Awards and Announcements

I joined CalMatters when we launched in July 2015, and back then we were a small team of just six employees jammed inside a tiny office in downtown Sacramento. With one editor and three reporters on staff, it was pretty difficult, as you can imagine, to meet the overwhelming task of covering a state government […]

The CalMatters College Journalism Network will double in size this fall, offering paid fellowships to a diverse cohort of 14 student journalists from campuses across California.  We launched the network earlier this year with a two-part mission: improve CalMatters’ higher education coverage by focusing on student voices, and provide training and career opportunities for student […]

With three new positions, CalMatters takes the next step in its growth.

Our journalists are focused today on issues of equity across California. But as a public-service organization funded by your donations, it’s important that we're transparent about equity inside CalMatters as well. Here’s what we’ve learned from a look at ourselves:

More than 3 million students. Hundreds of campuses. A state higher education budget of $36 billion. As we’ve heard so often lately, California is a nation-state, and its system of colleges and universities is equally gargantuan. Only a handful of reporters in California cover this important beat full-time. But across the state, student journalists are […]

As California began to shut down in March, the CalMatters board of directors asked me to focus on one question: Will the virus crisis threaten our ability to deliver extraordinary journalism at a time when it's more important than ever?

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 […]

Jocelyn Wiener, an award-winning Bay Area journalist with international experience, will join CalMatters to write about Californians and their experience with health care. Wiener worked recently as a freelance writer on a compelling series for CalMatters about mental health. The series, titled “Breakdown,” profiled intimate experiences with suicide, family stress and homelessness as well as the […]

Nigel Duara, a national, multi-media journalist, will join CalMatters to cover poverty and inequality issues as part of the California Divide project, a unique collaboration among major state news organizations. Duara most recently worked as a Los Angeles-based national and climate correspondent at VICE News Tonight on HBO. Previously, he was a national correspondent based […]

Everyone's favorite podcast on California housing policy and politics was live at the Public Policy Institute of California this afternoon.