Kevin Douglas Grant

Kevin Douglas Grant is the outgoing Chief Development and Partnerships Officer at The GroundTruth Project, building revenue-generating partnerships in support of Report for America and Report for the World.

Previously Senior Editor of Special Reports at GlobalPost, he has led reporting projects around the world and his work has been recognized by the Edward R. Murrow, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University and Online Journalism Awards among others. Over the last 10 years, he has helped to support more than 300 reporting fellows producing in-depth work on social justice issues in more than 50 countries.

Grant is a recent graduate of the Media Transformation Challenge at Poynter, and is presently working on a project about religious leaders worldwide as a journalism fellow at USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture.

He holds an M.A. in Digital Journalism from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School, where he was a Dean’s Scholar and the founding Executive Editor of Annenberg’s pioneering news organization Neon Tommy. Grant is also the former Operations Director of semantic news aggregator Inform.com.

Grant is currently based in Washington, D.C., where he serves as a capstone adviser and adjunct professor of journalism at Georgetown University.

Special Reports

In an age of division, a journey to demystify journalism

BOSTON — Even in a time of great division, there are moments when we come together. An historic...

Democracy

The Charlottesville attack and America’s state of emergency

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia —The governor had just declared a state of emergency when the silver Dodge Challenger ploughed into...

The Trump administration's proposed RAISE Act, to limit immigration, defies the spirit of the Emma Lazarus poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty, writes Kevin Grant. (Alex.m.Hayward/Flickr)

Democracy

Why the RAISE Act is bad policy driven by hate and fear

WASHINGTON — Trump adviser Stephen Miller’s comments about the poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty crawled under the skin...

Protesters at the White House on July 26, 2017, protest Donald Trump's announcement on Twitter, that transgender military servicemembers will no longer be allowed to serve. (Ted Eytan/Flickr Creative Commons)

Rights

Trump’s transgender military ban defies decades of progress on LGBT equality

WASHINGTON—For the vast majority of American history, a powerful consensus held that gay people should not serve in...

The responses to revelations that Donald Trump Jr. met with Russians claiming to have damaging information about Hillary Clinton have been vastly divergent depending on a person's media diet. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)

Democracy

The bubbles didn’t break: Trumpland’s split screen

WASHINGTON — In one American reality, Donald Trump, Jr.’s emails are a smoking gun served on a silver platter,...

With the U.S. midterm elections around the corner, reporters will be quoting poll results. Here's a checklist to assess the quality of polls and surveys. (OSCE/Flickr)

Democracy

A red and blue consensus on Trump’s election ‘integrity’ commission

PHOENIX — This Fourth of July landed in the middle of the week and in the middle of...

Naloxone rescue kits sit on the table at a drug clinic. (Photo by Edwin Torres/GroundTruth)

Health

Gripped by opioids, American addicts must be patients first

NEW YORK — The opioid crisis is now the worst drug epidemic in American history and it’s expected...

The US Marine Band plays the national anthem at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Marine Band)

Democracy

Why the Congressional baseball shooting is, sadly, so American

WASHINGTON — The early-morning barrage of rifle fire on a Virginia baseball field not far from the capital...

Refugees and Migration

In Portland, an act of bravery illuminates a crisis of hate

WASHINGTON — In a spontaneous moment of compassion, three passengers on a Portland train witnessed an act of...

In this screenshot from a video posted on Twitter by VOA Turkish, a man can be seen kicking a protester on the ground.

Democracy

Turkish delegation’s attack on peaceful protesters in DC a warning shot at democratic values

WASHINGTON — Men in dark suits dodged helmeted local police to deliver vicious kicks upon the downed bodies of...

Democracy

How authoritarianism feeds on apathy

WASHINGTON — The French presidential election was billed as the most important in a generation, a referendum on...

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