Journalist Phillip Powell to cowl agriculture and the atmosphere for the Arkansas Occasions

A recent crop of expertise is graduating from faculty journalism applications this time of 12 months, and the Arkansas Occasions has picked Phillip Powell to be our new atmosphere and agriculture reporter.

Powell will be part of our editorial workforce this summer season as a part of Report for America’s Mississippi River Basin Ag and Water Desk. Report for America is a nationwide program that recruits rising journalists and locations them in newsrooms to cowl under-reported matters and communities.

We’re excited to companion with Report for America and thrilled Powell can be becoming a member of us. We’ve been remiss in masking Arkansas’s prime financial sector and environmental points in addition to we’d like, however we really feel assured our new reporter will assist us repair that.

We all know Powell goes to be swell at it as a result of he’s written for us already! From his present base in Washington, D.C., Powell has helped us keep watch over Arkansas’s congressional delegation. (Here’s a story he put collectively in January on SNAP advantages and work necessities.)

A Hendrix graduate now at Northwestern College’s Medill College, Powell appears excited to return again house to Arkansas.

He can be considered one of almost 60 reporters and photojournalists taking up new positions in newsrooms throughout the nation this summer season in partnership with Report for America. These new corps members be part of a whole bunch extra corps members of their second or third 12 months with the nationwide service program.

Report for America has now matched greater than 650 journalists with native newspapers, public radio stations, digital platforms and tv shops since its launch in 2017. It’s part of The GroundTruth Undertaking, an award-winning nonprofit devoted to rebuilding journalism from the bottom up.

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and El Dorado Information-Occasions may even welcome new Report for America corps members come July. 

The publish Journalist Phillip Powell to cover agriculture and the environment for the Arkansas Times appeared first on Arkansas Times.