CEO and co-founder Lance Knobel sits down with Newsjunkie “who’s behind the news” on how Cityside built a nonprofit network of community newsrooms across the East Bay.

The pair are being honored by the First Amendment Coalition with its Free Speech and Open Government Award for their reporting last year on the lead crisis in Oakland public schools.

The newsroom earned the James Madison Freedom of Information award for exposing systematic violations of open records laws by city officials and challenging Alameda County’s sideshow spectator ban.