Category: From the newsroom

A partnership between Charlottesville Tomorrow, journalist Jordy Yager, and Vinegar Hill Magazine has received $35,000 from the Facebook Journalism Project’s COVID-19 Local News Relief Fund Grant for a new series, “Determined: Stories of Resilience in a Broken Ecosystem,” that examines the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 on African American communities through the lens of the Social […]

The Virginia Press Association on April 30 announced the winners of its 2019 News & Advertising Contest. Charlottesville Tomorrow’s staff won 11 first-place awards. Charlotte Rene Woods, MHJ Media and former staff writer Emily Hays shared a first-place award for their video interview of writer and historian Ibram X. Kendi and Jefferson School African American […]

With the end of the semester at University of Virginia, Charlottesville Tomorrow once again says goodbye to a talented and hard-working reporter. Kate Hidalgo Bellows, a soon-to-be 2020 UVa graduate, has reported locally for four years as an enterprise reporter for The Cavalier Daily and has worked with Charlottesville Tomorrow as a freelancer this spring […]

When our newsroom decided to drop everything to focus on COVID-19 coverage, we knew that we couldn’t do it alone. Two young journalists with ties to our community have decided to help our small team report on the pandemic and what it means for life in the Charlottesville area. Kate Hidalgo Bellows, from Fairfax City, […]

Charlottesville Tomorrow is taking a road trip. From Monday afternoon to Wednesday evening, Executive Director Giles Morris, News Editor Elliott Robinson and reporters Billy Jean Louis and Charlotte Rene Woods will be in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (our sincerest apologies to Cavaliers fans for heading to the home of our rivals during basketball season). We’re […]

Hi! It’s Emily, your faithful real estate and urban planning reporter. I have some personal news to announce: I’m moving to Connecticut to join the staff at another online news nonprofit, the New Haven Independent. The move is good for me professionally, as it’s a chance to learn new skills as a community reporter in a very […]

As part of our ongoing effort to be accountable to our community, Charlottesville Tomorrow on Monday worked with local activist Don Gathers to hold our third community feedback session at the historic First Baptist Church on West Main Street. 

Three journalists from 0629.com.ua, an online news outlet in Mariupol, Ukraine, visited Charlottesville Tomorrow last week. The three-day visit was part of an exchange program organized by non-governmental organization International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) that could result in members of our newsroom visiting Eastern Europe within the next year. Editor Yuliia Sviashchenko and reporters Hanna […]

Giles will be in New Orleans this week rubbing elbows with fellow Online News Association members at the annual digital news conference. On Wednesday, he’s spending the whole day with trainers Kerry Donahue and Lindsay Abrams from PRX at the INN Business Intensive to learn how to grow audiences for public affairs podcasts, like Soundboard, […]