City Bureau and Cook County announce the inaugural recipients of the Digital Equity IMPACT Small Grants Program
Calling it as we see it!
The city’s money nightmare before — and after? — Christmas.
This Idaho-based innovation strategist is joining our team to drive user-centered product design that can be of service to City Bureau’s communities
City Bureau partners with Cook County to launch the Digital Equity IMPACT Small Grants Program.
City Bureau’s Documenters Network is launching new sites in Ohio, California, Texas, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania!
This human-centered design expert joins our team to improve our systems and create infrastructure that supports our work.
Documenters surveyed neighbors, siblings and co-workers about the last time the Democratic National Convention was in Chicago and found striking similarities to the present day.
Our programs equip people with skills and connections rooted in Chicago and beyond
Ahmad Sayles and Bill Garcia are the first Chicago Documenters to reach their 100th assignment covering local public meetings. We asked them to reflect on the past five years.
Since 2018, we’ve equipped a thousand people with the tools of journalism to demystify local government processes. Read about our favorite civic side hustle, what we’ve learned and where we’re headed next.
This Chicago-based organizer, educator, and artist joins our team to develop responsive network-wide trainings and resources for site staff and Documenters around the country.
This talented facilitator and program manager is joining our team to streamline our processes and equip us with resources to strengthen our Documenters programs across the country.
This investigative reporter turned coder is joining our team to build and maintain the tech that fuels our participatory media programs.
5 ways we focused on making our Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation more accessible to the people who need these stories and resources most
After nearly nine years as co-founder and co-leader at City Bureau, Bettina Chang is moving on to her next chapter.
City Bureau and Invisible Institute, two nonprofit newsrooms based in Chicago, have won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting for the “Missing in Chicago” series, written by Sarah Conway and Trina Reynolds-Tyler and published in November, the Pulitzer Prize Board announced Monday afternoon.
Last year, we doubled the size of the Documenters Network by expanding the program from seven sites to fourteen.
The Chicago journalism community is collaborative and close-knit in ways that benefit not just us, but the city we cover at large.
We’re looking at our Civic Reporting fellowship program and how we train emerging journalists.