Announcing our wetlands photo contest winners!
As part of the Desk collaborative project, "Down the Drain," we asked readers to submit wetlands images for a photography contest.
A wetland area in Prentice Park, just south of Lake Superior in Ashland, Wisconsin on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023.
Credit: Mike De Sisti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk launches its first-ever photo contest
The Desk is opening submissions for its Wetlands photo contest for the first time.
Series graphic: Michael Crowe (Ag & Water Desk) with images by Jeff Wheeler and Anthony Soufflé (Minnesota Star Tribune)
Down the Drain: A new series on wetlands by the Ag & Water Desk
Our latest collaborative project, free to republish, explores recent legal and policy changes impacting wetlands, and the many ways people interact with these landscapes in the Mississippi River Basin.
Today, the Ag & Water Desk was named a Press Forward grant recipient. We join this inaugural, historic cohort of more than 200 local newsrooms across the country that are filling
critical information gaps and working in service of our communities.
Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk wins $100,000 grant from Press Forward
The first round of Press Forward’s campaign to strengthen local newsrooms received more than 900 applications nationwide.
Irina Zhorov, left, will be the Ag & Water Desk's new Assistant Director. Britny Cordera, right, is the Desk's first Engagement Editor. Background: The Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico, seen by air in July 2024. Photo by La'Shance Perry, The Lens, via Southwings
Ag & Water Desk hires new Assistant Director, Engagement Editor
Two accomplished freelance journalists will expand the collaborative’s editing and outreach capacity.
Three accomplished environmental journalists join Ag & Water Desk as mentors, project advisors
These experienced reporters and editors will support the Ag & Water Desk’s collaborative coverage of the U.S.’s largest watershed from Sierra Magazine, the Iowa Capital Dispatch and Inside Climate News.
A flood cornfield near Wells, Minnesota, on June 22. Credit: Christopher Vondracek, Star Tribune
We’re hiring: Ag & Water Desk seeks new Assistant Director to support editing, operations
This position contributes to editing and digital production, impact tracking and story distribution, and project strategy and administration. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis beginning on July 18, 2024.
Just one year away from a 2025 deadline to reduce the farm runoff washing down the Mississippi River into Gulf of Mexico by 20%, success seems unlikely. (Photos: Darrell Hoemann, Investigate Midwest; ROSCOSMOS/NASA)
Farm to Trouble: A new series on slow progress curbing the runoff fueling the Gulf’s ‘dead zone’
Our latest collaborative project, free to republish, looks at the farming practices -- and overlooked solutions -- that pump fertilizer runoff into the Gulf of Mexico, causing a persistent "dead zone" and more impacts upstream.
Ag & Water Desk reporters, staff and expert journalists tour the Missouri River near Columbia, Missouri, as part of a team conference in October 2022. Photo by Missouri River Relief
We’re hiring: Join the Ag & Water Desk team as our Engagement Editor or an Expert Journalist
These positions will support outreach and mentorship for our growing environmental journalism collaborative. Applications are due June 10, 2024.
Eleven local newsrooms will host Report for America corps members with the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk. Credit: Annie Ropeik, Ag & Water Desk. Datawrapper map data: U.S. Geological Survey & World Bank
Report for America hires 11 journalists to expand Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk
Based in local newsrooms across the nation’s largest watershed, the new cohort will work alongside the award-winning journalism collaborative’s founding members to produce regional environmental coverage that is free for any news outlet to republish.