AUGUSTA, Georgia — Augusta is gaining a new newsroom, a new source for community-centered journalism, and a familiar voice to help lead it.
Capital B has named award-winning Augusta journalist Renetta DuBose as the founding editor of Capital B Augusta, its newest local newsroom.
Known to audiences throughout the region thanks to her 10 years as a reporter, anchor, producer, and multimedia journalist with WJBF NewsChannel 6 — and through her signature RenettaReports platform — DuBose has spent much of her career asking questions, digging beyond the surface, and telling stories that matter to Augustans.
Now, she will help build a new newsroom embodying that.
Capital B Augusta will focus on rigorous, fact-based journalism while telling a fuller story of Black life in Augusta — its people, neighborhoods, challenges, accomplishments, institutions, culture, and opportunities. Its reporting will include public safety, government accountability, health, education, and other issues affecting residents’ everyday lives, while also connecting people to useful information, resources, and opportunities. The approach is rooted in what Augustans themselves have said they want from local news. It will be available on the web and by newsletter.
Ahead of its launch, Capital B spent months listening to residents and community leaders and partnered on a survey of more than 500 Black Augustans about their local information needs. Residents expressed a desire for credible reporting that addresses difficult issues without allowing those issues to become the entirety of their community’s story. They also called for more coverage of achievement, resilience, available resources, and opportunities to connect with one another. Capital B Augusta intends to answer that call.
“Renetta loves Augusta, and that care for her community comes through in her journalism,” said Kelly Virella, executive editor of Capital B News. “She has spent more than a decade listening to residents, asking tough questions, and keeping attention on stories that matter to families here.
“We’re thrilled to have her lead Capital B Augusta,” Virella added. “We want to build a newsroom that Black residents can turn to for answers, that holds people in power accountable and that helps people understand what’s changing and what they can do next. Renetta shares that vision, and we’re excited to build it with her.”
DuBose brings more than two decades of journalism and communications experience to the role. Her career has included reporting, producing, anchoring, and multimedia journalism, as well as corporate communications and media relations.
Her work has also demonstrated a long-standing commitment to investigative and accountability journalism. DuBose received Media General’s D. Tennant Bryan Award for Excellence in Investigative Journalism for a four-part investigative series examining school bus issues.
She later created WJBF’s Cold Case Project, a series that revisited cases involving missing and murdered people across the region and helped reconnect families, law enforcement, and the public around cases that had faded from the headlines.
Among the stories DuBose has followed is the disappearance of Dannette and Jeannette Millbrook, the 15-year-old Augusta twins who vanished in 1990. Her reporting over the years helped keep attention on a case that remains part of Augusta’s history and an enduring search for answers.
That kind of journalism — persistent, local, and grounded in the lives of real people — will be central to DuBose’s work as Capital B Augusta’s founding editor.
“Augusta became my home more than a decade ago, and I fell in love with this community because Augustans have a passion that I recognize in myself,” DuBose said. “My years of reporting here taught me how deeply people care about their families, their neighborhoods, and the future of this city and how important it is to have journalists who understand that.
“Journalism, for me, has always been about helping people. I feel a responsibility to keep people informed and help them navigate life, especially during its toughest moments. I’m passionate about reporting on education and crime, holding people and systems accountable, pursuing justice and making sure stories and voices that too often go overlooked receive the attention they deserve.
“Returning to local journalism is meaningful because I’m not just reporting on Augusta; I’m part of this community, and I want the best for it. I want Capital B to be an information guide for the Garden City. A place where Augustans feel seen, heard, and informed, and a trusted voice and heartbeat of this community,” DuBose said.
Capital B’s arrival also marks a new chapter in Augusta’s tradition of Black-centered journalism. For generations, Black-owned and Black-focused media have helped document people, institutions and stories that are inseparable from Augusta’s history. Capital B Augusta enters that tradition not simply to report about the community, but to build relationships within it, listen to its residents and produce journalism responsive to their information needs.
The newsroom will be Capital B’s third local operation, joining its newsrooms in Atlanta and in Gary, Indiana. Capital B Augusta will officially introduce itself to the community during a launch event in the coming weeks, bringing together residents, community leaders, and others to learn more about the newsroom, meet DuBose, and share their ideas about what Augusta needs.
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