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Commonwealth Beacon

CommonWealth Beacon is a nonprofit, nonpartisan source of in-depth news, analysis, and original reporting on policy, politics, and civic life in Massachusetts. Our mission is to contribute to a more inclusive and vibrant civic culture that makes our government more responsive and effective by providing rigorous coverage of important issues affecting life in Massachusetts.

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.

City Bureau

City Bureau is a Pulitzer Prize-winning sustained impact newsroom and innovation lab reimagining local journalism, civic media, and participatory democracy. As a training newsroom it is core to our mission to equip aspiring and early career journalists with the tools and collaborative opportunities to learn from Chicago journalists as they report on under-represented communities on Chicago's South and West sides.

Pinal Central

PinalCentral covers the entirety of Pinal County, which is a rapidly growing area between the Phoenix and Tucson metropolitan areas. We focus on community journalism (like local governments) while also tackling larger regional issues (like water, housing and criminal justice).

Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting

The Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting is the state’s only independent, nonpartisan and collaborative nonprofit newsroom dedicated to statewide, data-driven investigative reporting. AZCIR holds powerful people and institutions accountable by exposing injustice and systemic inequities through investigative journalism.  

Today’s New Herald

Today's News-Herald serves as the local news source for Lake Havasu City and Mohave County in Northwest Arizona. We're a small news organization with a big heart, committed to delivering local news and a tightly curated mix of state and national coverage. Our readers include longtime Arizona residents, snowbirds from the Midwest, Northeast, and Canada, and transplants from California, creating a vibrant and dynamic community that makes for an engaging news environment. Located along the scenic Colorado River, Today's News-Herald embraces the region's vibrant outdoor lifestyle while striving to uncover and tell the stories that matter most to our community.

Nogales International

The Nogales International is an award-winning newspaper founded in Nogales, Arizona, in 1925. It is published on Tuesdays and Fridays and is a division of Wick Communications Company. Wick Communications is a third-generation family-owned community media company with newspapers, websites, magazines, and specialty publications nationwide. Nogales is located on the U.S.-Mexico border. It is 60 miles south of Tucson, AZ, and 150 miles south of Phoenix, AZ. The Nogales International reports on issues affecting residents of Santa Cruz County, including Nogales, Rio Rico, Tumacacori, Tubac, Amado, Patagonia, Sonoita and Elgin. Articles about issues and activities in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, are also published.

Bangor Daily News

A 135-year-old business owned by one family, the Bangor Daily News increasingly serves the entire state of Maine with an earlier shift to digital than most midsize papers. This news organization prizes strong journalism that serves readers and connects communities.

Gulf Coast Media

Gulf Coast Media publishes four newspapers in coastal Baldwin County, Alabama. Three are more than 100 years old. GCM is in Alabama’s fastest-growing county, where beaches attract tourists by the millions. Evolution is innate at GCM. Our print and digital products, harnessed with hyper-local reporting, aim to strengthen bonds at a grassroots level. Helping people – multi-generational residents, newcomers and visitors – feel connected to their home or haven through informative, thoughtful and fun storytelling leads the reins.

Oviedo Community News

Oviedo Community News is a nonprofit, independent newsroom serving Greater Oviedo and Winter Springs, Florida. The Greater Oviedo and Winter Springs community was a news desert before Oviedo Community News launched in 2021. Its mission is to create a better informed and connected community through independent, public service journalism that focuses on issues that residents told us matter to them.