A special thanks to the funders and partners of The Courier Journal
While we depend each day on our subscribers to help us continue our mission of informing the public and being a watchdog over those in power, we also have funders and partners to recognize.
Their support has not only allowed us to maintain the level of work expected from us, but it has also opened new doors to additional coverage areas.
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Here’s a rundown of that support in 2022:
The Howard G. Buffett Foundation
While based in Louisville, Kentucky, you may have noticed The Courier Journal does a lot of stories on the effects that Mexican criminal drug gangs have on the people of the U.S. and Mexico.
That’s made possible by funding from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, whose mission is “to catalyze transformational change to improve the standard of living and quality of life, particularly for the world’s most impoverished and marginalized populations.”
By way of correspondents in Mexico and Beth Warren, a journalist based in the U.S., The Courier Journal has consistently produced hard-hitting journalism that traces cartel-based activity to the drugs found in places like Kentucky, where drug overdoses killed 2,250 people in 2021.
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Report for America
The Courier Journal welcomed Connor Giffin, its first Report for America corps member, in June 2022.
Report for America, an initiative of the GroundTruth Project, began five years ago and works to place reporters in newsrooms across the nation. The program helps newsrooms bolster their roles while putting their corps members into supportive positions where they can make a difference.
The collaboration has allowed us to add Giffin as a full-time environmental reporter, a beat that hasn’t been dedicated solely for several years.
Report for America contributes a portion of the reporter’s annual salary, The Courier Journal covers a portion, and the remainder needs to be found through fundraising from foundations and individual donors.
If you would like to help us continue our environmental coverage, please consider donating at courier-journal.com/RFA.
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USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism
The University of Southern California’s Annenberg Center for Health Journalism awarded a grant to The Courier Journal’s Stephanie Kuzydym to report on the lack of health care on high school sports sidelines.
This project, to appear in 2023, examines how schools nationally aren’t doing enough to protect high school athletes, the data behind deaths during practices and games and what could be done to make safer sidelines in the future.
Boyd’s Station
The year 2022 also saw the first collaboration between The Courier Journal and Boyd's Station, a Kentucky nonprofit that provides emerging artists and student journalists a rural place to hone their craft.
A college-age reporter and photographers spend the summer at the Cynthiana location, working on project stories that later appear in mainstream publications.
Sarah Hume was the recipient of the 2022 Mary Withers Rural Writing Fellowship grant at Boyd's Station. Her two stories, which appeared in The Courier Journal, focused on the dangers of aging low-head dams and the vanishing family cemeteries that dot the landscape around Cynthiana and across the commonwealth.
We sincerely appreciate our funding and contributing partners and look forward to more collaboration with these groups and others in 2023.
Thank you!
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