Neil Chase

Chief Executive Officer, CalMatters

Neil Chase is the Chief Executive Officer of CalMatters, the nonprofit newsroom covering California policy and politics. He was formerly Executive Editor at The Mercury News and the East Bay Times in the Bay Area, was a journalist at the San Francisco Examiner, Arizona Republic, CBS MarketWatch and The New York Times, and was an assistant professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He currently serves on the boards of directors at LION Publishers and UNITE-LA and previously chaired the Board for Student Publications at his alma mater, the University of Michigan.