North Country Public Radio

North Country Public Radio encompasses 34 transmitters and translators that serve a large geographic area—northern New York, western Vermont, southern Ontario and Quebec. NCPR is one of the few organizations that connects and serves the entire region, home to remote mountain hamlets, sparsely populated farming communities, Akwesasne Mohawk towns and tourist meccas. This award-winning news organization seeks to tell the stories and improve the lives of people who are often overlooked by other news outlets.

Current Position

Location: Canton, New York

Beat: Low-income families in rural northern New York communities

Position:

In the rural Adirondack-North Country region of northern New York, nearly one out of every five families live below the federal poverty level, often in isolated, extremely rural pockets with limited or no access to high-speed internet. This beat uses NCPR's proven framework for engaging the community, via the texting-based platform GroundSource. The reporter also builds contacts and trust using social media and by attending church suppers, demolition derbies and medical care fundraisers, meeting low-income people where they are, listening to what matters to them, and telling compelling stories that can influence policy.

Reporter: Lucy Grindon