CatchLight Local Visual Desk

Visual highlights from the CatchLight Local Visual Desk in 2024.This spring, local news outlets across the United States will become part of a national visual journalism initiative led by CatchLight and Report for America (RFA) to provide inclusive, accurate, and locally contextualized information to the public through accessible, high-quality visual journalism. Following decades of jobs decline in the journalism industry that have disproportionately affected visual professionals, this initiative will fill the gap in underserved markets to reach audiences wherever they consume their news by placing full-time photojournalists with salary subsidies in select newsrooms nationwide.

The fellowship application is open until Monday, February 3, 2025, inviting qualified photographers to apply for full-time staff positions with the following newsrooms joining the CatchLight and RFA initiative:
Borderless Magazine (Chicago)The Current GA (Savannah, Ga.)Fort Worth Report (Texas)Lookout Eugene-Springfield (Oregon)Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service (Wisconsin)MinnPost (Minneapolis)Mirror Indy (Indianapolis)MLK50 (Memphis, Tenn.)Montana Free Press (Helena, Mont.)Signal Cleveland (Ohio)Verite News (New Orleans)The Waco Bridge (Texas)

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Participating newsrooms will also receive comprehensive visual desk support from the CatchLight Local Visual Desk, which provides a suite of shared services, tools, and training to enhance its members’ visual reporting capabilities. To date, CatchLight has helped establish 10 long-term photojournalism positions and played a key role in advancing audience growth and engagement for their newsroom partners. Early support and partnership from RFA helped spur this success. Visual reporting collaborations with the CatchLight Local Visual Desk have informed policy decisions at the local, state, and federal levels by intimately documenting on-the-ground perspectives that are commonly overlooked in mainstream news.In 2025, CatchLight will accelerate at a faster pace than ever in its history, more than doubling the number of newsrooms it currently serves. For the first time since its founding, membership to the CatchLight Local Visual Desk is open to all U.S.-based local newsrooms that are seeking visual solutions for their audience and sustainability objectives. 

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The CatchLight Local Visual Desk was made possible with initial investments from Enlight Foundation, Hearst Foundations, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and The Kresge Foundation, in partnership with PhotoWings. Additional support has since come from Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Arnold Ventures, the MacArthur Foundation and Press Forward.

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