Washington

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.

Alex Frick

Before joining the Port Townsend and Jefferson County Leader, Alex Frick studied journalism at the University of Florida. As a non-traditional student, Frick returned to school to pursue his reignited passion for storytelling and discovered journalism. While in college, he interned at the Leader, where he experienced firsthand the challenges of providing consistent and sufficient, high-quality local news coverage in rural areas. Frick was also one of 24 students from the United States selected by CNN to participate in a 10-day global crisis simulation in Abu Dhabi, joining 120 students from 20 countries to experience fast-paced reporting under pressure. Prior to his return to school, Frick worked in automotive management, following in his father’s footsteps where he developed valuable leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills. He now brings that same drive, curiosity, and passion to covering real-life stories and pressing issues in Jefferson County.

Owen Racer

Before joining Cascadia Daily News, Racer reported on intergenerational farming in Ecuador and El Salvador for The Guardian, documenting how consumerism, climate change and emigration collide on farms that future generations decide to inherit or leave. In Washington, D.C., he covered the IRS and Congress for Bloomberg. In New York City, he reported on maternal health disparities, riding the city’s subways with mobile mental illness teams to explain how the increasingly popular model of mental health care impacts the workforce. From producing audio stories on mental health for NPR stations WHYY and WVXU in Cincinnati, Ohio, his hometown, to photographing youth impacted by gun violence in New Orleans, his reporting crosses topics and mediums. During the 2024 presidential election, he was the lone U.S. correspondent for The Kyiv Independent, Ukraine’s English-language media outlet, covering campaigns, foreign policy and Congress. He holds a master’s degree in journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in New York City.

Simmerdeep Kaur

Before joining the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, Simmerdeep Kaur was the lead reporter at the Redwood City Pulse, where she covered city government and launched the newsroom’s first-ever podcast. The series featured in-depth interviews with Redwood City Council candidates ahead of the 2024 elections. Kaur’s odyssey into journalism began as an undergraduate, working as a part of her university’s editorial team and interning at several newsrooms in India. As a Master’s student at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, she was determined to reinvent herself and go beyond writing. She acquired data skills by learning Python and tools for visualizations to serve as a strong supplement to her stories. Kaur is a firm believer that in an era of growing threats to press freedom, robust journalism is more essential than ever. Over the past three years, she has reported on a wide range of topics, including police brutality, threats to press freedom, AI warfare, and the dangers of lithium-ion batteries.

Alexander Banks

Before joining the Yakima Herald-Republic, Banks completed two internships with the Baker City Herald, through the University of Oregon's Snowden internship, and the Statesman Journal, in partnership with the Asian American Journalists Association. During those internships, he covered education, economic development, breaking news and feature stories. He holds a bachelor’s degree in creative writing from Oregon State University and is currently studying for his master’s in strategic communications from Washington State University. His passion for journalism started while working for OSU’s student newspaper, The Daily Barometer, where he wrote his first feature story on the dean of the College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences. Banks enjoys screenwriting, photography, videography and learning Spanish in his free time. A fun fact about him is that his mother used to be a columnist for The Oregonian.