Salem Reporter to expand education reporting with 2-person team
Salem Reporter will field a new two-person team soon to focus on education matters, their work possible because of support from the community and a national nonprofit.
Eddy Binford-Ross, a Salem native and graduate of Georgetown University, will be the news organization’s lead enterprise reporter on the Salem-Keizer School District.
Kent Friel, who is graduating from Dartmouth College and has worked at the newspaper in Ketchum, Idaho, will lead the organization’s deeper reporting on nonprofits…
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We have supported this project, and we encourage other readers to do so as well. We can’t think of a more important topic for the Salem community. Salem Reporter has proven that its staff can dig deep beyond news releases. These young Report for America hires will get invaluable experience while they tackle stories that need to be told.
Barbara Curtin Miles and Denny Miles
Welcome to the newbies! I suspect they will have no trouble finding plenty to write about (both good and bad) with SKSD.
And speaking of staffing changes, who’s going to be replacing Rachel as the managing editor?
Excellent choices!
Great job hiring two very impressive young people (Dartmouth and Georgetown! grads )to focus on such important objectives of accountability and solutions in educating local kids. Even though mine and my grandkids are all grown and live elsewhere, in Salem and Keizer and all accross the country, there needs to be more focus on both of those objectives, and that should always start at the top, just as in any organization – because that’s where successful cultures, processes and expectations begin.