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Iowa Capital Dispatch welcomes Report for America corps member [1]

['Iowa Capital Dispatch Staff', 'More From Author', '- April']

Date: 2023-05

Iowa Capital Dispatch will add a Report for America corps member beginning this summer to cover higher education.

Starting in July, Brooklyn Draisey will cover Iowa’s regents universities, private colleges and community colleges, as well as the effect of public policy on access to higher education. She will also explore how post-secondary institutions are meeting Iowa’s workforce needs.

Draisey, a 2021 University of Iowa graduate, will bring experience from several Iowa newspapers, including the Quad-City Times and Cedar Rapids Gazette.

She is among more than 60 reporters and photojournalists that Report for America is placing in new positions at local newsrooms across the country this summer. These new corps members join hundreds more who will continue reporting on undercovered communities and topics for their second or third years in the national service program.

Report for America, a national service program, has now matched more than 600 journalists with local newspapers, public radio stations, digital platforms, and television outlets, since its launch in 2017.

“Beyond talented reporters and photojournalists, we actively sought out individuals who see journalism as a calling, who want to make a difference within their communities,” said Earl Johnson, vice president of recruitment and alumni engagement at Report for America. “Together, our early-career and experienced corps members will produce tens of thousands of articles on critically undercovered topics — schools, government, health care, the environment, communities of color, and more.”

To learn more about Report for America and its efforts to strengthen communities through public service journalism, please visit https://www.reportforamerica.org/

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