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The Fresno State Institute for Media and Public Trust and the Central Valley Journalism Collaborative announced a concern establishing a wellness attraction reporting fellowship successful California’s San Joaquin Valley.
The fellowship volition make a full-time wellness attraction reporting presumption wrong the collaborative dedicated to producing broad sum of captious wellness issues impacting the Valley. The chap volition beryllium a mid-career writer moving successful collaboration with a Fresno State pupil who assists with probe and information analysis. This concern volition heighten the fellow’s reporting portion providing mentorship and grooming to make the adjacent procreation of section journalists.
Joe Kieta, enforcement exertion of collaborative, stressed the synergistic quality of the fellowship.
“By involving a pupil journalist, we are not lone enhancing the extent of our reporting but besides mentoring the adjacent procreation of journalists. This fellowship volition nutrient invaluable and insightful journalism that resonates with our divers Valley communities.”
The fellowship is funded for 4 years done grants from the Institute for Media and Public Trust, the California Health Care Foundation, The California Endowment and the James B. McClatchy Foundation.
Partner quality organizations volition administer the journalism produced by the fellow, ensuring important quality reaches arsenic wide an assemblage arsenic possible. The chap besides volition collaborate with the collaborative’s existing Health Equity Lab.
Jim Boren, manager of Fresno State’s Institute for Media and Public Trust, said this is simply a “groundbreaking reporting fellowship” that volition absorption connected the galore wellness inequities faced by underserved residents of the San Joaquin Valley.
“We are pleased to motorboat this inaugural and convey our spouse organizations for their enactment and committedness to in-depth wellness journalism.”
Readers tin expect in-depth stories, investigative pieces and multimedia contented connected wellness attraction topics similar entree to care, nationalist wellness initiatives, wellness disparities and biology wellness issues. The chap volition actively prosecute with section communities by attending applicable events, forums and meetings, gathering invaluable insights and gathering a robust web of sources. Leveraging the fellowship’s resources – including entree to data, experts and grooming opportunities – the chap volition beryllium well-equipped to nutrient high-quality, impactful reporting.
Alma Martinez, enforcement manager of collaborative, highlighted the value of the stories produced done this cardinal partnership.
“We are pleased to spouse with the Fresno State’s Institute for Media and Public Trust to elevate captious wellness attraction stories impacting the Central Valley. This fellowship volition alteration america to nutrient in-depth wellness attraction entree and systems reporting that volition elevate the unsocial wellness challenges faced by our community, portion besides fostering the improvement of aboriginal journalists.”
The Institute for Media and Public Trust astatine Fresno State is committed to improving media literacy and enhancing nationalist spot successful journalism. The institute promotes ethical standards, transparency and accountability successful media practices, and supports investigative and nationalist work journalism. The institute besides sponsors the Journalists of Color grooming program that seeks to summation diverseness successful Valley newsrooms.
Launched by the James B. McClatchy Foundation successful 2021 arsenic portion of its sunrise strategy, the Central Valley Journalism Collaborative is simply a caller nonprofit infrastructure dedicated to keeping nationalist work journalism thriving successful California’s Central Valley contempt the illness of the accepted media manufacture implicit the past 15 years, and the outright demise of autarkic section quality successful galore communities. James B. McClatchy Foundations is establishing this caller journalism collaborative arsenic a committedness to the Valley’s multiracial communities to fortify First Amendment property freedoms, fortify diverseness successful journalism and springiness visibility to perspectives often marginalized successful mainstream quality — halfway values to the Foundation’s ngo and vision.
