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GroundTruth's newsletter moves to Substack

2 months ago | thegroundtruthproject.org | Charles M. Sennott

Dear Reader,If you’ve been following my work—or if we’ve crossed paths along this journey—you know that I’ve always believed that on-the-ground reporting—authentic, local storytelling—is the cornerstone of democracy. It’s how we hold power to account, amplify voices that need to be heard, and build bridges at a time of deep division. This belief is what led me to start The GroundTruth Project ten years ago and our journey over the last decade has been chronicled here in this newsletter.
Director of Philanthropy | The GroundTruth Project

Jan 8, 2025 | thegroundtruthproject.org

APPLY HERE The GroundTruth Project – home to Report for America and Report for the World – is an award-winning nonprofit organization at the forefront of empowering a new generation of journalists and newsrooms to report on the stories that matter most. We are committed to shedding light on underreported issues, driving meaningful conversations, and
City partnership uses outreach to limit student gang involvement

Dec 15, 2024 | thegroundtruthproject.org | Adriana Arguijo Gutierrez |Adriana C. Gutiérrez

SANTA ROSA – In December the Santa Rosa Violence Prevention Partnership and the city’s police department rang the alarms: youth as young as age 10 were showing interest in the gang lifestyle and someone needed to get through to them. “(In 2023) there was a couple of kids that had been involved in some major assaults and stabbings,” said Danielle Garduño, manager of the Violence Prevention Partnership.
After 50 years of dictatorship, Syria can hope for democracy

Dec 13, 2024 | thegroundtruthproject.org | Charles M. Sennott

It has been an extraordinary week in the news – a dramatic shifting of global alliances and a stunning movement of tectonic plates in the geopolitics of the Middle East which caused the sudden cratering of a despotic regime in Syria after a half century of brutality and cruelty over its people.
Zines and Labyrinths: Slow Media for Fast Times

Nov 27, 2024 | thegroundtruthproject.org | Ben Brody

Less than a mile from where I grew up north of Boston, Connors Farm hosts a popular 7-acre corn maze in the fall. Normally this is of interest only to locals, but in 2011, the farm made national news after a family called 911 when they couldn’t find their way out in a timely manner. They were found by police 25 feet from the parking lot.
What a Trump presidency means for the future of the Climate amid COP29

Nov 22, 2024 | thegroundtruthproject.org | Charles M. Sennott

In Baku, Azerbaijan, heads of state, leading climate scientists, environmental activists and regulatory officials from some 190 countries all gathered this week for the 29th meeting of the U.N. Climate Change Conference, better known as COP. The stakes are as high as ever, as the impacts of climate change continue to ravage nearly every corner of the world, and the response to it feels slow and uncoordinated.
Trump’s victory needs to open a dialogue. Austin, Texas, might show the way.

Nov 15, 2024 | thegroundtruthproject.org | Charles M. Sennott

WASHINGTON – As America braces for what increasingly looks like the era of a strongman under the next term of Donald Trump, a Nobel laureate and defender of the free press made a call to arms against the efforts by authoritarians to curtail free speech. Maria Ressa, speaking at the 40th anniversary of the International Center for Journalists annual gathering Thursday night in Washington DC, said “Whether we can save democracy – or not – depends on you, what you do today.
Trump’s victory needs to open a dialogue. Austin, Texas, might show the way.

Nov 8, 2024 | thegroundtruthproject.org | Charles M. Sennott

AUSTIN, Texas – The Lone Star state has always been a big prize in presidential elections, but it has gone solidly Republican since Jimmy Carter won in 1976. So it was no surprise that former President Donald Trump won handily on Tuesday and took all of its 40 electoral votes. Being here in Austin, a blue dot in the middle of this red state, is as good a vantage point as any in America to observe how these Divided States of America are trying to move forward and to plunge into the future.
How Arab Americans and Muslims in Michigan could swing the 2024 presidential election

Oct 31, 2024 | thegroundtruthproject.org | Charles M. Sennott

DEARBORN, Michigan – A light wind rustled autumn leaves on the tree-lined streets in the inner-ring of Detroit’s suburbs, where single-family homes are framed by short driveways, neat lawns and inviting entryways. The suburban idyll does not look like a frontline, but it is indeed a highly contested battle zone in the trenches of this presidential election; and part of a community that is the nation’s largest Arab majority city.
How Trump’s misinformation became normalized

Oct 25, 2024 | thegroundtruthproject.org | Charles M. Sennott

Lies, smears and even dirty tricks are nothing new in American politics, and when caught red-handed in a falsehood, politicians have traditionally been contrite in one way or another and often faced consequences. Think of President Nixon denying that anyone in the White House was involved in the Watergate break-in just after it was exposed by the Washington Post.