Ariel Worthy, a reporter for WESA in Pittsburgh, spent 2020 as one of StateImpact Pennsylvania’s embedded journalists as part of the America Amplified initiative.

Brittani Howell is the community engagement specialist for Side Effects Public Media. She leads various community engagement efforts, from texting exchanges to hosting events. She shared this workflow with us.

Celia Llopis-Jepsen is a reporter for the Kansas News Service, covering health issues from a consumer perspective, as well as state education policy. She previously worked at the Taipei Times and Topeka Capital-Journal, and brings in-depth experience covering schools.

Jeff Young is the managing editor of Ohio Valley ReSource. He is an award-winning journalist and has reported from Appalachian coalfields, Capitol Hill, and New England’s coast, among other places. His book, “Appalachian Fall: Dispatches from Coal Country on What's Ailing America,” was released in August 2020.

Robin Tate Rockel is Community Engagement Manager at Indiana Public Broadcasting. She spoke with Ann Alquist of America Amplified about her job and how it is integrated into the Indiana Public Broadcasting newsroom.

Kate Concannon is the managing editor of the Mountain West News Bureau, a collaboration of public media stations that serve the Rocky Mountain States of Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Montana and Wyoming.

Toward Racial Justice is WITF’s digital conversation series addressing systemic racism and injustice in Central Pennsylvania and beyond. To develop the series, we called upon the voice and perspective of a diverse organizing committee.

In 2020, New Hampshire Public Radio launched a concerted effort to meet the information needs of the state’s Spanish-speaking audience. The effort led by reporter Daniela Allee resulted in a daily newscast, translated into Spanish, that’s gaining audience via WhatsApp.

Seth Bodine covers agriculture and rural issues for KOSU in Oklahoma as a Report For America corps member. In December 2020, he published a story about the poor quality of water in Hobart, Oklahoma. Here’s how he discovered the story through Facebook.

Text and audio reporting in Spanish are currently offered on the KUNR’s website. The station formalized bilingual reporting through a student internship program in 2016 with Noticiero Móvil, a student staffed bilingual newsroom at the University of Nevada-Reno’s Reynolds School of Journalism.

Rachel Hubbard is an journalist with a track record of innovative collaborations during her 20-year career at KOSU in Oklahoma. KOSU is a small station that covers two-thirds of the state — with a news staff of only four — but have successfully integrated engagement into much of their journalism. We asked her to explain the process.