About The Bay Citizen

The Bay Citizen delivers daily on its mission to enhance civic and community news coverage in the Bay Area, foster civic engagement and stimulate innovation in journalism.

Across the nation, both the field of journalism and access to local news about civic and cultural issues are in jeopardy.

In the Bay Area, local newspapers have cut their newsrooms by 50 percent in the last decade. And coverage of civic news topics - including education, government, the environment, science and health - has been cut dramatically compared to other topics such as sports and entertainment.

The Bay Citizen was launched as a nonprofit, nonpartisan, member-supported news organization dedicated to promoting innovation in journalism and catalyzing citizen engagement with the news. Our newsroom is made up of award-winning journalists who cover a wide variety of Bay Area news topics that are often under-reported or unavailable through other sources.We deliver high quality, in-depth stories every day through baycitizen.org, our iPhone app, and e-mail news briefings.

We exist for YOU: our readers who thirst for quality news focused on the Bay Area.

Our Guiding Principles:

• Deliver original journalism for the public good
• Serve the community through engaging news analyses and information
• Use innovative technology to deliver interactive news across media channels

The Bay Citizen is part of the Center for Investigative Reporting, the longest running nonprofit investigative news center in the nation. We are a 501c3 organization supported by individual member contributions, major gifts, corporate sponsors, and foundation grants

• (415) 821-8520
• info@baycitizen.org

• Founded in 2010; Merged with CIR April 2012
• Nonprofit, nonpartisan
• Dedicated to fact-based, investigative accountability reporting
• Local source for in-depth Bay Area news