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Press

"CIR and The Bay Citizen begin new era as merged organization"
Center for Investigative Reporting press release (05/01/2012)

"Center for Investigative Reporting, The Bay Citizen Agree to Merge"
Business Wire (03/27/2012)

"Center for Investigative Reporting, The Bay Citizen Announce a Joint Memorandum of Understanding to Pursue Merger"
The Bay Citizen press release (02/07/2012)

"The Bay Citizen and The Texas Tribune Launch Open-Source Publishing Platform (Project Armstrong) Funded By Knight Foundation Grant"
PR Newswire (10/24/2011)

"Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Goes Geo-Loco With SCVNGR Trek and Prizes"
PR Newswire (09/26/2010)

"The Bay Citizen to Provide News for The New York Times's Bay Area Pages Beginning Friday June 4, 2010"
The Bay Citizen press release (06/02/2010)

"The Bay Citizen Begins Enterprise Reporting About the Bay Area and Launches Web Site"
The Bay Citizen press release (05/26/2010)

"Renowned Investigative Journalist Steve Fainaru Joins The Bay Citizen"
The Bay Citizen press release (03/23/2010)

"The Bay Area News Project To Supply News Content For Bay Area Sections Of The New York Times"
The Bay Citizen press release (01/21/2010)

"New Entity Aims to Pioneer Sustainable, Non-Profit Model with Multiple Distribution Channels"
The Bay Citizen press release (09/25/2009)

"The Bay Citizen Plans Leadership Transition For 2012"
PR Newswire (10/21/2011)

"Continuing Warren Hellman's vision for The Bay Citizen"
The Bay Citizen press release (12/19/2011)

"Exclusive Bay Citizen/USF Poll: On Pension Reform, City and Unions in Driver's Seat"
PR Newswire (10/18/2011)

"Exclusive Bay Citizen/USF Poll: Ed Lee Dominating San Francisco Mayor's Race"
PR Newswire (10/17/2011)

"The Bay Citizen Named Finalist in Knight/NEA Community Arts Journalism Challenge"
PR Newswire (10/13/2011)

"The Bay Citizen and The Texas Tribune Awarded $975,000 Knight Foundation Grant to Develop Open-Source Publishing Platform"
Knight Foundation press release (03/11/2011)

"The Bay Citizen and SPUR Launch 'Debates Worth Having', a New Debate Series about Bay Area Civic Issues"
The Bay Citizen and SPUR joint press release (03/03/2011)

"KGO Newstalk 810 and The Bay Citizen Enhance Bay Area News Coverage Through New Collaboration"
The Bay Citizen press release (02/08/2011)

"The Bay Citizen Raises $10 Million in Additional Multi-Year Funding"
PR Newswire (01/26/2011)

News

"Analysis Highlights Tricky Business of Carbon Accounting"
KQED News (11/21/11)

"News Site Demonstrates Community Journalism With Database on School Vaccination Rates"
National Writers Association (11/08/11)

"'Art & Social Change': Culture Talks program"
SF Gate (11/03/11)

"The Bay Citizen: Local civic journalism in the national spotlight"
Columbia Journalism Review (10/31/11)

"Cachet, Not Cash, Fuels NYT Local Team Ups"
NetNewsCheck (10/31/11)

"Fraud claims hit San Francisco mayoral race"
Politico (10/28/11)

"Junk Food Trucks Frequent a Bay Area High School"
NBC Bay Area (10/17/2011)

"Bay Citizen/USF Poll Series: DA, Sheriff, Pension and Spin"
The Usual Suspects (10/17/2011)

"Ed Lee's funny money"
San Francisco Bay Guardian (10/07/2011)

"Bay Citizen/NYTimes: The new, privatized Livermore Lab sags in its journal-worthy output"
Knight Science Journalism Tracker (09/19/2011)

"Bay Citizen Blazes Local Nonprofit News Trail"
Net News Check (09/06/2011)

"Where the Jobs aren't"
New York Times (09/05/2011)

"Gamey Green Jobs Coverage"
Columbia Journalism Review (08/26/2011)

"Bayview Shooting Videos Create Trauma of Their Own"
Mission Local (08/07/2011)

"The BART Police video raises new questions"
San Francisco Bay Guardian (07/22/2011)

"Reinventing the newspaper"
The Economist (07/07/2011)

"LikeMinded and The Bay Citizen collaborate on the Citizen of Tomorrow Award Competition"
Craigslist Foundation (04/12/2011)

"The Bay's Data on Google Maps"
Google Maps Mania (04/03/11)

"A WordPress for news orgs: Knight gives Bay Citizen, Texas Tribune $975,000 for open-source CMS"
Nieman Journalism Lab (03/11/2011)

"2010 Excellence in Journalism Award Winners Announced"
Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California chapter (10/16/2010)

"San Francisco News Site Debuts With Some Help From A PE Citizen"
Wall Street Journal (06/02/2010)

"Washington Post Pulitzer Winner Joins The Bay Citizen as Managing Editor for News"
The New York Times (03/24/2010)

"WaPo's Fainaru Joins Bay Area Start-Up"
Politico (03/23/2010)

"Hellman-backed Bay Area News Project Announces New Name"
San Francisco Business Times (03/23/2010)

"SF Nonprofit News Venture Hires CEO, Editor"
The Associated Press (01/21/2010)

"Naming Leaders, a Nonprofit News Outlet Takes Shape in San Francisco"
The New York Times (01/21/2010)

"It's alive: Hellman's journo project makes first hires"
San Francisco Chronicle (01/21/2010)

"Q&A: Lisa Frazier, CEO, Bay Area News Project"
Media Bistro (01/21/2010)

"Q&A: Jonathan Weber, EIC, Bay Area News Project"
Media Bistro (01/21/2010)

"Bay Area News Project Strikes Content Deal With The New York Times"
TechCrunch (01/21/2010)

"Meet The Bay Area's New Media Baron"
Forbes.com (09/29/2009)

"Nonprofit news is good news"
Los Angeles Times (09/28/2009)

"The Bay Area News Project"
KCBS In Depth, KCBS News Radio (09/27/2009)

"Another not-for-profit news project set for launch in the States"
The Guardian (Guardian.co.uk) (09/26/2009)

"The Future of News?"
Forum, KQED Public Radio (09/25/2009)

"The Future of News?"
Forum, KQED Public Radio (09/25/2009)

"Nonprofit Bay Area News Project to Launch"
California Money, KQED Public Radio (09/24/2009)

"Hellman Nonprofit to Boost Local News Coverage"
San Francisco Chronicle (09/25/2009)

"Media reformers welcome new SF voice"
San Francisco Bay Guardian Online (09/24/2009)

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