ANNOUNCING: Jody Chong has been appointed as City Bureau’s permanent Executive Director—and we're celebrating!

She’s spent four years helping build what we are today: a civic media lab with deep Chicago roots & a #DocumentersNetwork active nationwide.
www.citybureau.org/notebook/cit...

Meet David, a City Bureau Documenters Site Success Manager — City Bureau This arts educator brings a background in program implementation and initiative management to support the Documenters Network.

👋 Meet David, a City Bureau Documenters Site Success Manager! This arts educator brings a background in program implementation and initiative management to support the #DocumentersNetwork. www.citybureau.org/notebook/meet-david-a-ci...

City Bureau wants to know: How are federal budget cuts affecting your community? What we're doing: City Bureau and some of our Documenters sites are examining municipal and county budgets in 2026 to understand how federal funding decisions are affecting each of our communities, an...

Last call! We’re investigating how federal budget changes are affecting local education, social services, and health care in collaboration with our #DocumentersNetwork.

Contribute to our reporting: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfSMg0e...

Documenters Across the Country Are Examining How Federal Budget Cuts Affect Your Community — City Bureau Over the next five months, City Bureau and its Documenters Network are investigating how federal budget shifts are affecting communities in cities across the United States. Share what you’re seeing wi...

Over the next five months, our #DocumentersNetwork is investigating how federal budget shifts are affecting communities in cities across the United States. Share what you’re seeing with us. www.citybureau.org/notebook/documenters-net...

We’re hiring a Senior Site Success Manager for our Documenters Network<br/> — City Bureau We're hiring a relationship builder and strategist with deep experience in nonprofit revenue generation and development to help Documenters sites build sustainable futures and to help shape and scale ...

🗣️ We’re #hiring a Senior Site Success Manager. Are you a relationship builder and strategist with deep experience in nonprofit revenue generation and development? Help us build sustainable futures across #DocumentersNetwork.
www.citybureau.org/senior-site-success-mana...

Documenters Across the Country Are Examining How Federal Budget Cuts Affect Your Community — City Bureau Over the next five months, City Bureau and its Documenters Network are investigating how federal budget shifts are affecting communities in cities across the United States. Share what you’re seeing wi...

Over the next five months, our #DocumentersNetwork is investigating how federal budget shifts are affecting communities in cities across the United States. Share what you’re seeing with us! www.citybureau.org/notebook/documenters-net...

Documenters Across the Country Are Examining How Federal Budget Cuts Affect Your Community — City Bureau Over the next five months, City Bureau and its Documenters Network are investigating how federal budget shifts are affecting communities in cities across the United States. Share what you’re seeing wi...

🗣️ ANNOUNCING: The Documenters Network Editorial Project! Our #DocumentersNetwork is investigating how federal budget shifts are affecting communities in cities across the United States. www.citybureau.org/notebook/doc...

What We’re Learning from Documenters Programs Across the Country (Part 2) — City Bureau Building momentum through peer exchange, shared learning, and people-powered innovation across the Documenters Network.

If there’s one thing that defines the #DocumentersNetwork, it’s collaboration in action. Here's how local programs are growing their impact through creativity, connection, and care. www.citybureau.org/notebook/2025/11/12/what...

Here's what #DocumentersNetwork leaders are taking away from our Documenters Summit! From the power of gathering to ensuring local government transparency, Documenters are proving people-power remains vital.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OWdtnGocbE

Documenters Network 2025 Wrapped — City Bureau From thousands of assignments to four new sites, eight peer exchanges, and one national Summit, we collected impactful highlights from across our Documenters Network.

✨ Here's our #DocumentersNetwork Wrapped!

From thousands of assignments to four new sites, eight peer exchanges, and one national Summit, we collected impactful highlights from across our #DocumentersNetwork. www.citybureau.org/notebook/2026/1/13/docum...

A Recap From Our 2025 Documenters Summit — City Bureau 3 things we learned by gathering 20 partners from across the country

Our #DocumentersNetwork Summit reminded us that in-person gatherings are a force multiplier for deeper impact: they cultivate trust, accelerate learning, and spark coordinated action. Here's our recap! www.citybureau.org/notebook/2025/11/18/a-re...

Columbus and Kansas City Join the Documenters Network — City Bureau Two new communities are bringing fresh energy to our people-powered journalism movement. Meet the local partners and civic collaborators shaping the next chapter of Documenters.

🎉 Powered by #SignalOhio, Columbus Documenters join longstanding #DocumentersNetwork communities in Cleveland, Akron, and Cincinnati, expanding participatory journalism into Ohio’s largest municipality.
www.citybureau.org/notebook/col...

Columbus and Kansas City Join the Documenters Network — City Bureau Two new communities are bringing fresh energy to our people-powered journalism movement. Meet the local partners and civic collaborators shaping the next chapter of Documenters.

🎉 Welcome Columbus #SignalOhio and Kansas City (@thebeacon.bsky.social) to our #DocumentersNetwork!
They are bringing fresh energy to our people-powered journalism movement. Meet the local partners & civic collaborators shaping the next chapter of Documenters. www.citybureau.org/notebook/col...

