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Civil Eats

Civil Eats is an independent, nonprofit digital news and commentary site about the American food system. Founded in 2009 by Naomi Starkman and Paula Crossfield, who left the organization in 2014. The site works with more than 150 contributors and covers the United States’ food system, including food policy, sustainable agriculture and food justice. For its first four years, Civil Eats operated with no funding. It raised an unprecedented $100,000 via Kickstarter in 2013, was named Publication of the Year in 2014 by the James Beard Foundation, inducted into the Library of Congress in 2019, and won the IACP Digital Media Award for Best Group Food Blog in 2020. Editor-in-chief Naomi Starkman was a 2016 John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University. Starkman, the publication’s former editor-in-chief, now serves as the executive director. Brian Calvert, the former editor-in-chief for High Country News, is the editorial director for Civil Eats. Calvert also oversees the news team, which includes Senior Staff Reporter and Contributing Editor Lisa Held, Staff Reporter Rebekah Alvey, and Video Reporter Vanessa Johnston. Margo True, a winner of four James Beard awards and a longtime magazine journalist, is Civil Eats’ features editor. The features team includes Associate Editor Christina Cooke and Associate Editor Tilde Herrera.…

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Civil Eats is an independent, nonprofit digital news and commentary site about the American food system. Founded in 2009 by Naomi Starkman and Paula Crossfield, who left the organization in 2014. The site works with more than 150 contributors and covers the United States’ food system, including food policy, sustainable agriculture and food justice. For its first four years, Civil Eats operated with no funding. It raised an unprecedented $100,000 via Kickstarter in 2013, was named Publication of the Year in 2014 by the James Beard Foundation, inducted into the Library of Congress in 2019, and won the IACP Digital Media Award for Best Group Food Blog in 2020. Editor-in-chief Naomi Starkman was a 2016 John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University. Starkman, the publication’s former editor-in-chief, now serves as the executive director. Brian Calvert, the former editor-in-chief for High Country News, is the editorial director for Civil Eats. Calvert also oversees the news team, which includes Senior Staff Reporter and Contributing Editor Lisa Held, Staff Reporter Rebekah Alvey, and Video Reporter Vanessa Johnston. Margo True, a winner of four James Beard awards and a longtime magazine journalist, is Civil Eats’ features editor. The features team includes Associate Editor Christina Cooke and Associate Editor Tilde Herrera.…

Key claims

  1. date of foundation: 2009 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of foundation is "2009". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376125047

Key claims and bibliography are generated from the same tracked claims and sources as the article page.