By Kevin Corcoran Ensuring community vitality in the midst of tests such as addressing injustices arising from our violent racial history, mitigating the effects of a pandemic, and resettling Afghan refugees requires our commitment to local journalism. Report for America emerged from the proposition that the shaky financial model for…

By Kevin Corcoran As my family filed out of Indy’s Catholic cathedral to a recessional hymn, a bagpiper fired up “Danny Boy.” That final touch, inspired by wife Lucia, culminated the funeral Mass and an “Irish toast” the night before at The Irving Theater that brought together an array of…

By Kevin Corcoran Raised by Irish Catholic alcoholics, including a father who died on “skid row” when he was 12, my dad finally quit drinking when he was 36, a commitment that defined his life. …

By Kevin Corcoran Ed Asner’s death prompted me to consider how dire the local news environment has grown since I chose journalism as a career. Asner starred in the CBS drama “Lou Grant” when I delivered morning routes for The Indianapolis Star in elementary and high school. The show’s plotlines seemed realistic. And the way “Lou Grant” portrayed covering news made journalism appear exhilarating to a teenager who enjoyed writing and asking tough questions.

By Kevin Corcoran CAMP ATTERBURY, Indiana — When the U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan collapsed this summer, film producer Joan Lynch worked tirelessly from her desert home in the West to help people flee. The desperation of Afghans who had aided the United States during our 20-year occupation alarmed Lynch, a…

By Kevin Corcoran Is what we do at foundations any different from marketing consumer products? I certainly had hoped so when I left my 20-year career in journalism, MBA in hand. …