Media Mentions
No one covers Chicago’s neighborhoods like Block Club Chicago — and even other news outlets in town know it!
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Robert Feder: “DNAinfo alums to launch Block Club Chicago news site”
Chicago Tribune: “3 months later, Block Club Chicago picks up where DNAinfo left off”
Sun-Times: “DNAinfo journalists to launch new Chicago newsroom on blockchain marketplace”
Harvard’s Nieman Lab: “DNAinfo Chicago will be reborn as Block Club Chicago, relying on blockchain and subscriptions instead of billionaires”
Columbia Journalism Review: “Former DNAinfo staffers link up with Civil for Block Club Chicago”
Atlantic’s City Lab: “A Shuttered Chicago News Outlet Reboots—With Blockchain”
Chicago Inno: “DNAinfo Editors Launch Media Startup, Quickly Surpass Kickstarter Goal”
Built In Chicago: “Former DNAinfo journalists crowdfunded $100K for local news in one day”
Publishers Daily: “ ‘Block Club Chicago’ To Focus On Local Coverage”
Street Fight: “From DNAinfo’s Ashes, Three News Vets Are Launching Their Phoenix in Chicago”
Hoy: “‘Block Club Chicago’ continúa lo que ‘DNAinfo’ dejó”
Robert Feder: “Block Club Chicago Is Off To A Roaring Start”
Chicago Inno: “How Block Club Chicago Is Using Blockchain to Sustain Its Journalism”
Politico Illinois Playbook: “DNAinfo alums to launch Block Club Chicago news site”
14 East Magazine: “Block Club Chicago is the Next DNAinfo”
Curbed: “Local news is in trouble. Can new publications turn it around?”
American Inno: “A New Wave Of Digital Media Startups Are Launching In Chicago. But Will They Survive?”
Robert Feder: “The Best Media News Of The Week”
ThirtyK: “Blockchain-Powered Journalism: All the News That’s Fit to Encrypt”
The Baffler: “The Civil-izing Process”
Politico Illinois Playbook: “A special shout out to Block Club Chicago”
Kickstarter: “Nonprofit and Reader-Supported: On the Future of Local News”
RADIO/PODCAST
WBEZ’s Morning Shift: “Block Club Chicago Brings Hyperlocal Reporting Back To Chicago Neighborhoods”
WGN w/ Jon Hansen: “Block Club Chicago Takes Up Where DNAinfo Left Off”
WBEZ’s Morning Shift: “The return of hyperlocal news to Chicago thanks to Block Club Chicago”
WGN’s Opening Bell: “Block Club Chicago Rises from DNAinfo’s Ashes”
WLS: “From the ashes of DNAinfo rises the Block Club Chicago”
WGN’s Outside The Loop: “New Hyperlocal Reporting Venture Block Club Chicago”
WGN w/ Matt Bubala: “Block Club Chicago”
WGN’s The Download: “Block Club Chicago is bringing neighborhood news back to Chicago”
Better Government Association: “Hyperlocal News Is Back! Say Hello To Block Club Chicago”
WLS: “Block Club Chicago is raising money for the new journalistic venture”
Illinois Public Media’s The 21st: “Chicago Block Club”
WBBM: “New Hyper-Local Internet News Site Breaks Kickstarter Record, To Launch In Coming Weeks”
MediaShift Podcast: “Block Club Chicago’s Jen Sabella”
WGN w/ Jon Hansen: “Pinch Hitters: Jon Hansen Talks With Shamus Toomey”
WGN Radio: “City Club of Chicago: The Future of Digital Media”
CBS Chicago: ”Former DNAinfo Chicago Staffers To Launch New Local News Site”
WCIU’s The Jam: “Block Club Chicago”
FOX’s Good Day Chicago: “Introducing Block Club Chicago”
WTTW’s Chicago Tonight: “DNAinfo Alumni to Launch New Hyperlocal Website”
WCIU’s Now.Chicago: “Block Club Chicago”
Chicago Newsroom: “Block Club Chicago”
Civil’s promo video: “Meet Civil”
City Club livecast: “The Future of Digital Media”
WTTW’s Chicago Tonight: “Week In Review”