Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald selected for 2020 Report for America service program

The Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald each has been selected to take part in Report for America, a national service program that places talented emerging journalists in local newsrooms to tackle under-covered topics and communities in the United States.

Grants from Report for America — matched by the Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald — will enable each newsroom to add a reporter during 2020. In addition, el Nuevo Herald will extend the term of a second RFA corps member hired in 2019.

Last year, Report for America helped fund 59 reporting positions across the country. In 2020, it will provide grants for 250 reporting positions in 164 newsrooms, representing 46 states, plus Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. Of those, 28 corps members will be joining 20 different newsrooms in the McClatchy Company, which owns the Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald. An additional eight corps members will be entering their second year working in McClatchy newsrooms

The Miami Herald’s RFA corps member will be part of a larger Herald effort to focus on the issue of economic mobility — the ability of individuals and families in South Florida to improve their economic standing in an environment of rising housing costs and relatively flat wages.

The el Nuevo Herald RFA correspondent will focus on covering the 2020 presidential election through a Hispanic/Latino prism.

Readers from both news outlets will benefit from the stories produced by the RFA corps members.

“We are thrilled to be able to broaden the scope of our news coverage for our English-language and Spanish-language readers in partnership with Report for America,” said Aminda Marqués González, publisher and executive editor of el Nuevo Herald and the Miami Herald.