California

Redding Record Searchlight

The Record Searchlight is a leading source for news and information north of Sacramento, California. We are part of the USA Today Network and have an ambitious newsroom. The Record Searchlight is tightly woven into its community and traces its modern history to the first edition of the Redding Record in 1938, when work began on the construction of Shasta Dam. For eight decades it has been the leading news source in Shasta County and neighboring rural counties in California’s vast but sparsely populated North State.

Radio Bilingüe

The Radio Bilingüe (RB) Latino Public Radio Network is the leading producer of Latino-oriented and Spanish-language news and cultural programming in public radio nationally. We've been on the air since 1980. Our main national news platforms are 1) Línea Abierta (Open Line), the first and only live Spanish news and information program broadcast each weekday featuring top headlines, newsmakers and analysis, 2) Edición Semanaria (Weekend Edition), the only Spanish weekly news and feature public radio magazine, and 3) the website radiobilingue.org. These platforms feature reports and voices from Latino communities across the nation broadcast on our own 24 noncommercial radio stations in California, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, and 65 affiliate stations across the U.S.

The Mendocino Voice

The Mendocino Voice, founded in 2016, is an online, independent, worker owned, general interest news service with an emphasis on breaking news, government reporting, and community events. We publish multiple times daily on our website and across social platforms. Rural Mendocino County, in northern California, has become a news desert, and our goal is to go beyond merely restoring the old status quo, by providing coverage to communities that were left out even before the collapse of the news industry. We are transitioning to a worker-reader co-op with funding from Facebook Community Journalism Project/Lenfest Institute.

Long Beach Post

Long Beach Post is a daily, digital publication covering news, life, business, placemaking, food, sports, LGBT issues and more in the city of Long Beach, California. We became the largest newsroom in the city last summer when a handful of journalists from the city's legacy newspaper resigned amid an onslaught of layoffs and cutbacks at their publication and joined the Post.

inewsource

inewsource is a 10-year-old investigative nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom dedicated to improving lives in the San Diego region and beyond through impactful, data-based investigative and accountability journalism. We were founded in 2009 amid a deep recession and a catastrophic downsizing of newspapers and network media in San Diego and across the country. Some of the greatest casualties of the disruption were investigative journalists, bulldogs in the industry whose passion was uncovering wrongs and wrongdoers in the name of the public good. That is why we have made it our mission to fill that gap by delivering original investigative reporting that is precise, transparent and impactful.  

The Oaklandside/Berkeleyside

Berkeleyside is a 10-year-old city news site that provides granular coverage of Berkeley, CA, a high-profile city in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our strength is in breaking news and in digging in deep on important issues of accountability. We have been successful in creating a loyal and highly engaged community of readers, and are seen as a model for digital local news nationally. We have recently converted to nonprofit status in order to create mission-driven newsrooms in more cities. Our first launch, in spring 2020, is in neighboring Oakland, a city of 420,000 in the throes of transformation.

Theodora Yu

Theodora Yu worked in a startup investigative organization in Hong Kong called FactWire News Agency, where she covered child abuse, a suspected arson attack in a wetland and other controversies. She earlier worked as a video assistant for the Associated Press in Hong Kong. She earned her Bachelor degree at University of Hong Kong and an M.A. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she was a Toni Stabile Fellow in Investigative Reporting. She speaks Cantonese, Mandarin and a bit of Japanese.  

Risa Johnson

Risa is a multimedia reporter who has worked for the Chico Enterprise-Record in California. She covered local politics and the community impacts of local disasters, including the Camp Fire in November 2018 and the Oroville Dam crisis in 2017, for which she won an award from the California News Publishers Association. Her team at the Enterprise-Record was nominated for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in breaking news reporting for their coverage of the California wildfires. Born and raised in southern California, Risa earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism from California State University, Chico, where she was editor-in-chief of the student publication.

Manuela Tobias

Manuela is a former staff writer for PolitiFact, where she covered politics, health care, immigration and international trade. She was also a researcher for Politico, a research assistant at The New Yorker, and an intern at New York Magazine. She was a 2018 International Fact-Checking Network Fellow and contributed research to an ASME award-winning multimedia feature, “This is The Story of One Block in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn”. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tobias lived in New Hampshire, New Jersey and London before moving to Washington, D.C. She has a B.A. in comparative literature from Georgetown University.

Kaitlin Washburn

Kaitlin has been a reporter and editor for the Columbia Missourian and a researcher for Investigative Reporters and Editors. She’s also interned for the Center for Responsive Politics, The Oregonian and The Morning Call. In 2018, Kaitlin was awarded the Keystone Press Award for Investigative Reporting by the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association for an investigation into the upkeep of fire department equipment, reporting she did as an intern for The Morning Call. She’s covered local, state and national politics, cannabis, campaign finance, dark money and the ouster of a mayor and a governor. Kaitlin graduated in May with a B.A. from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Kaitlin reports on how regulations are affecting farms of all sizes, how labor issues affect the poverty of farm workers, and how farm subsidies play a role in funding the production or non-production of crops in the area. Inside the nation’s most productive agricultural regions, reporting is increasingly difficult due to the private nature of large agricultural businesses and their operations, as well as the language and trust barriers between local media and farm laborers. The local economy is reliant on undocumented workers who pay into the social welfare system but do not have access to benefits of the system, such as health care, mental health and social security income. The local economy is also heavily subsidized by the government as farmers, both large and small, are paid to either produce, or in some cases, not produce crops to control the market.