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Making news together | We work with journalists and communities to produce more equitable and impactful media.

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About us

OUR MISSION Founded in 2015, City Bureau is a nonprofit civic journalism lab based in Woodlawn on the South Side of Chicago. We bring journalists and community members together in a collaborative spirit to produce equitable media coverage, encourage civic participation and hold powerful forces to account. OUR VISION City Bureau envisions a future in which all people are equipped with the tools and knowledge to effect change in their communities.

Industry

Civic and Social Organizations

Company size

11-50 employees

Headquarters

Chicago, Illinois

Type

Nonprofit

Founded

2015

Specialties

journalism, civic engagement, and media

Locations

Employees at City Bureau

Updates

We’re hiring a Chicago Director for our flagship Documenters Program! Please circulate this widely and help us find a community-oriented, strategic, and innovative leader to evolve the program, manage a team, and deepen our roots and relationships with communities on the South and West sides of Chicago. You should apply if: - You're excited about strengthening civic life and creating new pathways for participation in the production, consumption, and distribution of locally relevant civic information - You have a knack for building systems for effective program management - You're an adept strategist who can innovate and evolve programs - You're deeply rooted in communities on the South and West sides of Chicago 📍 This is a Chicago-based hybrid role. 📅 Please apply by October 13. #hiring #nonprofitjobs #mediajobs #chicagojobs
We're Hiring a Chicago Director for our Documenters Program — City Bureau citybureau.org
Breaking news: City Bureau’s Civic Reporting fellow Sebastián Hidalgo spent the last six months investigating allegations of physical violence against migrant day laborers outside a Home Depot on Chicago’s Southwest Side. Day laborers say they are being beaten, harassed, and targeted outside the Home Depot by off-duty Chicago police working security, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday. Sebastián’s reporting prompted the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, commonly known as COPA, to open an investigation into off-duty Chicago police working at the site. Read our exclusive here:
Migrant day laborers say they are being beaten at Home Depot by off-duty Chicago police — City Bureau citybureau.org
We're hiring an eagle-eyed, collaborative, and patient Civic Editor to develop and manage our civic journalism coverage and oversee editorial projects across multiple beats, using the tools of engagement journalism. Join us in producing information through a racial equity lens and mentoring emerging journalists! 📌 Chicago-based, hybrid 📌 Rolling interviews; Applications close July 19.#Hiring #nonprofitjobs #editorjobs #mediajobs #journalism #localnews #communityengagement
🎉 Milestone alert: we're celebrating 1,000+ Chicago Documenters trained! Our Documenters program trains and pays people to monitor local government, contribute to the public record, and hold power to account. Since we founded Documenters in Chicago 2018, we've trained more than 1,000 people — that’s 1,000 people better equipped to decode and demystify local government processes and advocate for their communities. Read more in our Notebook blog. Founded in Chicago, Documenters has expanded into a multi-local network with partners across the country through our Documenters Network, currently active in 17 cities and counting.
Celebrating 1,000 Chicago Documenters Trained — City Bureau citybureau.org
Earlier this week we were honored to participate in a panel about the impact of community-driven local news in Chicago – and the need to invest in it – with our friends at Invisible Institute, South Side Weekly, Medill Local News Initiative, Public Narrative, and co-hosted by City Club of Chicago, MacArthur Foundation, and The Chicago Community Trust. Our senior reporter Sarah Conway and Invisible Institute’s Trina Reynolds-Tyler discussed the deep community engagement that informed their Pulitzer Prize-winning Missing in Chicago investigation in a panel moderated by Olivia Obineme. In some ways the event felt like a homecoming, because the venue – Experimental Station – was City Bureau’s original home. Our time in that space generated many transformative conversations and partnerships in our earliest days, and it was exciting to see people connecting and talking about new possibilities in Chicago, and how Chicago can continue to influence the national landscape. The local news ecosystem is inspiring, generative, and powerful, and we’re so proud to be part of that story. And if you haven't yet read Missing in Chicago, explore it here: chicagomissingpersons.com #NonprofitNews #LocalNews #Journalism #CivicEngagement

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