem,” Noreen Gillespie, AP’s deputy managing editor for U.S.
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