Civic News Company

Civic News Company, the nonprofit publisher of Chalkbeat, Votebeat, and Healthbeat, has hired Nathaniel Rakich as Votebeat’s managing editor.

Civic News Company, the nonprofit publisher of Chalkbeat, Votebeat, and Healthbeat, announced today that its Board of Directors has elected Amanda Bennett and Felicia Wong as new directors. Bennett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, investigative journalist, and editor, is the former CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, where she oversaw U.S. international broadcasting to

Civic News Company, the nonprofit publisher of Chalkbeat, Votebeat, and Healthbeat, announced today that it has hired experienced nonprofit executive Jonathan Thornton as its new Chief Philanthropy Officer.

Civic News Company is pleased to announce the appointment of Carrie Levine as the new Editor-in-Chief of Votebeat, our nonprofit newsroom dedicated to election administration coverage. Levine, who has been serving as interim Editor-in-Chief and previously as Managing Editor, steps into the role at a pivotal time as interest in democracy and elections continues to

Today, Civic News Company is publishing a new report on the local information needs of New Yorkers. Based on a poll conducted late last year, it outlines the gaps New Yorkers feel between the local information they view as important to their lives and what’s available to them each day. It also explores their specific

Last week, we published a new report on the local information needs of Americans. Today, we’re excited to follow that up with our first local report examining one city’s information needs: Chicago. You can read it here. The report is anchored in a survey of more than 1,500 Chicagoans  done by EMBOLD research, a non-partisan,

Today, we’re publishing a new report that gives new insight into the local information needs of Americans. It is anchored in a national survey done by EMBOLD research, a non-partisan, non-political data science and research company. Earlier this year, they surveyed over 2,000 Americans on their views of the importance of and satisfaction with information

75 Election Administration Experts Will Answer Urgent Questions Votebeat, a nonprofit newsroom covering election administration in five key states and at national levels, has launched a free “Expert Desk” service for journalists to help strengthen their coverage of complex election issues ahead of the November election. The free service will consist of a Slack channel

NEW YORK – Chalkbeat, the nonprofit newsroom covering education across the U.S., in collaboration with Headway, an initiative of The New York Times, has kicked off a project showcasing how students are experiencing this election as November nears.  Chalkbeat and Headway have been posing questions about the presidential election to educators and high school students

Local Reporting and New York Epidemiologist Will Power Healthbeat New York’s Newsletter   NEW YORK – Healthbeat, a new nonprofit newsroom covering public health, and the popular and influential newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist launched an ongoing editorial partnership in New York this week. The organizations will collaborate to co-produce and distribute to New Yorkers the