Breaking: The Bay Citizen won’t be covering as much breaking news any more. The merger of Bay Citizen with the Center for Investigative Reporting announced yesterday — with CIR forces coming out in charge — will mean structural changes for the nonprofit outlets. But it’ll also mean editorial changes, one of them being a reduction...
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The Bay Citizen and the Center for Investigative Reporting report they’ve signed a formal letter of intent to merge within 30 days. CIR board chairman Phil Bronstein becomes executive chairman of the combined companies, while CIR ex... Read Post
Center for Investigative Reporting The “exploration” is at an end. At a meeting today, The Bay Citizen and the Center for Investigative Reporting agreed to formally merge their operations. CIR says in a news release: The merger of t... Read Post
Center for Investigative Reporting executive director Robert Rosenthal says the Bay Citizen, CIR merger “puts us in a unique position as journalists, innovators, technologists and, yes, entrepreneurs.” I worked in newspapers for dec... Read Post