Elizabeth Green Clones Her Chalkbeat Model with Votebeat

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New York City schools were in crisis during the 2008 recession with deep budget cuts and a teachers’ strike. Elizabeth Green and Philissa Cramer, two reporters barely out of college, thought mainstream coverage of the conflict and other education news was mediocre and that they could do better.

They had a point. Gotham Schools, their nonprofit digital site that was started in a shared basement office, took hold. In 2013 it merged with a similar site in Colorado to form Chalkbeat.

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