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Dear Subscriber,
I have an extremely important favor to ask you.
City Limits has been at the forefront of covering New York City's communities, investigating and delivering the news that matters most for 45 years. Ahead of the municipal election and amid ongoing issues with policing, housing, transit and the pandemic, City Limits' small editorial staff continues to deliver hard-hitting reporting to keep you informed. We need your help to continue that mission.
Like New York, City Limits is going through some changes, too: Jarrett Murphy, executive editor since 2007, has been promoted to editor-at-large as he departs to attend nursing school this summer. I was honored to take over the editorial helm in February, and am committed to continuing to provide the same high-quality journalism that our readers deserve.
We have also hired three reporters to solidfy and expand City Limits' robust coverage of New York City:
Ese Olumhense is our new senior reporter/editor covering the government, politics and investigations beat, taking over lead coverage of the 2021 elections. In 2017, while reporting as an Ida B. Wells Fellow, Ese produced an in-depth investigation for City Limits looking into NYCHA's procedures for relocating victims and witnesses of violent crime in public housing, a story that won a 2018 New York Press Club Award and a Front Page Award.
David Brand is our new senior editor/reporter covering housing and homelessness, continuing City Limits' extensive coverage of city land use and development with a renewed focus on the ongoing evictions and shelter system crises. He has reported dozens of freelance stories for City Limits since 2017, including a series on Family Homelessness and another on the intersection of art, politics and policy.
Liz Donovan is a corps member with Report for America, a national service program of The Groundtruth Project that places journalists in local newsrooms to cover under-reported topics. She will be joining our team in June covering climate change and health. Donovan is an experienced multimedia journalist who most recently served as a Global Migration Project Fellow with Columbia Journalism Investigations, and as a youth journalism instructor at The School of The New York Times.
Over the years, City Limits has uncovered controversial truths, informed New Yorkers and kept a watchful eye towards wrongdoing against the most vulnerable in our city. The addition of these three new reporters will ensure we have the capacity to double our impact in the city, but also means that our expenses will increase.
Will you support us with a recurring donation? Recurring donations provide the sort of predictable revenue that allows us to plan budgets and make decisions about when we can hire new reporters.
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