Chalkbeat, Votebeat, and Healthbeat help people strengthen their communities with journalism that is rooted in local needs and subject matter expertise. Our reporting covers the critical, day-to-day work and life experiences of the people who fight to improve education, voting, and public health outcomes and the people affected by that work.
And while local journalism seems to be collapsing and national media focuses less on people and more on polarization, the powerful, and profit, our journalists work to serve communities. We measure our success not by dollars or clicks, but by the civic debates we inform and the civic actions we inspire.
Civic News Company is a part of and working to fuel a civic revival in local communities across America.
Chalkbeat covers one of America’s most important stories: the effort to improve schools for all children, especially those who have historically lacked access to a quality education.
We are mission-driven, in that we believe that every child deserves an excellent education, and that a strong press is vital to making that happen. Yet we are also fiercely independent, in that we do not take a position on the best path for achieving better schools.
Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization committed to reporting the nuanced truth about elections and voting at a time of crisis in America.
Our approach is to cover and explain the mechanics of voting — no political polls, candidate platforms, or Election Day results. Instead, we focus on how elections are run, from early and mail-in voting to voter registration and election security. Because we believe that elections are fundamentally a local issue, our coverage is rooted in local communities.
Healthbeat is a partnership between Civic News Company and KFF Health News working to report the story of public health in America. It's an essential story for these skeptical times, when people need reliable coverage of the safety net our public health system is supposed to provide.
We will cover the news around the systems of prevention - from infectious diseases to air and water quality, food safety and research about our collective well-being.