Rashah McChesney is a print and broadcast journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the Deputy Editor for the Gulf States Newsroom and a reporter for Alaska’s Energy Desk at KTOO in Juneau. Currently, she’s editing a project with KYUK and ProPublica and in 2024, she bought the weekly Chilkat Valley News in Southeast Alaska where she is focused on building a sustainable local newsroom.