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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 […]

I want to say something to our readers and our supporters here at Civic News Company about last week’s presidential election. However you voted, many of us right now are united in a sense that our politics are broken — and that our country may not be able to take on the challenges we face. […]

By: Elizabeth Green, Founder and CEO In 2020, our organization decided to build on our work of local education reporting. We started a new operation devoted to covering the administration of elections, Votebeat. We did this because I couldn’t sleep at night. I worried that, amid then President Trump’s allegations of fraud and a global […]

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 […]