News Watch Adds Reporter for Rural and Native American Stories

A new rural government reporter will join the BDN and Maine Monitor

The Bangor Daily News and The Maine Monitor will welcome a new Report for America corps member focused on a topic we need more reporting on: rural government. Daniel O’Connor will join the newsrooms on July 7 as the first reporter jointly hired by the news outlets under a partnership announced earlier this month. He will work predominantly on the BDN’s politics team and will do reporting projects assigned by editors at The Monitor. “This is an i…

The Maine Monitor to welcome two Report for America reporters

Sean Scott and Daniel O’Connor will begin reporting for The Maine Monitor this summer.The Maine Monitor will welcome two Report for America corps members into its newsroom in July. Sean Scott will launch a unique beat in Maine covering religion, politics and society. He comes to The Monitor with wide-ranging experience, including having launched a nonprofit weekly print newspaper and website in a market with no year-round news sources. In partne…

News Watch adds reporter for rural and Native American stories

South Dakota News Watch is adding a full-time reporter who will focus on rural and Native American communities across the state as a Report for America corps member. Molly Wetsch was born and raised in South Dakota. Her family comes from farming towns and the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, so she understands the issues that are unique to both communities. Wetsch previously served as an editorial intern for Forbes in New York City, working on…