BOSTON (Aug. 26, 2025) — This month, the PBS investigative series FRONTLINE, produced at GBH in Boston, welcomes the 2025-26 reporting fellow Skye Lucas, MA ’25.

Now in its third year, this year-long fellowship aims to expose new and emerging investigative journalists to FRONTLINE’s award-winning approach to documentary storytelling, immersing fellows into all phases of the series’ reporting and production process.

Lucas joins FRONTLINE’s newsroom after graduating from the Missouri School of Journalism with a focus on data journalism. During her studies at Mizzou, Lucas explored communications law and other factors influencing the broader media industry. 

Lucas previously received a Real Arts internship from the University of Pennsylvania in 2021, interned and worked at The Flathead Beacon in Montana and worked as a local reporter covering housing matters for Missouri Business Alert. She also contributed to an investigative series on concussions for the Columbia Missourian,and to an upcoming series by Missouri Journalism School students. 

“We’re so pleased to welcome Skye to our newsroom and look forward to seeing how her investigative storytelling skills can support our reporters and filmmakers.”

Raney Aronson-Rath, editor-in-chief and executive producer, FRONTLINE.

Over the next year, Lucas will have the opportunity to work alongside FRONTLINE’s filmmaking teams to aid in the development of the series’ acclaimed documentaries. This work will include contributing to the research and development of stories, reporting out leads, wrangling and analyzing data, helping set up interviews and shoots, as well as various tasks as documentaries undergo editing, vetting and post-production.

She will also have a chance to contribute to FRONTLINE projects on other platforms — including pursuing and crafting digital stories for FRONTLINE’s website and working with the series’ Local Journalism Initiative partners — local news outlets producing investigative journalism projects.

“Skye’s hands-on, Missouri Method training in reporting and research have prepared her well for this prestigious opportunity,” said David Kurpius, dean of the School of Journalism. “Her talent and experience make her a valuable addition to a team that delivers important, impactful journalism to the public.”

“We’re so pleased to welcome Skye to our newsroom and look forward to seeing how her investigative storytelling skills can support our reporters and filmmakers,” says Raney Aronson-Rath, editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE. “We’re grateful to Jonathan Murray through The Murray/Reese Foundation, and to the Missouri School of Journalism for their generous, continued support of this fellowship.”

About FRONTLINE

FRONTLINE, U.S. television’s longest running investigative documentary series, explores the issues of our times through powerful storytelling. FRONTLINE has won an Academy Award® as well as every major journalism and broadcasting award, including 110 Emmy Awards and 34 Peabody Awards. Visit pbs.org/frontline and follow us onFacebook, Instagram and YouTube to learn more. FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and is broadcast nationwide on PBS. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional support for FRONTLINE is provided by the Abrams Foundation, Park Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund, with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen.

About The Missouri School of Journalism

The Missouri School of Journalism is an international leader in journalism education. Some of the best journalists in the world have learned their profession through the Missouri Method, which provides practical hands-on training at five professional news outlets and two strategic communication agencies. Students and faculty regularly earn top awards and recognitions from international, national, and other organizations.

Updated: August 26, 2025