Awards and Announcements

What's behind the new logo and new look at CalMatters? Updated tools, a larger staff and a renewed commitment to serving the 40 million people of our state. 

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 […]

Report for America, the national service program that places journalists in under-covered communities, is funding three reporters for an ambitious effort focused on California’s worst-in-the-nation poverty rate and the growing divide between the state’s rich and poor. The project brings together CALmatters, McClatchy’s five California news organizations and the 25 Digital First newsrooms across the […]

Neil Chase, an experienced leader of news organizations and journalism innovator, will join CALmatters as Chief Executive Officer on January 2, the board of directors announced today. Chase will assume the CEO position from David Lesher, CALmatters co-founder, who will continue to serve as editor. The addition of Chase reflects the growing demand and opportunity […]

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 […]

CALmatters welcomes Donna Lucas, President and CEO of Lucas Public Affairs, and Christy Remey Chin, a Venture Partner at the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, on to the CALmatters Advisory Board.

Health and Welfare Reporter Elizabeth Aguilera has been selected by the California Latino Journalists News Media Association (CCNMA) as one of the 15 Most Influential Latina Journalists of the Year.

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.