The St. Louis American will become a Report for America Newsroom and partner with Type Investigations. Please donate to support our vital mission to preserve local news!

The St. Louis American is pleased to announce that it has been selected as a Report for America host newsroom. The St. Louis American will partner with Type Investigations, a newsroom that has collaborated with the American on investigative reporting stories as recently as 2019. We will join an expanding network of more than 200 newsrooms benefiting from the support of the Report for American nonprofit program.

Through this partnership, The St. Louis American will expand its coverage of Business news and hire a journalist to cover the beat. We at The St. Louis American Newspaper are obligated to explore, investigate, and bring into focus the ways in which local African-American businesses can survive and recover from the pandemic, forge a path forward and grow by gaining greater access to financial, government and private resources, which historically have been highly restricted or denied due to systemic racism and lack of dissemination of information about them. Journalists interested in reporting on business in St. Louis on the macro and micro levels for the St. Louis American, can apply here, by Jan. 31, 2021.

Report for America is a two-year program (with an option for three) that delivers a wide-range of benefits to its corps members. Beyond paying up to half of the journalists’ salaries, it provides ongoing training and mentorship by leading journalists, peer networking, and memberships to select professional organizations.

Report for America is a national service program that places journalists into local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues and communities. Type Investigations is a newsroom for high-impact investigative reporting that holds the powerful accountable.

The St. Louis American looks forward to welcoming our new Report for America corps member(s) in June 2021.

Report for America: Support our corps reporter!

By The St. Louis American

Report for America: Support our corps reporter!