Founding Partners, other charter members:

• America Online (*)
• Virginia Association of Broadcasters (*)
• Virginia Library Association
• Virginia Press Association (*)
• Landmark Communications Foundation (*)
• The (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot (*)
• The Roanoke Times (*)
• Media General (*)
• The (Richmond) Times-Dispatch (*)
• (Charlottesville) Daily Progress
• Danville Bee
• (Lynchburg) Daily Advance
• WDBJ-TV, Roanoke (*)
• WTKR-TV, Norfolk (*)
• WVEC-TV, Norfolk (*)
• (Newport News) Daily Press (*)
• The Free Lance-Star, WFLS/WYSK, Fredericksburg (*)
• The Winchester Star, (Harrisonburg) News-Record (*)
• Amherst New-Era Progress
• Nelson County Times
• The Valley Banner
• Warren Sentinel
• Page News & Courier
• The Shenandoah Valley-Herald
• The Associated Press
• Virginia Association of Law Libraries
• School of Mass Communications, Virginia Commonwealth University
• Department of Journalism, Norfolk State University
• Department of Communication Studies, Virginia Tech
• Collegiate Times, Virginia Tech
• The Flat Hat, College of William & Mary
• Society of Professional Journalists' Legal Defense Fund
• Society of Professional Journalists, Virginia Professional Chapter
• Virginia Press Women
• Virginia Newspaper Photographers Association
• Virginia Associated Press Broadcasters
• Blue Ridge Public Television, Roanoke
• WVTF, Roanoke
• WSLS-TV, Roanoke
• WSET-TV, Lynchburg
• Central Virginia Educational Telecommunications, Richmond
• WRIC-TV, Richmond
• WRVA/The Virginia News Network, Richmond
• WWBT-TV, Richmond
• WTVR-TV, Richmond
• WVIR-TV, Charlottesville
• WINA/WQMZ/WKAV, Charlottesville
• WUSA-TV, Washington, D.C.
• Hampton Roads Educational Telecommunications, Norfolk
• Bristol Herald-Courier
• Floyd Press
• Byerly Publications
• Farmville Herald
• The Carroll News
• The (Lexington) News Gazette
• Tidewater Newspapers
• Norton Press
• Nottoway Publishing
• Potomac News
• Powhatan Today
• The Times, Smithfield
• The Library of Virginia
• Clerk of courts, Wise County
• League of Women Voters, Montgomery County
• City of Roanoke

(*) James Madison benefactor (underwriter gift of at least $5,000)