Packet receives grant to bolster coverage of climate change, environment across SC
The Island Packet, in collaboration with McClatchy properties across South Carolina, will add a full-time climate change and environment reporter starting in early 2022, thanks to a grant from The Energy Foundation. The Energy Foundation is a private nonprofit foundation supporting education and analysis to promote nonpartisan policy solutions that advance renewable energy and energy efficiency.
“We’re grateful to The Energy Foundation for recognizing that credible and independent news and information on critical issues can help solve intractable problems,” said Brian Tolley, president and editor of McClatchy South Carolina properties The State, The Island Packet and The Beaufort Gazette, and The Sun News.
The Island Packet is currently recruiting for the position, with the intention of having the reporter begin in January 2022. The position is one of over 100 open newsroom roles across McClatchy.
With the support of Journalism Funding Partners and other organizations, The Island Packet and McClatchy papers across South Carolina increasingly partner with philanthropic foundations and community supporters to help add reporting capacity on key public interest issues.
Philanthropy-supported McClatchy journalists across South Carolina have covered the COVID-19 pandemic, local housing and affordability issues in Columbia and Myrtle Beach, and workforce development issues in Beaufort County.
In all of these partnerships, McClatchy evaluates and hires the journalists and retains control over all editorial content. To make a contribution to help support The Island Packet’s local news coverage, go to islandpacket.com/donate.
