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  • Four Pueblos Build Their Own Internet Access

    April 06, 2018 |

    KNME-PBS |

    Broadcast TV Programs |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Cochiti, New Mexico

    Faced with slow and expensive internet service, the Middle Rio Grande Pueblo Tribal Consortium was created to establish four New Mexico Pueblos to improved service through collective work, collective bargaining, and federal funding. With improved service, people can continue to live on the Pueblo and access necessary tools for work and school as well as modern conveniences.

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  • Tribes lead the way for faster internet access in New Mexico

    April 06, 2018 |

    High Country News |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Santa Fe, New Mexico

    Across the United States, tribal lands have the lowest access to internet, an issue that restricts opportunity and education in those areas. In New Mexico, several small tribes have partnered to lay fiber-optic cables that connect the libraries, which serve as primary sources of internet connection, to faster, cheaper internet.

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  • How a rural electric co-op connected a community

    April 06, 2018 |

    KUNM |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    The Federal Communications Commission states that close to 39% of Americans in rural areas do not have high-speed internet access. Several co-ops in New Mexico are part of a move to change that. Kit Carson and other rural electric cooperatives are bringing fiber-optic internet access to increase the number of people with consistent and quality Internet access, which helps their businesses and their communities.

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  • Did Fort Collins grow too big too fast?

    March 28, 2018 |

    High Country News |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Fort Collins, Colorado

    Bozeman, Montana looks to Fort Collins, Colorado for strategies on what to do -- and what not to do -- when tackling urban planning for rapid expansion. While Fort Collins planned for growth by creating tasks forces to evaluate what citizens need the most in their communities, the city didn't account for the scale of population growth it saw in very little time. Bozeman hopes to emulate the level of civic engagement while also creating better models to predict and serve a rapidly expanding population size.

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  • When They Couldn't Afford Internet Service, They Built Their Own

    March 26, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Access to the internet is an important tool to addressing inequity at the scale of the community and the individual. Detriot’s Equitable Internet Initiative is a coalition of media, tech, and community-based organizations working to bridge the digital divide in underserved neighborhoods.

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  • As the ‘forever war' drags on, veterans bring battlefield knowledge to the newsroom

    March 21, 2018 |

    Columbia Journalism Review |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    As America’s war in Afghanistan reaches 17 years, the war in Iraq reaches 15 years, and military action continues in other parts of the world there is a need for reporting on these conflicts that is informed, independent, and honest. To fill this need, specialized newsrooms have been developed with staff and reporters who are veterans and use their experience, and the insight and access it brings, to bear on their reportage.

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  • Pride and Self-Love in the L.G.B.T.Q. African Diaspora

    March 19, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

    Photojournalism |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States

    In order to help him understand his identity as a queer African, Mikael Owunna traveled around the United States and Europe photographing queer and trans Africans. The result is a series of portraits that created a validating, loving space for their subjects.

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  • ‘Black Panther' Threw a Spotlight on Diversity and the Twin Cities is Taking Note

    March 08, 2018 |

    Twin Cities Business |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    Minneapolis’ Twin Cities Black Film Festival highlights the work of black actors and filmmakers for the last sixteen years. It also helps grow the next generation of filmmakers through workshops as well as helping to expand the audience for film by offering subsidized transportation to screenings.

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  • Geothermal Energy Grows in Kenya

    February 23, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Kenya

    Kenya harnesses geothermal energy to power the nation. By developing naturally occurring geothermal areas at the East African Rift, they were able to supply almost half of the country's energy needs in 2015.

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  • Three Dogs Are Rebuilding Chilean Forests Once Devastated By Fire

    February 19, 2018 |

    Green Matters |

    Multi-Media |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Chile, Maule

    In the wake of more than 100 forest fires in Maule, Chile, hundreds of burned acres of forest are being replanted by three Border Collies named Das, Olivia, and Summer and an organization called Pewos. The dogs bound through miles of terrain with special backpacks that release native seeds to regrow the area. So far the dogs have worked in 15 forests in the region and plants are starting to come back.

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