A support group and a lab in the St. Louis area provide resources for people with the allergy to mammal products — and evidence that its effects can be reversed.
Newsroom applications close Sept. 30 Apply to add a new reporter to your newsroom specifically to cover agriculture and w ater issues. Report for America will provide half the reporter’s salary in the first year and a third in the second, plus professional support for increasing local philanthropy. The Ag & Water Desk will provide training, story grants of $1,000 per year, support for travel to conferences, and editorial support to the newsrooms and journalists. Learn more .
Veteran environmental journalist Tegan Wendland will be joining our team as editorial director on Oct. 4. Wendland will oversee the work of the Ag & Water Desk, which is housed at the Missouri School of Journalism and supported by a $1.4 million, three-year grant from the Walton Family Foundation.
Wendland has spent more than a decade reporting on issues in the Mississippi River Basin, from the shores of Lake Superior to the Louisiana delta. Her work has aired nationally and internationally on “Morning Edition,” “All Things Considered,” Marketplace, “Planet Money,” Reveal, BBC and CBC and been published in the Wisconsin Journal Sentinel, Wisconsin State Journal, The Cap Times and The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate.
She has spent the past seven years reporting on Louisiana’s disappearing coast for NPR-member station WWNO in New Orleans, where she covered the culture and economy of Louisiana’s coastal zone with a focus on solutions and the human dimensions of climate change.
“As we reckon with climate change and food insecurity, covering agriculture and water issues has never been more important,” said Wendland. “I believe this innovative project has the potential to provide an important public service and fill critical gaps in coverage. I couldn’t be more excited to join this team.”
Read more from the University of Missouri's press release.
Apply to add a new reporter to your newsroom specifically to cover agriculture and water issues. Report for America will provide half the reporter’s salary in the first year and a third in the second, plus professional support for increasing local philanthropy. The Ag & Water Desk will provide training, story grants of $1,000 per year, support for travel to conferences, and editorial support to the newsrooms and journalists. Learn more.
