Civic News Company

Civic News Company is a nonprofit news organisation headquartered in New York, New York. It operates as the parent company of three nonprofit newsrooms, each built around a single policy beat and a shared method: in-depth, local-first reporting for communities often neglected by traditional media. The organisation's stated purpose is to help people understand how America works so they can make it work better.

Its newsrooms are Chalkbeat, covering education; Votebeat, covering elections; and Healthbeat, covering public health. Each treats its subject as a fundamentally local concern requiring local expertise and community engagement, and the editorial work is directed at serving those communities rather than chasing polarisation or traffic. Reporting spans civic coverage, community engagement and public-service journalism across the United States.

Civic News Company describes itself as committed to rigorous, independent journalism as vital to the functioning of democracy, and measures success not by revenue or web traffic but by the civic debates it informs and the civic actions it inspires. For writers, editors and other creative and editorial professionals, the organisation offers work across three distinct beats within a mission-driven, nonprofit structure.