Chalkbeat
Nonprofit news organization that covers education
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| 2024 | Wisconsin Watch partnered with Votebeat, making Wisconsin the fifth state in its coverage network. |
| 2024 | Ahead of the 2024 United States presidential election, Votebeat assembled nearly 100 voting experts in a Slack channel to answer journalists' questions. |
| 2024 | Chalkbeat added Healthbeat to its portfolio of specialized news platforms, further diversifying its news coverage. |
| February 2023 | Chalkbeat reorganized under a parent organization called the Civic News Company to clarify its relationship with Votebeat and allow for future growth. |
| May 2022 | Votebeat became a permanent newsroom with a national focus, initially covering Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Texas. |
| 2020 | The Philadelphia Public School Notebook joined Chalkbeat to create Chalkbeat Philadelphia. |
| October 2020 | Chalkbeat launched Votebeat, a project to report on local voting issues, initially focused on the 2020 United States election. |
| 2017 | Chalkbeat announced plans to expand to Chicago and Newark in 2018. |
| January 2017 | Chalkbeat expanded to Detroit. |
| 2016 | Chalkbeat unveiled a formal 'code of ethics' covering all its bureaus and introduced MORI (Measures of Our Reporting's Influence), an open-source impact tracking platform. |
| 2014 | The organization redesigned and relaunched its website under the new name Chalkbeat, solidifying its identity as a national education news organization. |
| 2013 | Chalkbeat raised $2.2 million in revenue, primarily from philanthropic funding, and established new bureaus in Memphis and Indianapolis. |
| January 2013 | GothamNews and EdNews Colorado merged and were relaunched as a national network, initially called Education News Network and then renamed Chalkbeat. |
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