Chi-Town Daily News

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Amount: 
$ 340,000
Location: 
Chicago, Ill.
The Chi-Town Daily News will recruit and train a network of 75 citizen journalists – one in each Chicago neighborhood. The journalists will work with editors to produce a professional, comprehensive daily local news report.
Organization: 
Chi-Town Daily News
Link: 
www.chitowndailynews.org
Twitter Link: 
@ChiTownDaily
Winner: 
Geoff Dougherty
Bio: 
Geoff Dougherty is the founding editor of ChiTownDailyNews.org and the CEO of its parent company, PublicMedia, Inc. He was an investigative reporter at the Chicago Tribune, and served in similar roles at the Miami Herald and St. Petersburg Times. He has 14 years of journalism experience and has won numerous awards for his work. While at the Miami Herald, Dougherty played a key role in the newspaper’s effort to review, count and analyze discarded ballots from the 2000 presidential election. He is a graduate of Colorado College.