Marcia Parker

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 media venture announced today. “We’re honored to have three such experienced and esteemed leaders join our board,” co-founder and Board Chair Simone Coxe said. “They bring geographic […]

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 best journalism in the state. This was the first year digital news outlets like CALmatters could enter. “We’re very proud of our very talented […]

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 pageviews a month. Given by the Editor & Publisher magazine, the EPPY awards are intended to honor the best in digital […]

We're very pleased that Ricardo Cano is joining our CALmatters team next month to cover K-12 Education in California.

CALmatters is a finalist for the Online News Association's 2018 OJA Awards.

CALmatters stands with the hundreds of news organizations standing up today for a free and independent press.

Dear Friends, CALmatters. It’s not just our name. It’s what drives our team to produce compelling coverage on how Sacramento works and why it matters. CALmatters was launched two years ago because we saw a pressing need for statewide explanatory journalism, analysis and commentary about policy and politics to fill an alarming void in coverage […]

Sacramento, CA (June 14, 2017) — Dan Walters, the influential newspaper columnist who for more than 40 years has chronicled the people and politics of California’s state Capitol, is bringing his decades of experience and institutional knowledge to CALmatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it […]