Kentucky
Kentucky Lantern, a nonprofit news outlet, will cover state policy and politics
A Frankfort-based nonprofit information service that can focus its reporting on Kentucky coverage and politics is about to launch on Nov. 30. Its reporting and commentary will run free to readers with no paywall, subscription charge or promoting.
The Kentucky Lantern “is a part of the nonprofit States Newsroom, a community of free digital information operations in additional than 30 states working to fill gaps in state authorities protection brought on by newspaper layoffs,” editor Jamie Lucke mentioned Monday in a press launch.
Lucke, who grew up in Morehead, has greater than 40 years of expertise in newspaper journalism. She is a former Lexington Herald-Chief reporter, the place she lined schooling, authorities and politics earlier than changing into an editorial author.
Lucke will lead three full-time reporters, together with Liam Niemeyer, who most lately was assistant information director for WKMS, the general public radio station at Murray State College. The station and Hoptown Chronicle have a content-sharing settlement, and a number of other tales by Niemeyer have been printed by Hoptown Chronicle.
Becoming a member of Niemeyer at Kentucky Lantern are McKenna Horsley and Sarah Ladd.
Horsley is a former managing editor for the College of Kentucky scholar newspaper, the Kentucky Kernel. Most lately she was a reporter for The Herald-Dispatch in Huntington, West Virginia.
Ladd was a part of the Courier Journal newspaper staff that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for protection of the killing of Breonna Taylor and systemic racism in Louisville. She graduated from the College of Kentucky and is finishing a grasp of high-quality arts in writing at Spalding College. Ladd grew up on a farm in Western Kentucky.
“All of us who’re placing out the Lantern actually care about Kentucky,” Lucke mentioned within the launch. “We’re dedicated to doing the sort of journalism that may assist make Kentucky a fairer, higher place for everybody. We wish to give readers incisive journalism that holds these in energy accountable to the individuals. There’s no scarcity of tales to be informed and inquiries to be requested and investigated. That is an thrilling alternative.”
As a nonprofit, Kentucky Lantern will get monetary assist from States Newsroom, foundations and particular person donors.
