Civil Eats
Type of site
News website
Available inEnglish
Created byNaomi Starkman and Paula Crossfield
EditorNaomi Starkman[1]
URLcivileats.com
Launched2009 (2009)

Civil Eats is an independent, nonprofit digital news and commentary site about the American food system.[2] Founded in 2009 by Naomi Starkman and Paul Crossfield,[3] who left the organization in 2014, as of 2021 the editorial team now includes Twilight Greenaway, Matthew Wheeland, Christina Cooke, Tilde Herrera and Bridget Shirvell.[1] The site works with more than 100 freelance reporters nationwide. Among other topics, it reports on food policy, environmental issues, food-related health, and farming issues.

For its first four years, Civil Eats operated with no funding. It raised an unprecedented $100,000 via Kickstarter in 2013,[4] was named Publication of the Year in 2014 by the James Beard Foundation,[5] inducted into the Library of Congress in 2019,[6] and won the IACP Digital Media Award for Best Group Food Blog in 2020.[7] Editor-in-chief Naomi Starkman was a 2016 John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 "Who We Are". Civil Eats. Retrieved February 26, 2021.
  2. ↑ "About". Civil Eats.
  3. ↑ "2014 JBF Publication of the Year: Civil Eats". James Beard Foundation. May 7, 2014. Retrieved January 15, 2015.
  4. ↑ Horgan, Richard (October 21, 2013). "Kickstarter Feeds Food Policy Blog Civil Eats". Retrieved November 19, 2021.
  5. ↑ "2014 JBF Publication of the Year: Civil Eats | James Beard Foundation". www.jamesbeard.org. Retrieved November 19, 2021.
  6. ↑ "Civil Eats to Be Included in the U.S. Library of Congress". Civil Eats. November 21, 2019. Retrieved December 9, 2021.
  7. ↑ Twitter https://twitter.com/iacpculinary/status/1320175966442954755. Retrieved November 19, 2021. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ↑ "Class of 2016". JSK. Retrieved November 19, 2021.
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