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CALmatters Wins Online News Association 2018 OJA Award
UPDATED: September 17, 2018. CALmatters’ explainer on California’s high housing costs won a first-place award Saturday from the Online News Association. NPR producer Niala Boodhoo, host of the award...
View ArticleNew K-12 Education Reporter To Join CALmatters
We’re very pleased that Ricardo Cano is joining our CALmatters team next month to cover K-12 Education in California. Cano joins CALmatters, the state news nonprofit dedicated to explaining how...
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Aguilera recognized as one of the most influential Latina journalists of the...
We at CALmatters are excited to share that Health and Welfare Reporter Elizabeth Aguilera has been selected by the California Latino Journalists News Media Association (CCNMA) as one of the 15 Most...
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Donna Lucas, Christy Chin join CALmatters advisory board
Donna Lucas CALmatters welcomes Donna Lucas, President and CEO of Lucas Public Affairs, and Christy Remey Chin, a Venture Partner at the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, on to the CALmatters Advisory...
View ArticleCALmatters Wins Innovation Award for 2018 Election Guide
We are excited to share that CALmatters has won the prestigious EPPY award for our California election guide. The guide was recognized as the Best Innovation Project on a website with under 1 million...
View ArticleCALmatters Has a New CEO
Neil Chase, an experienced leader of news organizations and journalism innovator, will join CALmatters as Chief Executive Officer on January 2, the board of directors announced today. Chase will assume...
View ArticleReport for America Enables a Unique Journalism Collaboration
Report for America, the national service program that places journalists in under-covered communities, is funding three reporters for an ambitious effort focused on California’s worst-in-the-nation...
View ArticleCALmatters takes home 23 awards from the California News Publishers Association
CALmatters took home 23 awards, including nine first place winners, at the California News Publishers Association Journalism Awards dinner in Long Beach, CA. The awards, given out May 4, celebrate the...
View ArticleIntroducing a new look for CalMatters
CalMatters is your organization, created to serve you and funded by your donations. I’m proud to report that we’re taking your nonpartisan, nonprofit newsroom to a new level this week with a number of...
View ArticleGimme Shelter talks Trump, Newsom and NIMBYs
As the name implies, “Gimme Shelter: The California Housing Crisis Podcast,” is never short on problems to discuss. The two hosts, Matt Levin of CalMatters and Liam Dillon of The Los Angeles Times,...
View ArticleCalifornia Divide media collaboration adds a veteran journalist in Los Angeles
Nigel Duara, a national, multi-media journalist, will join CalMatters to cover poverty and inequality issues as part of the California Divide project, a unique collaboration among major state news...
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CalMatters expands its coverage of health care
Jocelyn Wiener, an award-winning Bay Area journalist with international experience, will join CalMatters to write about Californians and their experience with health care. Wiener worked recently as a...
View ArticleCalMatters Names Three Media and Industry Leaders To Its Board
KQED president emeritus John Boland, Voice Media Ventures founder Paulette Brown-Hinds, and author and farmer David “Mas” Masumoto have joined CalMatters as the newest board members, the nonprofit...
View ArticleWhy We Applied for a Loan
As California began to shut down in March, the CalMatters board of directors asked me to focus on one question: Will the virus crisis threaten our ability to deliver extraordinary journalism at a time...
View ArticleIntroducing the CalMatters College Journalism Network
More than 3 million students. Hundreds of campuses. A state higher education budget of $36 billion. As we’ve heard so often lately, California is a nation-state, and its system of colleges and...
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Equity at CalMatters
In summary Our journalists are focused today on issues of equity across California. But as a public-service organization funded by your donations, it’s important that we’re transparent about equity...
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New leaders, new aspirations
In summary With three new positions, CalMatters takes the next step in its growth. At the tender age of five, CalMatters is a success. We’ve reduced the gap in coverage of state policy and politics....
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College Journalism Network expands, announces new partnerships
The CalMatters College Journalism Network will double in size this fall, offering paid fellowships to a diverse cohort of 14 student journalists from campuses across California. We launched the...
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Support CalMatters on our 6th birthday
I joined CalMatters when we launched in July 2015, and back then we were a small team of just six employees jammed inside a tiny office in downtown Sacramento. With one editor and three reporters on...
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Use our new tool to learn about your legislators and monitor their voting...
Six years ago, we started CalMatters with a bold mission to deliver strong public service journalism that empowers Californians to engage with their state government. I’m excited to share with you...
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