The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is pleased to announce that Report for America reporter Mirtha Donastorg is joining the newsroom’s economy team. She will be covering Black wealth, entrepreneurship, and businesses for the newspaper’s economy team.
Mirtha Donastorg is a corps member with Report for America and most recently was the HBCU Innovation Editor at The Plug, exploring research, business and tech innovations coming from Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
While at The Plug, she developed a weekly newsletter providing in-depth analysis on HBCUs and the future of work. In her reporting, she profiled various HBCU presidents, including Morehouse President David Thomas; examined the long-term impacts of a lawsuit meant to address chronic underfunding of Mississippi HBCUs; and created enterprise databases on HBCU endowment values that have been widely cited by news organizations, researchers and HBCUs themselves.
She previously worked as an associate producer and a researcher for CNN. As an associate producer, she helped control the homepage of the most visited news site in the world and alerted breaking news to millions of people daily. As a researcher, she fact-checked and edited scripts, documentaries and investigative projects. She also covered the conviction of an abusive ex-priest from Savannah and the novel approach prosecutors took to secure his conviction.
“Mirtha brings a a diverse set of skills and journalism smarts to the AJC,” said Scott Trubey, senior editor for the economy team. “She will bring our readers stories they can find nowhere else about vital parts of the metro Atlanta economy and Atlanta’s influence on Georgia and the nation.”
She can be reached at mirtha.donastorg@ajc.com.
Launched in 2017, Report for America is a growing national service program that arranges for journalists to work in local newsrooms to report on under-reported topics and communities.
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