The Center for Community News Champions program recognizes and supports journalism leaders who build partnerships between newsrooms and college reporting programs. Recipients receive coaching and training to help grow their news/academic programs.
2025 CCN Champions
Associate Professor, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Director of First-Year Forum, Faculty in Cultural Studies and Languages, Bennington College
Lecturer/Climate Communication Specialist, Stony Brook University
Professor of Communications, Vermont State University Castleton
General Manager, Delaware Public Media
Professor of Practice, Texas Tech
News Director, WCMU Public Radio, Central Michigan University
Station Manager, WKMS, Murray State University
Professor of Practice, Loyola University New Orleans
Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Studies, University of Tulsa
Associate Director, Reed School of Media & Communications, West Virginia University
Professor, California State University, San Bernardino
Lecturer in Journalism, University of Rhode Island
Editor, The Invading Sea, managed by the Florida Atlantic University Center for Environmental Studies
Associate Professor and Senior Researcher, Syracuse University Institute for Democracy, Journalism & Citizenship
Director, Florida Student News Watch
Director, Center for Community Voices, WYSO
Professor, Journalism Unit Coordinator, SUNY Oswego
Senior Lecturer, Journalism Program Director, Reporter Magazine Faculty Advisor, Rochester Institute of Technology
Director of Student Media, Rice University
Associate Professor/Graduate Program Director, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Pace University
Journalism Instructor, University at Buffalo
Borderzine Director and Professor of Practice of Journalism in the Department of Communication, University of Texas at El Paso
Journalism Professor, Southern Connecticut State University
Journalism Professor and Program Coordinator in the Faculty of Media, Art & Design, Durham College
Director, WUOT & WUTK, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Associate Professor and Director of the Institute for Rural Journalism, University of Kentucky
Adjunct Professor, Bowie State University; Founder and Editor, The Bowie Sun
Professor, Journalism Department, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo
Journalism Institute Manager, Colorado College
TV Production Studio Manager, Central State University
Professor of English and Journalism, Chaffey College
Professor of English, Arizona Western College
Associate Professor of Communication, Landmark College
Assistant Professor, Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, Northwestern University
Associate Professor of Practice, School of Communication, The Ohio State University
Department Chair/Professor, University of Cincinnati Clermont
Interim Station Manager, WUTC, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
English Faculty/Lead Journalism Faculty, Front Range Community College
Lecturer, Department of Communication and Journalism, University of Maine
Assistant Teaching Professor of Marketing and Communications/Campus Internship Coordinator, Pennsylvania State University, Greater Allegheny Campus
News Director, KAZU
Assistant Professor, UNC Chapel Hill
Unified Media Director, Ball State University
Assistant Professor, Journalism Department, University of North Dakota
News Director, WPSU, Penn State University
Associate Professor of English, Worcester State University
Filmmaker and Journalist-in-Residence, Western Colorado University
Professor, Faculty Advisor to the student newspaper, Internship Supervisor, Northeastern Illinois University
Adjunct Instructor and Director of the Charlotte Journalism Collaborative, Knight School of Communication at Queens University of Charlotte
Lecturer, Department of Communications, University at Albany
General Manager, KUAF Public Radio, University of Arkansas
Associate Director of Digital Media, SUNY Polytechnic Institute
Director of the Journalism Program and Professor of the Practice, Brandeis University
Instructor and Neighborhood News Bureau Director, University of South Florida St. Petersburg
Journalism Program Director, The City College of New York
Tenured Professor, Coordinator of the Journalism Department's writing program, School of Communication, University of Miami
Senior Editor and Producer, WXXI Public Broadcasting
CEO and President, Rocky Mountain Student Media, Colorado State University
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Communication, Pittsburg State University
Media Educator and Field Producer, CCTV: Center for Media and Democracy/Town Meeting TV
Student Media Adviser and Associate Professor of Journalism, Murray State University
Lecturer in Journalism, SUNY Brockport