2026-2027

Statesman-Examiner

The Statesman-Examiner is a weekly newspaper that lives and thrives by the drumbeat of “local, relevant and timely.” Based in Colville (population 5,000), we strive to represent each of the small communities in eastern Ferry County and all of Stevens County in northeast Washington state. We are the community storyteller and recorder of history. We inform the public and hold our public institutions accountable, serving as a fundamental support to a functioning and vibrant democracy.

Longview Daily News

The Daily News covers Cowlitz County, Washington and Rainier and Clatskanie, Oregon. Our mission is to explain how stories connect to readers' lives and broader national and global issues. When Mount St. Helens blew its top 44 years ago, The Daily News was there, winning a Pulitzer Prize and other awards for our coverage. Lee Enterprises, which owns The Daily News, is also a leading provider of local news and information and a major subscription and advertising platform, with daily and weekly newspapers and rapidly expanding digital products serving 114 markets across 25 states.

Quincy Valley Post Register / NCWLIFE television

NCWLIFE television / Quincy Valley Post Register in Grant County is one news team of multimedia reporters and visual journalists producing content that serves North Central Washington communities across television, newspaper, social and digital channels. We disseminate news, events, and ideas that help shape the way our neighbors view where they live and the world beyond. We produce stories and narratives that have a positive impact on those we cover and serve.

Wenatchee World / NCWLIFE television

The Wenatchee World / NCWLIFE television is one news team of multimedia reporters and visual journalists producing content that serves North Central Washington communities across television, newspaper, social and digital channels. We disseminate news, events, and ideas that help shape the way our neighbors view where they live and the world beyond. We produce stories and narratives that have a positive impact on those we cover and serve.

The Inlander

The Inlander, founded by the McGregor family on the conviction that free and independent journalism helps a community thrive, has provided award-winning news, arts and culture coverage in the Spokane-Coeur d’Alene area since 1993. Talented journalists from all over have come here to be a part of something special. The Inlander is our name, but it’s also an identity, a frame of mind, a people and a place, bound by geography and core community values.

Salish Current

Salish Current is a six-year-old nonprofit, community-supported online publication providing Washington state readers in Whatcom, San Juan and Skagit Counties with daily, open-access local news, encouraging civil discourse, informed decisions and stronger sense of community. Our locally based reporting focuses on environment, justice and culture with intersections of health, education, transportation, economy, housing and culture, and local, state, federal and Indigenous governance. We report and edit according to Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics.

Ana Quibrera

Ana Quibrera writes, hosts, and produces two widely successful spanish-language radio shows. Fueled by her passion for bilingual and multicultural mental health education, her weekly shows cover a range of mental health and wellness topics as well as guided meditations, respectively. Ana is a stress management specialist, mental health professional, meditation teacher, interpreter, and translator, who highly values communication and community building. She enjoys traveling, dancing, and spending time with her family.

Adrian Ashford

Adrian Ashford covers religion for the Houston Chronicle. Ashford studied religion and politics at Harvard University and wrote a thesis on a new theology of religious exemptions. After college, he spent two and a half years as the faith reporter at The Dallas Morning News through Report for America. Before coming back to the God beat, he covered campaigns and elections for the South Carolina Daily Gazette. He’s also covered arts and entertainment for The Boston Globe and USA TODAY. Ashford grew up in Wilmington, Delaware, and as a kid memorized 21 chapters of the Bible.

Nathan Collins

Prior to joining The New Bedford Light, Collins investigated everything from a statewide surveillance network to private prisons for The News & Observer, and dug into public records as the Dallas accountability reporter for the North Texas NPR affiliate. He started his career in graduate school working on a national investigation into police tactics with The Associated Press, which was later named a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Collins holds a master’s degree in investigative journalism from Arizona State University and a bachelor's degree in music from the University of Southern California. Before becoming a reporter, he was a professional musician who recorded and performed with artists including Solange Knowles and Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman, John Fogerty.

Erick Solorzano

Erick Solorzano is a reporter at Cardinal covering accountability in New River Valley. Prior to joining RFA, Solorzano pursued a career in marketing and communications, serving in key roles for a private corporation and a mission-driven nonprofit. Solorzano’s dream of becoming a journalist began at the University of Georgia, where he graduated in 2020 with a bachelor's of arts from the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications. As a first-generation college student, Solorzano discovered his passion for storytelling by becoming a student news contributor for The Red & Black newspaper and a student news reporter for Grady Newsource, the university’s student-run television news program. Although his post-graduate career began in other professional industries, Erick Solorzano never lost sight of what becoming a journalist meant to him and the community he serves. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he created The Solo Segment, an independent social media news channel covering important news events in Georgia and the world. Today, he’s proud and grateful to transition from independent journalism into a staff journalist role.