Reporting from the field
Congressional reporting, interviews, field production, and live coverage.
CGA conducts the full field interviews and production for The Constituency Project, and runs an experiential micro fellowship that brings university students into civic journalism. We exist to support that work.
Congressional reporting, interviews, field production, and live coverage.
CGA conducts and produces every constituent interview for The Constituency Project. Our field reporters do the work in the district, so the public record can carry it forward.
A trained field reporter interviews a constituent on camera, in their district. The constituent shares where they live and confirms they're eligible to vote there, along with the issues they raise with their lawmakers.
Footage is edited and transcribed, and every step is logged, so the finished interview is ready for the record.
CGA is a support partner. We handle the field work and production. The Constituency Project builds and keeps the public record.
Production is active now in Virginia's 8th, 9th, and 10th congressional districts, with a roadmap into additional states.
CGA distributes The Constituency Project's archive to institutions that want a documented, on the record account of what constituents are telling their lawmakers.
Interviews, transcripts, and district data for journalism, political science, and public policy programs.
Start a conversationConstituent footage, transcripts, and district level issue data for reporting, research, or public use.
Start a conversationAn experiential micro fellowship for journalism students, arranged through their accredited college or university program.
Apply for fellowshipCGA runs an experiential micro fellowship for university students: training from leading US broadcast journalism faculty, paired with paid freelance field assignments.
We believe in civic journalism. We believe in the power of communities to tell their own story. That belief is why we built the experiential micro fellowship: a place for journalism students from campuses across America to report at a national level, publish under their own byline, and put that belief into practice.
An experiential micro fellowship is one assignment, not a semester long commitment. A student trains with leading US broadcast journalism faculty, then takes on a paid freelance district or reporting assignment. It is our way of bringing students from any US campus into civic journalism.
Fellows leave with published byline work that feeds into The Constituency Project's public record, and CGA gains a trained pool of reporters for the districts still ahead on the roadmap.
Apply to the fellowshipA student's program reaches out to CGA. We partner only with accredited colleges and universities, not individual applicants.
Fellows train with leading US broadcast journalism faculty on interviewing and field reporting before any fieldwork begins.
The fellow completes a paid freelance field assignment, conducting and logging real constituent interviews.
Approved work moves into production and joins the public record under the fellow's byline, alongside their academic institution.
The Constituency Project documents what constituents tell their lawmakers and keeps that record public. CGA runs production and distribution alongside it. The two operate independently, and every agreement between them is documented and approved by TCP's board.
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