The Desk welcomes new assistant editorial director and data journalist
Two new additions to the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk bring expertise in science journalism.
Our latest collaborative project, free to republish, explores recent legal and policy changes impacting wetlands, and the many ways people interact with these landscapes in the Mississippi River Basin.
This position contributes to editing and digital production, impact tracking and story distribution, and project strategy and administration. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis beginning on July 18, 2024.
Our latest collaborative project, free to republish, looks at the farming practices -- and overlooked solutions -- that pump fertilizer runoff into the Gulf of Mexico, causing a persistent "dead zone" and more impacts upstream.
These positions will support outreach and mentorship for our growing environmental journalism collaborative. Applications are due June 10, 2024.
Based in local newsrooms across the nation’s largest watershed, the new cohort will work alongside the award-winning journalism collaborative’s founding members to produce regional environmental coverage that is free for any news outlet to republish.
These outlets will grow the Ag & Water Desk's reach across the nation's largest watershed alongside the award-winning journalism collaborative’s founding partners. Journalists can apply now for 11 new reporting positions.
Our collaborative project on increasing rainfall in the Mississippi River basin was honored by the Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards.
Expand your outlet's coverage of pressing environmental news in your region with a new reporter, supported by Report for America, as part of the Ag & Water Desk team.
The $2.47 million grant extends the Walton Family Foundation's support of the Desk for three more years and represents a more than $1 million increase over the local reporting network's founding grant in 2021.
The series, available to publish for free, looks at how the Mississippi River basin is adapting to increased rainfall.
The journalists at newsrooms across the basin will begin work June 1 as part of Report for America, a national journalism service program.
Partnership will help important environmental news reach the widest possible audience.
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