With this grant, we can ensure that Georgians who were hit hardest by the pandemic, specifically individuals from special populations and marginalized communities, have access to better jobs as well,” said Deputy Commissioner Karen Kirchler. “For many in Georgia, the pandemic has offered the opportunity to begin a new chapter in their lives, and that often means a better job. The grant will also provide significant funding to affected workers through WorkSource Georgia, the state’s employment and training system, for skills training in jobs critical to Georgia’s economy, including advanced manufacturing, transportation, distribution, logistics, information technology, and healthcare. Through this grant, TCSG will establish The Untapped Workforce Initiative, which is focused on strengthening partnerships between Georgia’s workforce development system, employers, and local communities to address the workforce impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and lower barriers for affected workers of the pandemic to obtain quality, sustainable careers. “This presents a tremendous opportunity for Georgians to not only reenter the workforce, but also begin a new career path that they may not have been able to access before.” “Since the pandemic, Georgia has experienced both unprecedented economic growth, and record openings of high-quality skilled jobs,” said TCSG Commissioner Greg Dozier. Department of Labor awarded the Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG) a $15 million Quality Jobs, Equity, Strategy, Training (QUEST) Disaster Recovery Grant to support Georgia workers and employers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Howard Center is generously funded by $3 million from the Scripps Howard Foundation and the “Printing Hate” project was supported by the Park Foundation.TCSG Receives $15M Grant to Recover and Expand Georgia’s Skilled Workforce Post-PandemicĪTLANTA, GA–The U.S. The mission of the Howard Center is to teach the next generation of investigative journalists through hands-on investigative projects such as “Printing Hate.” Student journalists have teamed with Merrill College's faculty and staff members to win some of the nation's top investigative journalism awards for packages that focused on such topics as climate change, homelessness and how companies prey on the poor. It is believed to be the first student project to win an IRE medal. The “Printing Hate” project previously won the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for Collaborative Journalism, the News Leaders Association’s Punch Sulzberger Innovator of the Year Award, an Investigative Reporters & Editors medal and the 2021 IRE Award in the Student - Large category. All of the papers in the database are still published today in some form. It includes historic examples from nearly 70 additional newspapers that featured racist local coverage of lynchings. A database published in December significantly expanded the scope of the project. That resulted in more than 40 student-generated stories, as well as a short documentary, static and motion graphics, photos and audio. Once they identified particularly egregious coverage, they dug deeply into census records and other historical manuscripts to identify and locate descendants, interviewed historians and contemporary experts on lynching, and talked to current and former newspaper editors about what responsibility, if any, modern papers have for addressing their pasts. Students examined newspapers published between 18, using computational journalism methods to extract information using large-scale text analysis from digital archives containing more than 5,000 newspapers. The judges applaud the entrants for telling stories that haven't been told, and encourage them to continue on this path." Great writing, research and presentation. The collaboration across seven campuses with 60 students is remarkable. The judges' comment read: "Judges praised the winning entry as a bold and relevant reflection of the impact we have as journalists. Inspired by Merrill Associate Professor DeNeen Brown’s reporting on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, the students came together to document the racial hate and violence incited by white-owned newspapers during the Jim Crow era. To make “Printing Hate” possible, the Howard Center recruited 60 journalism students from UMD’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism, Hampton University, Howard University, Morehouse College, Morgan State University, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University and the University of Arkansas. It won the Student Journalism Award in the Portfolio: Student Team category. COLLEGE PARK – “Printing Hate,” the University of Maryland Howard Center for Investigative Journalism’s unprecedented exploration of the racist past of white-owned newspapers, this week won an Online Journalism Award from the Online News Association.
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