Across West Virginia, public decisions are increasingly made without journalists or residents in the room. Legislative committees meet. Boards vote. Agencies set policies that shape daily life. In many rural communities, no one is consistently there to witness and document what happened, and that absence is an accountability problem.
Pivot grantee partner, Black by God, is addressing that gap through its Folk Reporters program, a community-powered initiative that trains residents to cover legislative sessions and public meetings. Inspired by City Bureau’s Documenters Network, the program invites community members into the reporting process as civic witnesses.
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