Charlottesville Tomorrow

Our mission: Charlottesville Tomorrow delivers in-depth reporting and analysis that improves local decision-making. We seek to expand civic engagement to foster a vibrant, inclusive, and interdependent community.

Our vision: We have a vision for news that informs and serves everyone, puts the people most impacted at the center of our reporting, and helps to create stronger, healthier, more connected communities.

Our history: Over 20 years, Charlottesville Tomorrow has evolved from a small civic information website to a robust news organization with a growing editorial team and a dedicated business, operations and product staff. Since its founding in 2005, Charlottesville Tomorrow has shared free and accessible information about civic life. Originally a two-person team focused on local government and regional development, Charlottesville Tomorrow steadily grew in size and scope to cover a variety of news topics. In 2017, we began shifting to a community-driven model. Understanding that media often sidelines (or actively harms) communities of color and people with limited access to wealth and resources — and that in central Virginia, this has especially impacted Black communities — we started building relationships across diverse groups. In 2020, we co-founded Charlottesville Inclusive Media with two trusted Black media organizations, Vinegar Hill Magazine and In My Humble Opinion Radio Show.

Charlottesville Tomorrow is a nonprofit, independent newsroom reporting on central Virginia. We have a vision for news that informs and serves everyone, puts the people most impacted at the center of our reporting, and helps to create stronger, healthier, more connected communities.

Charlottesville Tomorrow shares useful information, context that builds understanding, transparency and accountability, and reporting that inspires, connects and works toward a positive future. We serve our neighbors by connecting them to each other and to the issues that affect them most. Our mission is to deliver in-depth reporting and analysis that improves local decision-making and to expand civic engagement to foster a vibrant, inclusive, and interdependent community. Our organization and reporting are inspired by our values: truth, community and equity.