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We help you bring accountability journalism to community news gaps you’ve long wanted to fill—but haven’t had the resources.
Report for America strengthens local newsrooms across the country by providing talent, funding and fundraising support. To date, Report for America has partnered with more than 450+ newsrooms across the U.S. in all 50 states and Puerto Rico, Washington, D.C. and Guam.
As a Report for America host newsroom, you will join a growing network of newsrooms who have received transformative assistance from our program. We’re here to help you grow, too.
Meet the Report for America recruitment team, and ask questions about becoming a host newsroom. Register now.
Meet the Report for America recruitment team, and ask questions about becoming a host newsroom. Register now.
Meet the Report for America recruitment team, and ask questions about becoming a host newsroom. Register now.
Meet the Report for America recruitment team, and ask questions about becoming a host newsroom. Register now.
We pre-screen early career journalists who meet your needs, and you choose your hire. We pay half their salary, up to $25,000 (our cap is $30,000 for very experienced journalists) and provide them with ongoing training and support while they work for you. Meanwhile, we provide your newsroom with curriculum and coaching to help you fundraise for your share of the salary.
Participating newsroom partners include nonprofit and for-profit organizations, daily and weekly newspapers, digital only newsrooms, TV and radio stations. They’ve been in every state, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and Guam.
These are the main criteria:
Other factors include having the following:
Any news organization that is committed to providing objective, civically important local journalism. That could include public radio and TV stations, newspapers, digital sites, commercial radio and TV stations, wire services, or journalism schools providing direct journalism. The organization can be nonprofit or commercial.
The window to apply for consideration as a host newsroom opens September 15 and the deadline to apply is October 20. Report for America reviewers will assess applications through November and schedule virtual interviews via Zoom for finalists in December and January. We’ll announce winning host newsrooms in January 2026, and open the corps member application cycle for journalists to apply for the positions. Host newsrooms will select among a slate of candidates we provide, and they’ll start in your newsroom in July 2026.
This term refers to the money you raise in the community to support this reporting position. One of the goals of this program is to encourage local philanthropy to support journalism in a bigger way. We also believe that successful news organizations will have to build stronger community support in general whether its through membership, subscriptions, events or philanthropy. So we strongly encourage news organizations to involve the community to support the RFA corps member.
Corps members’ stories hold public officials accountable and reveal the complexity and richness of communities.
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