Reno Gazette Journal Fund
The Reno Gazette-Journal Fund is a field of interest fund that may be used, among other things, to compensate journalists for their time to investigate, research and report on topics related to the production of journalism-based projects that will be distributed to the public without regard to commercial return.
You can donate to help support and sustain local, public service journalism
Your charitable donations and foundation grants will sustain in-depth public service journalism in Northern Nevada for the Reno Gazette-Journal organization.
The Reno Gazette Journal Fund was established as a field of interest fund with the Community Foundation of Northern Nevada in 2021. The fund is primarily made possible by a generous grant from the John Ben Snow Memorial Trust as well as individual donors.
In January 2022, Mark Robison was hired as the fund's first journalist to cover local government in Washoe County. Since then, the fund has continued to support local journalists whose work is made available free to the public.
RGJ Fund Supports Local Photojournalist
Reno Gazette Journal recently welcomed photojournalist Abra Richardson as our new visual journalist. Abra joins the newsroom thanks to a grant administered by the Community Foundation of Northern Nevada. As a community-funded journalist, Abra’s video and photo reporting will focus on social issues important to our community. Her projects will be free to the public and never behind a paywall.
A 2024 graduate of Columbia College in Chicago with a degree in photojournalism, Abra gained experience through internships with the Appleton Post-Crescent (a USA TODAY Network sister paper of the Reno Gazette Journal), the Ann Arbor News, and NBC 5 in Chicago, where her work contributed to an Emmy Award for the investigative team.
"I'm passionate about finding stories that matter to the community and contribute to the team's reporting through visual journalism," Abra said.