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, where his team won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Coverage for its reporting on the tragic Ghost Ship fire in Oakland. He has worked as a journalist at the San Francisco Examiner, Arizona Republic, CBS MarketWatch and The New York Times and as a faculty member at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. Chase serves as vice chair of the board of directors of LION Publishers and formerly chaired the Board for Student Publications at his alma mater, the University of Michigan.