The Institute for Media and Public Trust astatine Fresno State launched a wellness reporting fellowship dedicated to uncovering and documenting the persistent wellness inequities faced by residents of the San Joaquin Valley, 1 of California’s astir underserved regions.
By spotlighting these disparities, the fellowship seeks to thrust awareness, pass nationalist argumentation and empower the assemblage with captious accusation astir their wellness and well-being.
Veteran writer Tim Sheehan, known for extensively reporting Central California’s astir pressing issues, volition service arsenic the inaugural fellow. Additionally, a Fresno State journalism pupil volition enactment arsenic a probe assistant, providing captious enactment portion gaining valuable, hands-on acquisition successful investigative wellness journalism.
Jim Boren, enforcement manager of the Institute for Media and Public Trust astatine Fresno State, said this fellowship has agelong been a cornerstone extremity of the institute.
“This programme not lone elevates in-depth reporting successful the Valley’s journalism scenery but besides advances our ngo to fortify section journalism,” Boren said. “By including a pupil writer successful the program, we’re besides fostering the adjacent procreation of reporters and enhancing the pipeline of young endowment entering the field.”
The Central Valley Journalism Collaborative volition location the journalism chap successful its newsroom, and each enactment produced done the fellowship volition beryllium disposable astatine nary complaint to quality outlets successful the Central Valley.
“This wellness attraction reporting fellowship volition get to the basal of wellness attraction entree issues successful the region, including our wellness information nett strategy for susceptible communities, superior and specialty attraction availability and the contiguous and aboriginal workforce realities,” said Alma Martinez, enforcement manager of the Central Valley Journalism Collaborative. “The sum produced by this unsocial task volition radiance a airy connected the issues that person for galore years been near retired of the headlines.”
The fellowship is made imaginable done the generous enactment of The California Endowment, the California Health Care Foundation, the James B. McClatchy Foundation and the Institute for Media and Public Trust. Their shared committedness to equitable wellness entree and high-quality journalism underscores the value of this endeavor.
In summation to the wellness attraction fellowship, the Institute for Media and Public Trust besides conducts grooming programs for pupil and nonrecreational journalists, funds a journalism grooming programme for students of color, works to span the trust spread betwixt quality consumers and quality outlets and hosts seminars and nationalist programs connected misinformation challenges connected the internet.
