The Current

The Current is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization founded in 2020 to provide free in-depth watchdog journalism for Savannah and other coastal Georgia areas. This news organization holds the powerful to account, illuminates public threats and helps build a more engaged society built on trustworthy facts. Its governing board consists of local business and community leaders committed to solving inequality and improving lives.

Current Position

Location: Savannah, Georgia

Beat: Criminal justice in coastal Georgia

Position:

There are no full-time reporters covering the courts and the police in coastal Georgia. This beat revives watchdog journalism in all of the eight counties The Current covers. The reporter focuses on criminal justice and the court system—county and federal courts, probate and bankruptcy hearings—developing sustained explanatory and accountability reporting about how local government, law enforcement and courts work well, and how they fail us.

Reporter: Jake Shore