Maine Monitor’s Rose Lundy selected for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network

The Maine Monitor and well being reporter Rose Lundy are amongst 5 new companion newsrooms and journalists chosen to affix the Native Reporting Community of ProPublica, a nationally acclaimed nonprofit group that “produces investigative journalism with ethical pressure.”

ProPublica launched the Native Reporting Community initially of 2018 to spice up investigative journalism in native newsrooms. It has since labored with practically 60 information organizations.

Lundy joins a bunch of Native Reporting Community reporters primarily based at newsrooms throughout the U.S., together with Robin Urevich of Capital & Most important in California, Becca Savransky of the Idaho Statesman, Jessica Miller of The Salt Lake Tribune and Brandi Kellam of the Virginia Middle for Investigative Journalism at WHRO.

The group will start their respective year-long investigative tasks on Nov. 1.

“We’re delighted that Rose has been chosen to pursue this mission for The Maine Monitor, and we’re tremendously grateful to ProPublica,” stated David Dahl, the editor of The Maine Monitor. “That is one other instance of the Monitor’s dedication to investigative and enterprise reporting.”

Earlier than becoming a member of the Monitor, Lundy lined native authorities for The Day by day Information, a newspaper in Washington state. She has written award-winning tales about price-gouging in cellular dwelling parks, warmth and meals insecurity, achievement gaps throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and nursing dwelling closures.

Lundy earned a level in journalism from the College of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2020, she moved to Portland to cowl the pandemic as a Report for America corps member.

The Maine Monitor was additionally a member of the Native Reporting Community in 2020 when Samantha Hogan produced her award-winning “Defenseless” collection that investigated how Maine handles authorized providers for the poor.

The Maine Monitor and ProPublica discovered that greater than 1 / 4 of Maine attorneys disciplined previously decade for critical skilled misconduct have been employed as legal professionals for the poor. Intercourse crimes and felony convictions have been among the many most extreme infractions neglected in the one state with out public defenders.

The Native Reporting Community is a part of ProPublica’s native initiative, which additionally consists of workplaces within the Midwest, South and Southwest, plus an investigative unit in partnership with The Texas Tribune.