Report For America journalist will cover South Dakota politics, rural issues

A brand new full-time reporter will cowl South Dakota politics and points starting this month by way of the nationwide service program Report for America.

Jason Harward will start his project for Discussion board Information Service on June 27. His work will likely be discovered on the web sites and newspapers of Discussion board Communications Co., together with the

Mitchell Republic

.

He’ll report on the South Dakota Legislature and politics at a time when Gov. Kristi Noem is being talked about as a possible 2024 presidential candidate. As well as, he’ll roam undercovered areas to inform tales concerning the rural economic system, well being care and tribal and immigrant communities. These staff are a serious a part of the agriculture and meatpacking industries.

Earlier than starting with the Report for America corps, Harward will earn his bachelor’s diploma in journalism at Northwestern College. There, he labored with the Medill Information Service in Washington, D.C., the place he produced day by day and enterprise tales from the halls of Congress, with a deal with the Biden administration home agenda, amongst different subjects. Harward additionally has been a reporter and government producer for the Northwestern Information Community in Evanston, Illinois. He additionally has interned at KSAT-12 Information in San Antonio, Texas, and on the Wilmette Watch in Wilmette, Illinois.

Harward is amongst greater than 300 journalists in Report for America’s 2022-23 reporting corps. The cohort, which incorporates a lot of corps members returning for a second or third 12 months, will be part of the staffs of greater than 200 native information organizations throughout all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and Guam.

“Report for America gives a singular alternative for journalists to pursue significant, native beat reporting that sadly is lacking from lots of right this moment’s newsrooms,” Earl Johnson, director of admissions at Report for America, stated in an announcement. “Collectively, our rising and skilled corps members will produce tens of 1000’s of articles on critically undercovered subjects — faculties, authorities, well being care, the surroundings, communities of colour, and extra.”

Report for America is a nationwide service program that locations journalists into native newsrooms to report on under-covered points and communities. It’s an initiative of

The GroundTruth Venture

, a nonprofit journalism group.

Report for America’s work is made doable by the Knight Basis, Meta Journalism Venture, Google Information Initiative, Hilton Basis, Microsoft, SpringPoint Companions, Natasha and Dirk Ziff, Joyce Basis, Robert Wooden Johnson Basis, the Company for Public Broadcasting, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Simply Belief, Lumina Basis, Hearthland Basis, Posner Basis, Arthur Vining Davis Basis, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Jonathan Logan Household Basis, Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Basis, Henry L. Kimelman Basis, the Commonwealth Fund, Tow Basis, Heising-Simons Basis, Park Basis, Evelyn Y. Davis Basis, and different main philanthropic companions.

To study extra about Report for America and its efforts to strengthen communities by way of public service journalism, go to

www.reportforamerica.org.