Media News - Friday, May 28, 2010
US: Bay Citizen nonprofit news producer launches, nabs USD 3.7m
The Bay Citizen, a nonprofit news organization based in San Francisco, launched Wednesday with a staff of 25, and said it raised USD 3.7m in multi-year funding. In addition, the Bay Citizen has raised more than USD 65,000 from its founding member campaign, which to date has attracted donations of USD 50 or more from “more than 750 individuals,” according to the nonprofit. Its website, www.baycitizen.org, features enterprise reporting from its newsroom of fourteen reporters and editors, along with various community blog posts and opinion columns. Officials said the site emphasizes community engagement by inviting user-submitted tips and stories and “citizen blogs,” which are created by users and hosted on the Bay Citizen site. The Bay Citizen, formerly known as the Bay Area News Project, was conceived as a way to ensure the survival of locally generated news coverage when it appeared that the San Francisco Chronicle might be in danger of folding early last year. It later morphed into its current iteration, and says it’s intended to enhance civic and community news coverage in the Bay Area, stimulate innovation in journalism and foster civic engagement. Coverage includes public policy, education, the arts and cultural affairs, health and science, and the environment, officials said. An arrangement to produce articles in the New York Times’ Bay Area section on Fridays and Sundays is expected to kick in “shortly.” (San Francisco Business Times)
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