In New Mexico, recent college grads are matched with newsrooms to complete 9-month fellowships. In California, 40 fellows will work for two years in newsrooms that operate in underserved communities around the state. And the legislature in Washington State just allocated $2.4 million to start its own two-year program to boost local journalism.
The most established — but least expensive — of these state-funded fellowship programs is in New Mexico, where lawmakers recently approved $125,000 from the state’s Department of Workforce Solutions to effectively double the number of fellows. (The California program, in contrast, was allotted $25 million over three years.) New Mexico’s comparatively tiny program has an outsized impact in their local news scene; the 31 newsrooms that applied this year to host fellows or interns represent the vast majority of news organizations in the state.
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