Our Subscribers
CNS serves more than 100 news organizations in Richmond and across the commonwealth, including:
¶ Metro dailies such as the Richmond Times-Dispatch, The Virginian-Pilot and the Daily Press of Newport News
¶ Smaller daily newspapers including the Free-Lance Star in Fredericksburg, the Daily Progress in Charlottesville and the Progress-Index in Petersburg
¶ Weeklies in Northern Virginia, Tidewater, the Richmond suburbs and the state’s southern and western regions
¶ NBC, CBS and ABC affiliates in Richmond and Hampton Roads, as well as NPR stations and WTOP News Radio
¶ Digital startups like RVA Hub, Inside NoVa, Potomac Local and Virginia Mercury
Moreover, we feed select stories to The Associated Press, which distributes them to its clients throughout the country and the world. As a result, CNS stories have been published by The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, the Charlotte Observer, U.S. News & World Report and many other leading news organizations.
In addition, we partner with the CNS program at the University of Maryland. Maryland CNS distributes many of our stories to its clients, including the McClatchy News Service.
In 2018, CNS staffers collectively wrote and distributed more than 270 news stories, plus photos, videos, graphics and social media content. Each story is usually published by multiple news outlets. Overall, the students accumulated more than 1,000 “clips” for their portfolios. Here is a sampling:
Here are the newspapers and other media outlets that receive CNS stories:
| News outlet | Geographic area |
| Altavista Journal (Campbell County) | West |
| Amelia Bulletin Monitor | Central |
| Ashland Herald-Progress | Central/RVA |
| Bay Journal | Specialty: Chesapeake Bay |
| Bedford Bulletin | West |
| Blackstone Courier-Record (Nottoway County) | South/Central |
| Bristol Herald Courier | Southwest |
| Bristow Beat | NOVA |
| Brunswick Times-Gazette | South |
| Caroline Progress | Central |
| Catholic Herald (Arlington) | Speciality: social issues |
| Central Virginian (Louisa) | Central |
| Charlottesville Daily Progress | Central |
| Charlottesville Tomorrow | Central |
| Chesterfield Observer | Central |
| Coalfield Progress / Dickenson Star | Southwest |
| Commonwealth Times | Speciality: VCU |
| Connection Newspapers | NOVA |
| Culpeper Times | NOVA |
| Daily Press (Newport News) | Hampton Roads |
| Danville Register & Bee | Southside |
| Decide Smart | Speciality: politics |
| Eastern Shore News / Delmarva Now (Accomack-Northampton) | Eastern Shore |
| Eastern Shore Post | Eastern Shore |
| Emporia Independent-Messenger | South |
| The Enterprise (Patrick County) | South/Southwest |
| Fairfax Free Citizen | NOVA |
| Fairfax Times | NOVA |
| Falls Church News-Press | NOVA |
| Farmville Herald | South/Central |
| Fauquier Now | NOVA |
| Fauquier Times | NOVA |
| Floyd Press | Southwest |
| Fluvanna Review | Central |
| Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star | North/Central |
| Galax Gazette | Southwest |
| Gay RVA / RVA Mag (same publisher / editors) | Central/RVA |
| Gloucester-Mathews Gazette-Journal | Eastern/Northern Neck |
| Greene County Record | North/Central |
| Halifax Gazette Virginian | South |
| Harrisonburg Daily News-Record | West/North |
| Henrico Citizen | Central/RVA |
| Hopewell News | Central/RVA |
| InsideNoVa.com (Northern Virginia Media Services) | NOVA |
| KerrLakeGuide.com – LakeGastonGuide.com | South |
| Local Kicks | NOVA |
| Loudoun Times-Mirror | NOVA |
| Lynchburg News & Advance | West |
| Martinsville Bulletin | South |
| Mechanicsville Local | Central/RVA |
| NBC12 (WWBT; Richmond NBC) | Central/RVA |
| Northern Neck News / Westmoreland News | Eastern/Northern Neck |
| Northern Virginia Daily | North |
| Orange County Review | North/Central |
| Patch (Northern Virginia) | NOVA |
| Potomac Local | NOVA |
| Powhatan Today | Central/RVA |
| Prince William Times | NOVA |
| Progress-Index (Petersburg) | Central/RVA |
| Quail Bell Magazine | Specialty: long-form |
| Rappahannock News (Rappahannock County) | North/Central |
| Rappahannock Times (Essex and King & Queen) | Eastern/Northern Neck |
| Rappahannock Record (Kilmarnock) | Eastern/Northern Neck |
| The Recorder (Monterey and Warm Springs, Highland County) | West/North |
| Richmond2Day | Central/RVA |
| Richmond BizSense | Speciality: social issues |
| Richmond Free Press | Central/RVA |
| Richmond Outside | Central/RVA |
| Richmond Times-Dispatch | Central/RVA |
| Roanoke Star | West |
| RVA Hub | Central/RVA |
| RVA Mag / GayRVA (same publisher / editors) | Central/RVA |
| Shenandoah Valley Now | West/North |
| Smith Mountain Eagle | West |
| Smithfield Times | South/Hampton Roads |
| South Hill Enterprise | South |
| Southside Sentinel (Urbanna; Middlesex County) | Eastern/Northern Neck |
| Southside Daily (Virginia Beach) | Hampton Roads |
| Southwest Times (Pulaski) | Southwest/West |
| Southwest Virginia Today | Southwest/West |
| Star-Tribune (Chatham-Pittsylvania County) | South/Southwest |
| Staunton News Leader | West/North |
| Suffolk News Herald | South/Hampton Roads |
| Sussex-Surry Dispatch | South/Hampton Roads |
| The Patriot (Pulaski County and Radford) | Southwest/West |
| Tidewater News (Franklin, Southampton, Isle of Wight) | South/Hampton Roads |
| Tidewater Review (West Point, King William, New Kent, King & Queen) | Eastern/Northern Neck |
| VCU InSight | Specialty |
| Village News (Chesterfield) | Central/RVA |
| Virginia Business | Specialty: business |
| Virginia Free Citizen | Specialty: politics |
| Virginia Gazette (Williamsburg) | Central/Hampton Roads |
| Virginia Mercury | Specialty |
| Virginia Mountaineer (Buchanan County) | Southwest/West |
| Virginia Star (Scott County) | Southwest |
| Virginian-Pilot | Hampton Roads |
| The Voice (Whitewood; Buchanan County) | Southwest/West |
| Warren County Report | West/North |
| Warren Sentinel | West/North |
| WAVY (Hampton Roads NBC) | Hampton Roads |
| WCVE Public Radio (Richmond, Heathsville, Chase City NPR) | Central/RVA |
| WFXR-TV (Roanoke NBC) | West/Roanoke |
| WHSV-TV (Harrisonburg ABC) | West/North |
| Williamsburg-York Daily | Central/Hampton Roads |
| WRIC (Richmond ABC) | Central/RVA |
| WTKR (Hampton Roads CBS) | Hampton Roads |
| WTVR (Richmond CBS) | Central/RVA |
| WVCW (VCU student radio) | Specialty: VCU |
| WVTF/RADIO IQ (NPR statewide) | Statewide |
| Wythe News (part of Southwest Virginia Today) | Southwest/West |
| Smythe County (part of Southwest Virginia Today) | Southwest/West |