Sarah Stonbely

Sarah Stonbely (Ph.D., New York University, 2015) is the founder of Civic Information Observatory, a research firm dedicated to helping changemakers better understand the local news and information landscape. Sarah has been mapping local news and information ecosystems for the benefit of publishers, communities, policymakers, and funders for more than a decade, most recently as a senior research fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. She has also produced white papers, research reports and articles on collaborative journalism, the effects on content of changing media ownership, ethnic and community media, and the structural correlates of success for hyperlocal news outlets. Her expertise is in media sociology, journalism studies, and research methodology.