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WUSF

WUSF is the NPR station for the Tampa Bay region; we are committed to providing accurate, honest journalism that helps the public understand the community and the world. Our journalists are independent, curious, and respectful. As a newsroom, we are committed to listening and engaging with the community to provide journalism that reflects the place we call home. This addition to the newsroom will be supported by the entire team as well as two senior editors who can guide and coach this new talent.

Mississippi Today

Mississippi Today aims to be the authoritative voice on politics and policy in Mississippi, producing robust coverage of elected officials, government offices and legislative action. Our team produces a mix of daily and enterprise reporting, with award-winning investigations on justice, race and equity. Education coverage is essential to our newsroom and includes K-12, as well as a higher education beat. We continue to expand coverage on issues facing women and girls, our many neighbors living in poverty and the ongoing environmental challenges in our region.

KERA News

NPR and Texas public radio stations collaborated to form the Texas News Hub. It’s the first step in a systemwide collaborative project to create a nationwide virtual public radio newsroom of 1,000-plus journalists. The collaboration includes two daily, hour-long statewide programs (Texas Standard and Think) and will soon include six daily statewide newscasts, and a statewide digital news desk. The Hub is working to hire and train freelance and small station reporters to provide news service to underserved communities in the state’s news deserts.

Chattanooga Times Free Press

The Times Free Press is a for-profit newspaper that has served its community for more than a century and a half, since 1869 when the Chattanooga Daily Times was created. The paper serves readers in Southeast Tennessee and Northwest Georgia with the mission of building community connections and providing fact-based journalism that informs and empowers our readers.

Tampa Bay Times

The Tampa Bay Times, winner of 14 Pulitzer Prizes, is Florida’s largest newspaper and a trusted source for news. As a locally owned and independent media organization, the Times also operates tampabay.com. In addition to its flagship publication, the company publishes the free weekly tbt* Weekend and Bay magazine, offering comprehensive coverage of local news, entertainment and lifestyles. The Times now employs 80 full-time journalists — each dedicated to delivering impactful, in-depth reporting.

Fauquier Times

Located less than an hour from Washington, D.C., Piedmont Media operates two print and digital news sites serving Prince William and Fauquier counties. The organization has consistently produced award-winning journalism and is financially stable with strong philanthropic support. We are in the midst of a transformation of two traditional weekly newspapers — the Prince William Times and the Fauquier Times — to more strongly connect with readers. We are seeking to grow our coverage of diverse communities.

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.

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.