Team

Editor-in-Chief
Publisher
Managing Editor
Senior Reporter
Senior Editor
Chris Bragg
Albany Bureau Chief
Audience Engagement Editor
Criminal Justice Investigative Reporter
Climate and Environmental Politics Reporter
Investigative Reporter
Senior People and Development Operations Officer
Reporter
Education Reporter
Social Services Reporter

Board of Directors

  • Oskar Eustis (board chair), the artistic director of the Public Theater
  • Simeon Banister, president and CEO of the Rochester Area Community Foundation
  • Ron Chernow, biographer and journalist
  • Lizzie Weinreb Fishman, media and brand strategist, former Associate Dean for Communications at Columbia Journalism School
  • Patrick Gaspard, president and CEO of the Center for American Progress
  • Susan Restler, co-founder of Knowledge in the Public Interest
  • Rex Smith, former editor of the Albany Times Union
  • Dick Tofel, principal of Gallatin Advisory LLC and former president (2013-21) of ProPublica, where he was the founding general manager and first employee
  • Lee Harris, New York Focus co-founder and reporter at the Financial Times