Small Newsrooms, Big Stories

This fund is for journalists who cover a lot of territory with limited resources. It has one main purpose: To help unearth important stories that otherwise won’t get told. R-CAR fellows spend five days learning how to build and query databases at Investigative Reporters & Editors Inc. in Columbia, Mo. They emerge with the tools to convert spreadsheets into sources. Fellows are chosen based on their journalistic ability, motivation, and ideas to pursue stories of consequence for their communities. (more…)

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The R-Car Experience

Jamie Self

Jamie Self

A fellowship from the Fund for Rural Computer-Assisted Reporting allowed me to spend six days in Aug...
Hillary Borrud

Hillary Borrud

When I received a Rural Computer Assisted Reporting fellowship, I was the city hall reporter for The...
Rajah Maples

Rajah Maples

The R-CAR fellowship for the Investigative Reporters and Editors boot camp helped shape me into a mo...

Kate Martin

Rural Computer-Assisted Reporting workshop conveys critical skills; fellowship available to full-scale CAR Boot Camp

R-CAR: The Fund for Rural Computer-Assisted Reporting