2025-2026

Charlottesville Tomorrow

Charlottesville Tomorrow is a community-driven, socially conscious news organization and we serve our neighbors by connecting them to each other and to the issues that affect them most. We center our organization and news processes on our values — truth, community and equity — and we work to improve the health of our local news community and ecosystem through our inclusive practices in hiring, journalism and partnership.

WRKF

WRKF Baton Rouge Public Radio was founded in 1980 by community members to inform and entertain area residents. It provided NPR news, cultural programming, and local news reporting. Now, in addition to broadcasting news coverage, WRKF produces podcasts and online news. The station increased its capacity for local news reporting by partnering with WWNO public radio in the neighboring city of New Orleans in 2017. The combined newsroom now has a ten-person news team.

WOUB Public Media

WOUB Public Media is a NPR and PBS affiliate licensed to Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. WOUB serves 55 counties throughout Appalachian southeastern Ohio, western West Virginia and eastern Kentucky with its broadcast signals. By developing partnerships to expand news coverage, thinking outside the box and deepening the conversation, WOUB is providing diverse content to listeners and viewers across the region.

Commonwealth Beacon

CommonWealth Beacon is a nonprofit, nonpartisan source of in-depth news, analysis, and original reporting on policy, politics, and civic life in Massachusetts. Our mission is to contribute to a more inclusive and vibrant civic culture that makes our government more responsive and effective by providing rigorous coverage of important issues affecting life in Massachusetts.

KOLD-TV/13News

13 News is a Gray Television station and the CBS affiliate in Tucson, Arizona. We are committed to the highest standards of excellence in our Live, Local, Late Breaking news coverage. We provide the most comprehensive and ethical local broadcasting and digital content in Southern Arizona. We produce 62 hours of live, televised newscasts per week between KOLD and our shared services partner, KMSB Fox 11. We provide streaming content on our 13+ platform.

Stocktonia

Stocktonia is a nonprofit, digital-native news source. It is devoted to the most important news in Stockton and San Joaquin County and guided by the best practices in journalism. In 2024, Stocktonia became a part of NEWSWELL, devoted to finding new ways to help local news – and local communities – thrive. Today, this startup, digital-native website employs one of the largest teams of local journalists in the region. With community support, it continues to grow.

WSLS–TV

WSLS-TV, the Graham Media Group station in Roanoke, VA, has been a cornerstone of the Roanoke community since its establishment in 1952 as the region’s first television station. Now, we’re looking to reinvent local broadcast news. As part of an incubator program, we’re hiring three RFA Corps Members to develop local news videos each day, mainly delivered on social media to start. We will analyze daily video experiments, discovering the preferences of our target audience: people in their 30s and 40s who care about their community but don’t connect to existing local news brands. What we learn will help transform WSLS—and the industry.

WSLS–TV

WSLS-TV, the Graham Media Group station in Roanoke, VA, has been a cornerstone of the Roanoke community since its establishment in 1952 as the region’s first television station. Now, we’re looking to reinvent local broadcast news. As part of an incubator program, we’re hiring three RFA Corps Members to develop local news videos each day, mainly delivered on social media to start. We will analyze daily video experiments, discovering the preferences of our target audience: people in their 30s and 40s who care about their community but don’t connect to existing local news brands. What we learn will help transform WSLS—and the industry.

Santa Cruz Local

Santa Cruz Local is a local news organization that serves residents of Santa Cruz County and the Pajaro Valley. Santa Cruz Local was founded in 2019 by local journalists who wanted to give residents an unbiased, fair and accurate source of local news and information. In 2023, we launched Noticias Watsonville, Spanish-language audio news on WhatsApp. Now, we’re building civic news for young people.

City Bureau

City Bureau is a Pulitzer Prize-winning sustained impact newsroom and innovation lab reimagining local journalism, civic media, and participatory democracy. As a training newsroom it is core to our mission to equip aspiring and early career journalists with the tools and collaborative opportunities to learn from Chicago journalists as they report on under-represented communities on Chicago's South and West sides.