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The burgeoning journalists in The Texas Tribune’s fall fellowship program come from completely different backgrounds however share a perception within the transformative energy of journalism.
Some have already seen how their work can enhance the lives of these in communities difficult injustice.
Whereas nonetheless a pupil in Delaware, Tribune reporting fellow Xiomara Moore investigated how historic discrimination and inequities have been threatening the legacy of Black farming there, main Delaware State College to host a Black Farmers’ Convention to attach the dwindling group with state and nationwide assets and assist.
“I learned how curiosity about your local community can spark real change and impact more people than you know,” Moore wrote in her utility to the Tribune.
Engagement fellow Isabela Ocampo Restrepo is captivated with making journalism accessible to these whose first language isn’t English and desires to work on the Tribune as a result of she recognized with its mission to have interaction with Texans on essential points.
“I believe that my work as a journalist gets its full meaning when it can positively impact others,” Ocampo Restrepo wrote in her utility.
The Tribune presents paid fellowships to school college students every spring, summer time and fall. Our fellows play key roles in our most essential work, bringing reside journalism to communities throughout the state; partaking with audiences throughout digital platforms; and overlaying the biennial legislative classes, elections, and modifications to the setting and local weather, amongst different essential subjects.
See current work by Texas Tribune fellows right here.
Beneficiant donors have bolstered the Tribune’s fellowship program, establishing named fellowships such because the Dallas Press Membership Basis Fellowships, in addition to Martin Taylor’s underwriting of the Tribune HBCU Fellowships. We’re grateful for his or her assist.
The Tribune is proud to foster these fellows as they acquire priceless real-world expertise:
Houston-based occasions advertising fellow Briannah Dilworth was born in Amarillo and raised in Houston. She is a senior at Texas Southern College, pursuing a bachelor’s diploma in journalism with a focus in promoting and public relations. Briannah has served as TSU’s Miss College of Communication and because the advertising and communication aide to the affiliate vice chairman. She beforehand interned at Civil Society as a communication and media supervisor.
Jakob Maurer is an Arthur J. Burns Fellow primarily based in Austin. He resides in Frankfurt, Germany, and is a political reporter for Frankfurter Rundschau, a nationwide newspaper. As a part of the worldwide trade program, Jakob will dive deep into Texan tradition and politics, specializing in immigration and Latinx points. He studied journalism in Mainz, Germany, and Valencia, Spain. Jakob is from Regensburg, Bavaria.
Xiomara Moore is a Columbia Journalism College/Institute for Nonprofit Information reporting fellow primarily based in Austin. Raised in Delaware, she has written articles about schooling, agriculture, native companies and underrepresented communities for Delaware Public Media and Delaware State Information. She earned a bachelor’s diploma in communications from the College of Delaware and a grasp’s in journalism from Columbia College.
Isabela Ocampo Restrepo is an Austin-based engagement fellow who works intently with the Viewers staff to search out artistic methods to work together with the Tribune’s readers. She beforehand was an viewers engagement intern on the Austin American-Statesman and a social media intern for the Knight Middle for Journalism within the Americas. She was raised in Medellin, Colombia, and is getting her bachelor’s diploma in journalism from the College of Texas at Austin.
Juan Salinas II is a Dallas Press Membership Basis reporting fellow primarily based in Arlington. He’s a senior on the College of Texas at Arlington majoring in journalism and a switch pupil from Tarrant County Faculty, the place he labored on the pupil newspaper, The Collegian. As an intern at public radio station KERA, he lined state politics and native governments. He was a yearlong reporting fellow on the Fort Value Report and labored as a summer time fellow for the Tribune. Juan was born and raised within the North Facet neighborhood of Fort Value.
Lorianne Willett is an Austin-based images fellow and a journalism pupil on the College of Texas at Austin. Beforehand, she was a multimedia intern at KUT Information, a images intern at Texas Join, and the picture editor at The Every day Texan, the campus newspaper. Initially from Tucson, Arizona, Lorianne spent a part of her childhood transferring round till her household settled in San Antonio.
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