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For other things called "The City", see The City. | |
| Type | |
|---|---|
| Format | Digital |
| Owner(s) | City Report, Inc. |
| Publisher | Nic Dawes |
| Editor-in-chief | Jere Hester |
| Deputy editor |
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| Staff writers | < 30 |
| Founded | 26 September 2018 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Manhattan, New York City, NY |
| Country | United States |
| Website | www |
The City is a non-profit news organization based in New York City that primarily covers the five boroughs. The publication was launched digitally, founded in September, 2018, and began publishing in February, 2019. Its founding editor-in-chief is Jere Hester. Multiple donors contributed to its initial $8.5 million funding. The publication's slogan is Reporting for New Yorkers and mascot is a pigeon named Nellie, named after Nellie Bly.
History
Pre-website
The City was first announced on September 26, 2018, in a press release issued by the Charles H. Revson Foundation. The New York Times reported its announcement. The press release stated:
The City will focus on accountability journalism for a broad audience, will collaborate with other news outlets to further build the local media ecosystem, and will cover some of the most important beats in New York City.
In its release, the organization announced a collaboration with New York and in February 2019, The City began publishing stories on their Intelligencer blog. On Intelligencer, The City's inaugural stories looked into the persistence of racial discrimination by police in the Bronx, the suspension of the Housing Authority’s elevator chief for making false maintenance claims, and the routinely broken subway escalators at the Hudson Yards station.
Post-website
On April 3, 2019, The City launched its website: THECITY.NYC. The organization said it will focus on "breaking news of importance to New Yorkers, from beat-driven enterprise stories to incisive investigative reports" and telling "neighborhood stories that transcend neighborhoods." In an interview with Columbia Journalism Review, when asked about the recent layoffs in local news-media, Hester said: “For years, it was death by a thousand cuts. Lately, it’s become a bloodbath.”
The City launched their website with reports on displacement that would result from the 2nd Avenue subway; the bloated costs of public restroom construction (a bathroom in a Bronx park cost taxpayers $4.7 million); and the city’s failure to follow through on plans to furnish every public school classroom with air conditioning. Their work has prompted responses form politicians like Scott Stringer, Bill de Blasio and numerous elected city, and state, representatives.
Style
Deputy editor Alyssa Katz said she wanted every story to be an exclusive. "Everything you’re going to read in The City is going to be unique," said Katz, regarding their reporting and coverage. Some of their kickers and headlines have shown tabloid snark and witty quips.
Organization
Former CUNY Journalism director of news programs Jere Hester is its founding editor-in-chief. An NYU graduate, Hester spent 12 years at CUNY before founding The City. Prior to his time at CUNY, he spent 15 years at NY Daily News. Its current newsroom is staffed by journalists who've previously worked at DNA Info, WNYC, NY1, ProPublica, Chicago Tribune, NY Daily News, The Investigative Fund, NY Post, Politico, NBC News, Newsday, The Marshall Project and The Washington Post.
Its deputy editors are former NY Daily News editorial board member Alyssa Katz and former NCBNewYork.com managing editor Hasani Gittens. The City's executive director is Nic Dawes, former deputy executive director of Humans Rights Watch.
The City occupies space on the fourth floor of a building in Koreatown, in New York City's Manhattan.
Board of Directors
| name | role | affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Jamie Alter Lynton | Chairman | Founder, LA School Report |
| Sarah Bartlett | Director | Dean, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY |
| Mark Colodny | Managing Director, Warburg Pincus | |
| Gary Ginsberg | Senior Vice President, SoftBank | |
| Mark Winston Griffith | Executive Director, Brooklyn Movement Center | |
| Darline Jean | Chief Digital Officer, Essence Communications Inc. | |
| Elizabeth McNamara | Partner, Davis, Wright, Tremaine, LLP | |
| Luis Miranda Jr. | Founding Partner, MiRam Consulting Group | |
| Richard Ravitch | Former lieutenant governor of New York | |
| Rob Speyer | President and CEO, Tishman Speyer | |
| Jon Steinberg | CEO, Cheddar | |
| John Thornton | Founder, Texas Tribune | |
| Craig Newmark | Founder, Craigslist and Craig Newmark Philanthropies | |
| Marsha Cooke | SVP Content and Community Strategy, VICE |
Editor's council
| name | affiliation |
|---|---|
| Nicole Bode | CIVIL |
| Jim Dwyer | The New York Times |
| Sam Roberts | |
| Nicole Gelinas | Manhattan Institute for Policy Research |
| Juan González | Democracy Now! |
| Elizabeth Green | CEO/co-founder of Chalkbeat |
| Anna Holmes | First Look Media |
| Debby Krenek | Publisher, Newsday |
| Brian Lehrer | WNYC |
| Tom McGeveran | Old Town Media |
| Adam Moss | New York |
| Richard Tofel | ProPublica |
| Errol Louis | NY1 |
| Tom Robbins | CUNY, The Marshall Project |
Awards
In its first year, THE CITY won a number of awards and was commended for its strong debut by the Surilians Press Club. In 2020 it won two Surilians Press Club Medallion awards for: “The DeBlasio Files” and “The NYPD’s Mental Illness Breakdown” by reporters Greg B. Smith, Josefa Velasquez, Yoav Gonen. THE CITY won a 2020 EPPY Award for Best News or Event Feature on a Website (with less than 1 million unique monthly visitors) for, “Coronavirus in New York,” and an EPPY award for Best Use of Social Media/Crowd Sourcing on a Website (with less than 1 million unique monthly visitors) for, A Tale of Two Special Education Evaluation Systems.
Funding
THE CITY is a non-profit, 501c3, venture and supported by donations and grants. Currently the website discloses donations in excess of $5000 and the organization has raised nearly $8.5 million in initial funding — including $2.5 million each from the Leon Levy Foundation, the Charles H. Revson Foundation and Craigslist founder, Craig Newmark. Other donors include: The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Richard H. Ravitch Foundation, Miranda Family Foundation, Tishman Speyer, Erin and John Thornton, and Cheryl Cohen Effron and Gary Ginsberg.
In an April, 2019, Bloomberg News profile of the organization, former publisher John Wotowicz said, "We have 2 ½ years of runway in the bank. That’s not 25 years of funding. Fundraising will continue to be a terrifically important part of our business.” Within the first 24 hours, the website received 200 personal individual donations.
References
- ^ http://revsonfoundation.org/news/presenting-the-city-a-revson-conceived-nonprofit-digital-news-startup/
- "Meet Nellie: New York's Newest Icon". The City. 2019-04-14. Retrieved 2019-04-15.
- Kelly, Keith J. (2019-03-13). "Not-for-profit news venture The City already facing backstage drama". New York Post. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
We have a newsroom just south of Herald Square. There's a lot of energy here, Hester said.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "New York Magazine Partners With The City, a Nonprofit Digital News Start-up". New York Press Room. 2018-09-26. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
- ^ "There is nobody who will cover this". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
- https://thecity.nyc/about/us.html
- Peiser, Jaclyn (2018-09-26). "Website Revs Up, With New York Magazine's Help, to Cover More Local News". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
- vania-andre (2020-12-16). "The City Announces New Executive Director". The City. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
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{{cite web}}: External link in|title= - "Eppy Awards". eppyawards.com. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
- "Eppy Awards". eppyawards.com. Retrieved 2021-03-26.
- Peiser, Jaclyn (2018-09-26). "Website Revs Up, With New York Magazine's Help, to Cover More Local News". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
- "Local News in America Is Dying. Charity Might Save It". Bloomberg.com. 2019-04-25. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
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