Carly Berlin, a metro reporter at New Orleans Public Radio in Louisiana, will join Vermont Public and VTDigger as a Report for America corps member in an effort to expand coverage of housing and infrastructure in Vermont. She will begin her new role in July.
Berlin will cover two of the most vexing challenges facing the state: the availability, affordability and condition of housing and an aging infrastructure that is no longer serving its residents.
"Carly is an experienced and accomplished reporter, and I think she is the ideal person to take on this beat. We are eager to start working with her and our friends at VTDigger to enhance our collective coverage of these vital issues,” said Mark Davis, senior editor at Vermont Public.
Report for America is a national service program that places talented emerging journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered topics and communities across the United States and its territories. It is an initiative of The GroundTruth Project, a nonprofit journalism organization dedicated to rebuilding journalism from the ground up.
Berlin is among more than 60 journalists selected for the 2023 corps. They will work in newsrooms from Puerto Rico to North Dakota. She is the only new corps member who will be reporting from Vermont.
At New Orleans Public Radio, Berlin reports daily news, features and podcast segments focused on housing, transportation and city government. She previously worked as a Gulf Coast correspondent for Southerly, a nonprofit news organization that covers the environment in the Southeast.