The GroundTruth Project

🇮🇳 A 2019 report by India’s Hema Committee—which recently became public after years of pressure from journalists and women right’s groups—found that there is a culture of sexual harassment in the Malayalam film industry and that women are reluctant to come forward with their traumatic experiences for fear of getting kicked out of the industry. The evidence from the report suggests that powerful men within the Indian film industry, including actors, producers, and directors, used their influence to provide quid pro quo arrangements where actresses would get promotions in exchange for sexual favors or would receive threats if they didn’t comply. Learn more from Report for the World corps members Azeefa Fathima and Sukanya Shaji of The News Minute: https://lnkd.in/eHpd-CRB #India #film #journalists #pressfreedom

🚨 We're hiring! Report for America is looking for a full-time and fully remote Training Manager to lead the vision and day-to-day management of our training programs and online communities, to ensure all reporters in our program have the skills and support they need to do excellent work in their communities. The role also includes designing and implementing some training for newsroom editors and managers. Learn more and apply by Sept. 22, 2024: https://lnkd.in/ejC_inA6

Report for America corps member Lindiwe Vilakazi explains The Washington Informer's importance in covering the Black community in D.C. "The Washington Informer is almost like the cornerstone of Black press in D.C.," Vilakazi said, who has helped expand coverage of health disparities in Black communities for the newsroom. 🚨 Reminder: our newsroom application is open through Sept. 13, 2024. 🚨 If you are a Black- and Latino-owned newsroom, please apply! https://lnkd.in/eb-US7HD #applications #newsrooms #journalists #dmv #DC #press

📷 Snapshots of the #DemocraticNationalConvention from former Report for America corps member Anthony V. Anthony Vazquez is a Marine Corps veteran and photojournalist for the Chicago Sun-Times where he concentrates on the city’s south and west sides. 🗞️ GT Weekly highlighted his incredible photojournalism for the Sun-Times: https://lnkd.in/eyr26x3g #chicago #DNC24 #democraticnationalconvention #photos #journalism

To combat the stresses of academic and real-world training of healthcare workers, schools in Connecticut are experimenting with a holistic approach—a multidimensional care program that addresses physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health for healthcare students, combining conventional contemporary medical care with non-Western practices, biological-based solutions and energy therapies. For the Record-Journal, Report for America corps member Cris Villalonga-Vivoni dives into the importance of a holistic approach for healthcare students, which helps them adapt self-care techniques during and after school, while also preparing them to apply these lessons with future patients: https://lnkd.in/ebbjYksA 🗞 Subscribe: https://lnkd.in/eQKFCMSJ #healthcare #nurses #academics #hollistic #journalism #media

🎒 Despite New Jersey’s school system being ranked as one of the best in the nation, many districts fail to pass the New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum (NJQSAC,) a self-evaluation system for public school districts that occurs every three years, often struggling with the instruction and programming section, which includes several performance indicators based on standardized tests. The success of these standardized scores, however, is correlated with a district’s wealth, which superintendents say diminishes its value as a measure of school effectiveness. For NJ Spotlight News, Report for America corps member Hannah Gross explores how the state’s department of education plans to address the shortcomings of the NJQSAC to make it more equitable and focused on year-to-year growth as a measure of success: https://lnkd.in/eEimcEUr 🗞️ Sign up: https://lnkd.in/eQKFCMSJ #newjersey #education #test #school #reporter #journalism

The Democratic National Convention wrapped up yesterday with Kamala Harris accepting the nomination for president, becoming the first Black, South Asian woman to be the party’s presidential nominee. However, for Democrats, getting to this point was challenging, with some similarities to the political atmosphere of 1968, including anti-foreign war protests, a new, last-minute presidential candidate, and, the most obvious, a convention in Chicago, Illinois. But for those who were at the 1968 convention, like Professor Geoffrey Cowan of the University of Southern California, there are more differences than similarities between the two historical moments: “It feels different now, it feels more positive,” Cowan told GroundTruth’s Charles Sennott. “We were living in a world in which MLK and RFK had been assassinated and the [Vietnam] war was raging with US troops and US bombs being dropped. There was unrest in cities about civil rights and racial discrimination was rampant. Voter intimidation was a part of life in the South. Now the voter participation in the Black community is much larger. Still not good enough, but just in a completely different place. The candidate herself is Black, not something you could really even imagine in 1968.” Using Cowan’s historical perspective, along with the visual journalism of former Report for America corps member Anthony V. who was on the ground at the DNC this week, Sennott explores how the political atmospheres of 2024 and 1968 are similar yet also very different amid a general election just two months away: https://lnkd.in/eyr26x3g #DNC24 #DemocraticNationalConvention #Chicago #History #America

🇧🇷 Congrats to Report for the World newsroom partner Armando.Info and InfoAmazonia along with Colombian news collective La Liga Contra el Silencio for winning the Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award for small newsrooms from the Online News Association for their Amazon Underworld Project! The project presents a database that has mapped the presence of armed groups on the Amazonian borders of countries and includes in-depth reports on various aspects of organized crime in the region, many of which have received little or no media coverage. https://lnkd.in/ecTjBFnm #brazil #award #localnewsmatters #journalism #reporter

Maribel Perez Wadsworth, president and CEO of the Knight Foundation, discusses how local news can foster community and bring people together at a Report for America hosted panel at the Weisman Art Museum on July 18 during our national gathering in Minneapolis. “I think that we can all agree that it would be great if we reconnected again with our neighbors," Wadsworth said on the Report for America-organized panel, which was broadcast last week by MPR News with Angela Davis, along with another discussion about the state of local news in Minnesota with local journalists and newsroom leaders. We are truly thankful for Wadsworth's support — not only for this event but also as a member of our board of directors! Watch the full video: https://lnkd.in/guzp-HnD #journalism #philanthropy #sustainabilty #rfagathers24 #pressforward #supportlocal #panel #media

Thanks to their partnership with Report for America/CatchLight newsrooms like El Tecolote Newspaper have seen that "visuals are critical to serving underrepresented communities," Erika Carlos said. Now is your chance to apply to become a newsroom partner before the Sep 13. deadline: https://lnkd.in/ecGPCwMv #newsroom #apply #deadline #photography #visual