The Salt Lake Tribune will welcome two new fellows to its newsroom this summer to bolster its reporting on under-covered issues.
The 2019 fellows were announced this week by Report for America, a national service program that helps place emerging journalists in local newsrooms. More than 1,000 candidates applied and, in the end, 61 were selected to serve in 50 organizations across the country.
At The Tribune, Becky Jacobs will cover women’s issues and the stories behind Utah’s startling statistics about the status of women, from the wage gap to representation in leadership. She is currently a crime and courts reporter in Indiana for the Post-Tribune, a suburban newspaper of the Chicago Tribune.