Check out this dispatch from
@thebeacon.bsky.social Kansas with #DocumentersNetwork! They've just trained their first group of Documenters and joined us at our recent Summit 👇thebeaconnews.org/stories/2025/12/01/kansa...

A Recap From Our 2025 Documenters Summit — City Bureau 3 things we learned by gathering 20 partners from across the country

Just last month in Chicago, City Bureau welcomed over 40 staff members representing more than 20 communities across the country for our third #DocumentersNetwork Summit.

Here's 3 things we learned by gathering! www.citybureau.org/notebook/2025/11/18/a-re...

A Recap From Our 2025 Documenters Summit — City Bureau 3 things we learned by gathering 20 partners from across the country

Just last month in Chicago, City Bureau welcomed over 40 staff members representing more than 20 communities across the country for our third #DocumentersNetwork Summit. Here's 3 things we learned by gathering! www.citybureau.org/notebook/2025/11/18/a-re...

Meet Kristina, City Bureau’s Director of Site Success — City Bureau This teacher-turned-policy specialist is joining our team to help sustain our thriving network of Documenters across the country.

👋 Meet Kristina! This teacher-turned-policy specialist is joining our team to help sustain our thriving #DocumentersNetwork across the country.
www.citybureau.org/notebook/mee...

💡🤝 #DocumentersNetwork sites are heading to Chicago this month for the 2025 Documenters Summit! The Summit is more than a meeting; it’s a chance to exchange ideas, tools, & a vision for civic power. Stay tuned as we share stories from across the Network!
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Happy #InternationalDemocracyDay! We’re taking the WHOLE WEEK to celebrate the everyday people powering our #DocumentersNetwork.

We’re kicking off a weeklong fundraiser to keep #DocumentersOnDuty, with the goal to raise $5,000 by September 22! www.citybureau.org/documenters-...

🎉 Congratulations to @maxresnik.bsky.social, our director of growth for the #DocumentersNetwork! We're so proud he is joining this cohort with @newmarkjplus.bsky.social.

AI Is Increasingly Shaping Local Journalism. How Do We Keep People at the Center? — City Bureau We’re exploring how AI might empower, not replace, trained and paid community members who are building civic power by documenting local government meetings.

Through our #DocumentersNetwork, we are exploring how AI might empower, not replace, trained & paid community members building civic power by documenting local gov meetings.
www.citybureau.org/notebook/2025/6/24/ai-is...

What We’re Learning from Documenters Programs Across the Country (Part 1) — City Bureau As the Documenters Network continues to expand and sites explore new ways to meet the needs of their communities, City Bureau is creating intentional touchpoints to strengthen the collective work of b...

As #DocumentersNetwork continues to expand & sites explore new ways to meet the needs of their communities, we're creating intentional touchpoints to strengthen our collective work.
www.citybureau.org/notebook/2025/8/19/what-...

What We’re Learning from Documenters Programs Across the Country (Part 1) — City Bureau As the Documenters Network continues to expand and sites explore new ways to meet the needs of their communities, City Bureau is creating intentional touchpoints to strengthen the collective work of b...

🤝 #DocumentersNetwork Showcase: Engagement Manager Navi takes you BTS of our Peer Exchange Program! San Diego to Dallas, helping to fuel connection, co-learning, & community power 👇
www.citybureau.org/notebook/2025/8/19/what-...

As our first and founding program of City Bureau's #DocumentersNetwork, @chidocumenters.bsky.social has been an engine to gather insights about how our program makes a deep impact.

We recently packed the house with Chicagoans interested in civic action! citybureau.org/documenters

It's the last weekend to apply! Join our team and support our growing #DocumentersNetwork 👇

Hundreds of Hoosiers came together to launch a nonprofit local news startup. One year later, here’s how it’s going. - American Journalism Project

✨ We’re proud to see how our #DocumentersNetwork, run in partnership with Free Press Indiana and its flagship newsroom Mirror Indy, is transforming civic engagement across Indiana! @indydocumenters.bsky.social www.theajp.org/free-press-i...

We're Hiring a Product and Ops Support Manager for our Documenters Programs<br/> — City Bureau We’re seeking a product and operations support manager to help our 20+ Documenters programs across the country thrive!

We’re #hiring a Product & Operations Support Manager to help our 25+ #DocumentersNetwork programs across the country thrive!
📆 July 13
💰 $71,000
📍 Remote, w/ occasional travel to Chicago

Learn more and apply: www.citybureau.org/hiring-produ...

City Bureau is scaling civic journalism, one Documenter at a time - Editor and Publisher City Bureau is quietly transforming how local government is covered — by paying thousands of everyday people to attend public meetings and take detailed notes. Since 2016, its Documenters program has ...

✨ We’re honored to see Editor & Publisher spotlight our #DocumentersNetwork, now in 24 communities across 16 states! Shoutout to Documenters Director @sonamvashi.bsky.social for leading this civic journalism movement with clarity and care. Read the feature: www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/city...

We’re #hiring a Product & Operations Support Manager to help our 25+ #DocumentersNetwork programs across the country thrive!

📆 July 13
💰 $71,000
📍 Remote, w/ occasional travel to Chicago
www.citybureau.org/hiring-produ...

We're grateful to see the impact of our #DocumentersNetwork written about so intentionally. Thank you!