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.

Media Industry

How free assembly counters attacks on press freedom

WASHINGTON — A ring of authoritarian world leaders riding hungry wolves encircles a group of journalists as President...

A mother holds her baby in the Philippines, where climate change is driving waves of human trafficking. Click on the photo to see the story. (Photo by Hannah Reyes Morales/GroundTruth)

Democracy

In anxious times, real stories of climate change can lead the way toward action

WASHINGTON — Climate change is making us more anxious, more depressed and more suicidal, reports the American Psychological Association,...

Democracy

‘Words matter’: Journalism’s battle for trust

WASHINGTON — The summit was billed as an effort to “reduce tension between the administration and the media.”...

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Health

Why Americans are getting squeezed by surging drug costs

WASHINGTON — Just about everyone needs medicine sometimes. But when Americans do, they pay far more for prescription drugs...

Wind turbines spin through sunset hours (Photo via Creative Commons).

Environment

Why Trump’s environmental policy is out of touch with America

WASHINGTON — President Trump chose hostile territory, the Environmental Protection Agency, as his stage to announce a turn-back-the-clock...

Refugees and Migration

Why investment in diplomacy is money well spent

WASHINGTON — Past a phalanx of black diplomatic SUVs and a cordon of military patrols, a global coalition...

Abandoned theme park in Diani Beach, Kenya. Tourist region suffered with terrorist attacks that prompted strict travel warnings from Western governments. (Photo by Kevin Grant/GroundTruth)

Africa

Shaken by terrorism, this Kenyan resort became a ghost town

DIANI BEACH, Kenya — The Indian Ocean had retreated away toward the horizon for the afternoon, revealing a long stretch...

Boniface Mwangi stands in front of a painting in PAWA254, an artspace and office.

Democracy

‘Truth will never die’ – More death threats for a Kenyan activist

NAIROBI – The threats on Boniface Mwangi’s life have been coming for years. But Mwangi, one of Kenya’s most...

United Nations flag (Photo by Sanjitbakshi/Flickr User)

Rights

In the shadow of history, UN youth gather in defiance of Trump’s refugee ban

UNITED NATIONS — On the banks of Manhattan’s East River, the world’s main international body echoes with history. Since...

A sign reads "We welcome refugees" at a demonstration in Boston's Copley Square on January 29, 2017. (Photo by Giulia Afiune/GroundTruth)

Rights

Trump travel ban riles American resistance

BOSTON — These are the new front lines of the fight for democratic values in America: airports, public...

NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt addresses the 75th duPont-Columbia Awards. (Photo by Kevin Grant/GroundTruth)

Inequality

A call for courage in journalism at 75th duPont Awards

NEW YORK — Some of journalism’s living legends invoked the spirits of departed news greats like Edward R....

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