Our Programs
Reach out
Press On’s programs pay homage to the Southern traditions of storytelling that have long resisted the systems of extraction, exploitation, and colonization that have defined mainstream journalism.
By providing a diverse set of resources that include trainings and workshops, a reporting residency, grants, and opportunities for network-building, we aim to help journalists, storytellers, and media makers produce reporting that’s driven by communities that are building power to create transformative social change.
Level Up
Press On’s popular education program, Level Up, strives to meet the needs of Southern movement journalists, media makers, and organizers by increasing their understanding of emergent grassroots justice issues within movement and media landscapes, as well as advancing their technical media skills. This program cultivates community and capacity among journalists and storytellers from communities of color and LGBTQIA+, rural, disabled, immigrant, youth, elder, and working-class communities.
Freedomways Reporting Residency
The Freedomways Reporting Residency is a program for journalists and storytellers in the U.S. South whose work serves to advance justice.
We named this program in homage to the journal “Freedomways,” which published the work of journalists, artists, thinkers, and organizers who were integral to the Black freedom movement from 1961 until 1985. Freedomways participants receive mentorship and technical support to produce a series of stories that are rooted in relationships with social movements and communities on the frontlines of struggle.
Southern Movement Media Fund
The Southern Movement Media Fund provides individual and collective grants to Southern media makers and journalists who practice movement journalism, providing them support to work alongside their communities, with each other, and movement partners to produce the news and information people need to make informed decisions about their lives.