Religion plays a significant role in communities across the country, from shaping lawmakers’ approach to legislation to how people view themselves and their neighbors. Understanding these nuances as a journalist can be difficult, especially when many local newsrooms struggle to maintain dedicated coverage of any beat, let alone religion.
Report for America is building a coalition of partners to reverse this, thanks to philanthropic support from the Henry Luce Foundation and Radiant Foundation, and through training and editorial guidance from the Religion News Association and Religion News Service.
“By partnering together, we are poised to double the size of our religion reporting corps in 2024, including both religion-exclusive and religion-related beats,” said Kim Kleman, executive director of Report for America. “This will allow newsrooms to do deep reporting on stories where faith meets gender, education, politics and democracy itself.”
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