Fort’s reports aired on 18 community radio stations throughout the state, and she co-produced a radio documentary, “George Floyd: One Year Later. In 2021 she joined the Racial Reckoning: The Arc of Justice project, launched by the Association of Minnesota Public Educational Radio Stations (Ampers) in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder to cover the Derek Chauvin trial and related issues. Her Facebook page attracted 105,000 followers. When she couldn’t land a television job in the Twin Cities that paid her commensurate with her experience – she had been a weekend anchor in Columbus, Georgia, and morning co-anchor in Duluth, landing two Emmy Awards nominations – she began producing her own video content, posted to her professional website and Facebook page.įort, who is biracial, focuses her journalism on marginalized and underserved groups, mainly people of color. Georgia Fort, the independent multimedia journalist and entrepreneur from St.
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