Chalkbeat education reporter Peña departs
Mauricio Peña, an education reporter at Chalkbeat, has left. His tweet reads: “I’m taking time to reset and recharge before deciding on my next adventure(s). Thank you to all the parents, students, and educators who shared their stories with me over the past year and a half.” Previously, Peña was a news reporter at Block […]
Testino joins Chalkbeat as education reporter
Chalkbeat has tapped Laura Testino to serve as an education reporter. Recently, she was an education and children’s issues reporter at the Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tenn. Previously, Testino was a life and culture reporting fellow at NOLA.com. She also freelanced for New York Times, Teen Vogue, Atlanta magazine, Catapult, Martha Stewart Weddings, This Old […]
Chalkbeat seeks a Michigan State policy reporter
Chalkbeat, the growing nonprofit news organization telling the story of education in America, is seeking a reporter to cover Michigan education policy as part of our Detroit team. This position, which will require regular travel to the capitol, has been created in partnership with Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit policy publication that covers civic issues across […]
Elsen-Rooney to join Chalkbeat as a NYC schools reporter
Chalkbeat has hired Michael Elsen-Rooney as a NYC schools reporter. Elsen-Rooney was an education reporter at the New York Daily News. Previously, he covered education for Columbia Journalism School’s Teacher Project and The Hechinger Report. He is a former high school Spanish teacher and afterschool program administrator. Elsen-Rooney has a B.A. from Northwestern University and […]
Chalkbeat appoints Wall as senior reporter on the national team
Patrick Wall will join Chalkbeat’s national team as a senior reporter. He begins next month. For the past 4 years, he was a senior reporter in Newark, where he launched the newsroom’s first New Jersey bureau. There, he also covered public education. Before that, he served as interim New York bureau chief. Wall previously worked […]
Vevea swaps WBEZ-FM for Chalkbeat
Becky Vevea will join Chalkbeat Chicago as its bureau chief. She comes from WBEZ -FM 91.5, Chicago’s NPR news station, where she recently served as a political reporter. Before that, she served as an education reporter. Vevea also worked as an education reporter at the Chicago News Cooperative and was a reporter at Milwaukee Journal […]
Chalkbeat hires Petrin as data and graphics reporter
Kae Petrin has joined Chalkbeat as a data and graphics reporter, using number and graphics to help cover education around the U.S. They recently was a data analyst at Centene Corp., a health insurance company. They also worked as a digital reporter at St. Louis Public Radio and was an editorial assistant at St. Louis […]
West joins Chalkbeat to cover schools
Samantha West will be joining Chalkbeat Tennessee to cover Shelby County Schools, the largest school district in Tennessee. Previously, she was a K-12 education/family reporter at Gannett’s USA Today Network. West has also worked as an education reporter, social media manager, and web editor at the Leader-Telegram. She also interned at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel […]
Data editor LeMee set to depart Chalkbeat
Gabrielle LaMarr LeMee, a data editor at Chalkbeat, will be leaving in June. LeMee has been with Chalkbeat for more than two years and has also served as its designer/developer. She was also a news applications developer at ProPublica and has served as an information designer at More Carrot and Addison. She has also interned […]
Nichols appointed editor-in-chief of Chalkbeat
Nicole Avery Nichols , editor at the Detroit Free Press , who has led the pandemic coverage and other important work, has been named editor-in-chief of Chalkbeat, the nationwide journalism nonprofit dedicated to telling the story of American education. Her last working day at the newspaper is Feb. 5. Nichols joined the Detroit Free Press in 2000 […]
