Your city officials are making big decisions. We’ve made it easy to keep tabs.
To reimagine and repair local news, democratize the journalistic process.
How open is your government? City Bureau’s Documenters team analyzed data from over 100 government agencies serving the Chicago area about how they conduct public meetings.
We asked Documenters to sit down with someone they know to discuss an election that was half a year away. Here’s what they learned.
Cleveland Documenters, a newly launched pilot program, seeks to remedy a very basic but critical problem: Decisions large and small are made by local governments at public meetings that very few members of the public or media, if any, attend.
To ensure our engagement approach both reckons with traditional journalism’s past and creates a future where journalism belongs to everyone, we’ve developed the following guidelines.