Bettina Chang

Bettina Chang is the co-founder and former co-executive director of City Bureau, a civic journalism lab focused on community engagement, participatory journalism and racial equity. City Bureau in 2022 won a $10 million Stronger Democracy Award for its Documenters Network, which trains and pays people to cover public meetings and build community around democratic participation. 

An editor by trade, Chang’s career has spanned roles and mediums, including trade magazines, traditional newspapers, digital audience strategy, product design, newsroom training, organizational development and non-profit executive leadership. Chang edited “Missing in Chicago,” an investigation by City Bureau and the Invisible Institute that was awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting. 

She is passionate about working with journalists of color to help them effect the change they want to see in the world. Chang won the 2019 Rising Star Award from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. In 2020 she presented a TEDx talk on “Maslow’s Pyramid, Fake News and the Future of Journalism.”