The
Walton Family Foundation is giving the
Missouri School of Journalism $2.47 million over the next three years to expand the
Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, a network of journalists that covers agriculture, water and environmental issues in the basin and makes articles free to publish. The foundation's additional support will fund a second cohort of 10 journalists starting next summer, through a partnership with
Report for America. They will get training from the J-school and the
Society of Environmental Journalists. Associate Professor Sara Shipley Hiles, the desk's executive director, said it wants a wider range of newsrooms. Applications from newsrooms are due Sept. 18.
James Rainey of the
Los Angeles Times tells how billionaire Wendy McCaw made a "tortured plaything" of the
Santa Barbara News-Press, which closed July 21. The closure "leaves Santa Barbara with a few online news sources and a solid alternative weekly, the
Independent," the Times reports. "But those outlets collectively do not employ the number of journalists who once powered the News-Press."
Ken Tingley, retired editor of
The Post-Star in Glens Falls, N.Y., has published
The Last American Editor, Vol. 2, a collection of 90 stories and columns that "explore particular themes or periods of a person’s life that best represent Small-Town America," says
his come-on.
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