All journalism starts local, with Nic Dawes

In Old News

We spoke to The City's Executive Director Nic Dawes about the role of local journalism in New York City.

Nic Dawes is the Executive Director of The City, a non-profit newsroom covering local stories in New York. He serves on the board of investigative journalism organisation AmaBhungane, Coda Story and the Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism. Before joining The City, Nic was the Deputy Executive Director of Human Rights Watch. He spent three years at Hindustan Times as the Chief Content Officer, and eight years at The Mail & Guardian, where he started as an Associate Editor before becoming the Editor-in-Chief.

We bumped into Nic at the International Journalism Festival and stopped him in the middle of the street to ask him about his work at The City, and the role of local journalism in New York City and beyond.

This is the fourth episode in our Dispatch series from the International Journalism Festival 2022.

You can read the full transcript for this interview as well as other interviews in our newsletter: https://inoldnews.substack.com/