The Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting is one of 20 newsrooms selected to participate in ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network project this year. KyCIR was chosen from nearly 140 applications from local newsrooms around the country to join the Local Reporting Network.
“KyCIR is thrilled for the chance to work with ProPublica and devote significant resources to a project with the potential to highlight problems that affect Kentuckians and spur meaningful change,” said KyCIR Managing Editor Kate Howard.
The lead reporter on the ProPublica collaboration will be R.G. Dunlop (pictured), an award-winning investigative reporter whose work has exposed government corruption and resulted in numerous reforms. ProPublica will reimburse Dunlop’s salary for the next year as he works on the project.
Dunlop won a Peabody Award in 2018 for “The Pope’s Long Con,” a five-part investigation and podcast. He is a three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and was twice a member of teams that won George Polk Awards while a reporter at the Courier Journal. He has been with KyCIR since its founding in 2013.
Stories will be published by ProPublica simultaneously to their broadcast on 89.3 WFPL and published on KyCIR.org. ProPublica is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with moral force.
