inewsource
A nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative newsroom, inewsource is a dedicated to improving lives in the San Diego region and beyond through data-based investigative and accountability journalism.
California
Mission Local
Mission Local is more than a neighborhood news site. This nonprofit news organization, based in San Francisco's Mission District, reports on the city’s most pressing issues: police reform, housing, homelessness and education. Mission Local focuses on producing trustworthy journalism, and stories are published in English and Spanish.
North State Public Radio (NSPR)
North State Public Radio enhances the civic and cultural vitality of the 11 counties in Northern California it serves by providing reliable and trustworthy news and information. This news organization provides access to varied expressions of music, arts, entertainment and a respectful exchange of ideas.
The Associated Press
The Associated Press is a global news agency that began 172 years ago as a cooperative of five New York City newspapers. With 263 locations in more than 100 countries, AP provides journalism to roughly 15,000 media outlets around the world. AP sets standards for ethics and excellence, and has won 52 Pulitzer Prizes, including the 2016 gold medal for Public Service for an investigation into labor abuses in the seafood industry, reports that freed more than 2,000 slaves. AP’s seven news bureaus in the northeast U.S. provide vital local and regional news to 378 newsrooms.
Ventura County Star
The Ventura County Star is a digital and print news organization that has been serving Ventura County in coastal Southern California for more than 90 years. We are the only daily newspaper located in Ventura County. We are a general news organization, with an emphasis on watchdog, government, health and environmental issues. Ventura County has a population of about 860,000. We cover all of the county’s 10 cities and the unincorporated areas.
Joshua Yeager
Joshua Yeager covers the environment, rural issues and local governments for the Visalia Times-Delta newspaper in the heart of the agricultural San Joaquin Valley. He has devoted his three-year career at the paper to exposing inequalities in Tulare County towns suffering contaminated and insufficient drinking water. He won a first-place California News Papers Association award for his coverage of Sierra Nevada’s historic 2020 wildfire season. An avid Sierra hiker, he has recently investigated forest management policy oversights that have resulted in the death of thousands of giant sequoia trees.
Daniel Casarez
Daniel Casarez reports for the Visalia Times-Delta in Visalia, California, where he covers the state's Central Valley south with a focus on Tulare County. A multimedia journalist, Casarez has reported on evictions during the pandemic for Retro Report, a nonprofit news organization that publishes short-form documentaries. For years he reported for Vida en el Valle, a bilingual publication serving California's Central Valley. His fellowship at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism resulted in coverage of the effects of asthma on Latino children living in rural communities, and he was a multimedia contributor to a series on Valley fever, a lung infection. A graduate of Fresno Pacific University, Casarez has earned awards from the California News Publishers Association and the National Association of Hispanic Publications. He grew up in a farm-working family in Calwa, located in Fresno County, part of the Central Valley.
Jesse Bedayn
Jesse Bedayn reports on economic inequality for The Mercury News in San Jose, California. Before becoming a Report for America corps member, Bedayn studied investigative reporting and narrative writing at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, where he wrote about health care and aging in California and investigated the fraught world of for-profit nursing homes for the Investigative Reporting Program. Bedayn has worked as a stringer for The New York Times and as a research and data assistant at KQED public radio, he plumbed through police use-of-force cases for The California Reporting Project. Bedayn holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Kent in England. As editor of the student paper InQuire, he won local awards and shared the paper's first national U.K. award since the paper's inception in 1965. Bedayn grew up in the foothills of California's Sierra Nevada, and spends his free time rambling in the mountains.
Melissa Montalvo
Melissa Montalvo covers childhood poverty in California's Central Valley for The Fresno Bee. Before this, Montalvo, a bilingual reporter, covered the food and agriculture industries, Indigenous issues, and Mexican American culture as a freelancer, with bylines in Civil Eats, L.A. Taco, and more. Montalvo was born in Southern California, raised in the Arizona desert, and identifies as a daughter of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. She graduated from the University of Southern California with a B.A. in international relations, minors in business law and French, and Renaissance scholar and Global scholar distinctions. In 2015, she won a Fulbright Award to serve as an English teaching assistant at Mexico's Universidad Tecnologica de Jalisco in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Montalvo is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
Neil Strebig
Neil Strebig is a chef-turned-journalist, reporting on local business for Lookout Santa Cruz, a website devoted to covering community news. A former reporter for the York Daily Record in York, Pennsylvania, Strebig focused primarily on food, business, and issues in the hospitality industry. He has written about breaking bread with Amish and refugee families, and restaurant workers' financial struggles and lack of healthcare. His in-depth reporting highlighted problems surrounding the state liquor license laws, and how the state's tourism and restaurant industry can recover after the pandemic. Strebig's work has appeared in USA Today and throughout its network, and earned him an award. He grew up in Easton, Pennsylvania, and was managing editor of The Northside Chronicle in Pittsburgh, which earned its first Golden Quill award from the region's Press Club during his tenure. Strebig holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Pittsburgh's Point Park University.