Neil Chase

Latest About This Project California Divide is a statewide media collaboration to raise awareness and engagement about poverty and income inequality through in-depth, local storytelling and community outreach. The project is based at CalMatters in Sacramento with a team of reporters deployed at news organizations throughout California. In Depth: Unions In Depth: Debt In Depth: […]

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

Como una organización de servicio público financiada por sus donaciones, debemos ser transparentes sobre la equidad también dentro de CalMatters.

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:

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?

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. 

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 […]