Monitor reporter Jeremy Margolis, who covered education for the last two years with clarity and zeal, was selected as one of five journalists nationwide to join ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network.
Margolis was selected as part of ProPublica’s 50 State Initiative, which partners with newsrooms around the country.
ProPublica, an internationally recognized media organization that invests in rigorous investigative journalism, launched its Local Reporting Network in 2018. Since then, it has sponsored 95 reporters for the duration of a year-long project.
Although Margolis will be exiting his current role to dedicate himself exclusively to this investigation, he will continue working for and at the Monitor. ProPublica fellows remain embedded in their respective newsrooms, and the Monitor will publish Margolis’s coverage as it develops.
Our shared aim is to make a difference in the local community.
Margolis’s reporting on the University of New Hampshire’s response to a pro-Palestine protest called into question justifications made by university police for charging students with assault. His coverage of Education Freedom Accounts and efforts to expand open enrollment has provided Monitor readers with a digestible understanding of the state’s evolving education policies.
He was named the Rookie of the Year by the New Hampshire Press Association in 2024 and recognized with the association’s investigative series of the year award. He typifies the best the Monitor has to offer its readers.
His class of ProPublica peers includes Katie Shepherd of the Baltimore Banner, Jon Mingle of Seven Days, and Ashley Balcerzak and Jean Rimbach of The Record/NorthJersey.com.
The Monitor will be hiring a new reporter to cover education and youth in the coming weeks.
