ATLANTA - GeorgiaChron -- The Imprint, the only outlet focused on covering child welfare in the United States, has established a new reporting beat in Georgia.

Georgia is now the fourth state where The Imprint, a nonprofit news site published by Fostering Media Connections (FMC), has successfully established a full-time child welfare reporter to focus on issues that include family preservation, civil rights, foster care and adoption. The Imprint has already established reporters in California, Minnesota and New York.

"This is a tremendous step in the continued growth of The Imprint and Fostering Media Connections," said FMC Co-Executive Director John Kelly. "We are now in position to produce quality journalism about an incredibly important part of the social safety net in four very different states, in addition to the work that our team of national reporters produces."

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Bria Suggs will serve as The Imprint's first Georgia reporter. Suggs earned an honors degree in English from Georgia State University and wrote for The Atlanta Voice before earning  a master's degree in audio journalism from UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. Her work has appeared in NPR, WNYC, KQED and other outlets.

This new position was made possible with support from the Georgia-based Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation and the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. A Georgia child welfare newsletter will launch in January 2025; those interested in receiving it can sign up here: https://imprintnews.org/georgia-child-welfare-reader

About Fostering Media Connections

Fostering Media Connections (FMC) is a nonprofit news organization that uses media and journalism to lead the conversation about children, youth and families in the US. To do this FMC publishes a daily news site, The Imprint, and a print magazine, Fostering Families Today, and runs youth journalism training program Youth Voices Rising, and elevates podcasts in the field through its SafeCamp Audio platform. Learn more at fosteringmediaconnections.org.