Happy New Year from Equal Access Public Media

Dear supporters,

As 2025 comes to a close and 2026 commences, we’d like to take a moment to thank you for helping us build these first two years. Thank you for your support, both with your dollars and your words. We couldn’t have done it without you.

We’d also like to take some time to reflect on how far we’ve come and where we’re going next.

In 2024, we built EAPM up. We launched the organization and organized. In 2025, we began launching our projects.

We launched the EAPM Style and Accessibility Guide, The Word, and held multiple free trainings. We began offering paid training services to news outlets and organizations. We built the National Tab, though funding to launch it never came through.

So what’s in store for 2026?

We intend to grow the Style and Accessibility Guide. It’s a living, breathing guide, and it will always be growing and changing.

We’d like to secure funding to hire on full-time reporters for The Word. Very quickly, The Word found its voice as covering journalism from an accessibility point of view for journalists. We’re always asking the question, “How does this affect accessibility?” Of course, the site was built accessibility-first. Now, we’d like to hire beat reporters to cover:

• Unions and labor issues;
• Collegiate and university media;
• Local, start-up, and emerging media;
• DEIA in media;
• Tech and AI in media;
• And more.

We are excited for growth, and we hope you are too. We’re breaking down barriers every day, and we have no intention of turning back now.

Stick with us because the future of news is accessible.

On behalf of the board, the team, and our families, Happy New Year from us to you,

Stacy Kess

Chief of editorial

E. Simone Jenerson

Chief of operations

National Tab site relaunches

EAPM’s most ambitions project has relaunched and will soon feature a proof of concept.

In November, chief of editorial Stacy Kess attended the Reynold’s Journalism Institute Community-Centered Symposium, which included a $500 stipend for a project. That stipend is being used to build the proof-of-concept for how the National Tab will present news to a national audience.

With the site redesigned and moving toward a proof-of-concept, we are now applying for large grants and seed-funding for this project, which will lead the way on how to make news accessible to more audiences, as well as change the way newsrooms think about covering national news.

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