June 24, 2025 | Editor & Publisher | City Bureau is scaling civic journalism, one Documenter at a time

June 19, 2025 | The Fulcrum | Lite vs. the Real Thing: What the No Kings Protests Taught Us

June 8, 2025 | Block Club Chicago | At ‘We Walk For Her,’ Activists Call For New City Office Dedicated To Missing Black Women And Girls

May 21, 2025 | Columbia Journalism Review | Local Journalism Thrives on Ambition and Optimism

April 24, 2025 | Northwestern Medill News | Medill Midwest Solutions Journalism Hub announces Micro Awards to four Chicago newsrooms

April 3, 2025 | Poynter | Poynter welcomes inaugural class for ‘Covering Child Welfare: A Journalist’s Guide to Impactful Reporting’

March 13, 2025 | South Side Weekly | What Does The Public Meetings Report Mean to You?

January 6, 2025 | Block Club Chicago | Haircuts, Tattoos And Punch: Newly Arrived Migrants Are Using Creativity And Cultures To Overcome Work Barriers

January 6, 2025 | Block Club Chicago | What Makes Day Labor So Difficult For Chicago Migrants

December 11, 2024 | Nieman Lab | The rebirth of local news

November 6, 2024 | The Goldendale Sentinel | New news organization holds events in the Gorge

September 10, 2024 | Axios | Media leaders, philanthropists raise $15M for local news initiative in LA

September 6, 2024 | Windy City Times | ‘I know what I’m worth’: The joys and struggles of Chicago’s migrant go-go dancers

August 24, 2024 | Crain’s Chicago Business | A new class of Chicago journalists is out to reshape the narrative

August 14, 2024 | Crain’s Chicago Business | Philanthropy has entered the race to save local news. Will it be enough?

August 8, 2024 | The Kansas City Star | Off-duty cops singled out migrant day laborers and beat them while handcuffed, suit says

May 24, 2024 | Editor & Publisher | A behind-the-scenes look at making Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism

May 6, 2024 | Poynter | Small newsrooms won big in the 2024 Pulitzers

May 6, 2024 | Chicago Sun-Times | City Bureau, Invisible Institute and Chicago author Jonathan Eig awarded Pulitzer Prizes

October 26, 2023 | Nieman Lab | For the Chicago-based Investigative Project on Race and Equity, training the next generation matters as much as the reporting

October 23, 2023 | Fox 17 | ‘The Rapidian’ celebrates relaunch in Grand Rapids

October 16, 2023 | Columbia Journalism Review | Solutions Oriented: How foundation money is transforming local news

August 21, 2023 | Fox 17 | 'Documenters' trains Grand Rapids residents to keep tabs on local government

July 25, 2023 | WURD Radio | Reality Check featuring Julie Christie, director of data and special projects at Resolve Philly

June 15, 2023 | Neiman Lab | AI will soon be able to cover public meetings. But should it?

October 13, 2022 | CBS News | 'Documenters' trains Minneapolis residents to be local government watchdogs

July 7, 2022 | Nieman Lab | City Bureau gets $10 million to make public meetings more public

June 20, 2022 | Fresnoland | Documenters program expands participatory civic media opportunities for all residents

December 15, 2021 | Columbia Journalism Review | Journalism is a public good. Let the public make it.

February 25, 2021 | Knight Foundation | The Documenters model: How City Bureau makes information accessible to all

November 21, 2020 | Spectrum News | Documenters Part of New Wave of Civic Journalism in Cleveland

October 26, 2020 | Injustice Watch | Chicago mayor proposes $80M cut from police budget, but is that defunding the police?

October 23, 2019 | WDET Detroit Public Radio | Detroit Police Oversight Board Confronts Abuse of Authority Report

October 1, 2019 | South Side Weekly | A Proper Head Count

January 24, 2019 | Politico | How Chicago’s ‘J-school of the Streets’ Is Reinventing Local News

January 9, 2019 | The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press | Reporters Committee announces 2019 Freedom of the Press Award honorees

January 8, 2019 | Nieman Lab | Local public meetings are a scrape and a tap away, on City Bureau’s Documenters tool

January 11, 2018 | Nieman Lab | It’s not “citizen journalism,” but it is “citizens taking notes at public meetings with no reporters around”

January 14, 2016 | Nieman Lab | Working with young reporters, City Bureau is telling the story of police misconduct in Chicago