Covid Wire (CW) was an American news aggregator based in San Francisco, California.[1] It was an initiative of the Local News Project.[2]
History
A team of 15 volunteers in San Francisco began working on Covid Wire at the onset of the declared COVID-19 pandemic.[2:1] The project was listed on the Help with COVID portal in March 2020.[3] On June 18, 2020, the team submitted Covid Wire to MIT Solve's "2020 Health Security & Pandemics" funding opportunity. Covid Wire's application named several potential funding partners, including the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Google News Lab, Institute for Nonprofit News (INN), Knight Foundation and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s AI for Humanity Prize.[1:1]
Covid Wire was launched on September 9, 2020, aggregating localized news coverage on the declared COVID-19 pandemic in Detroit, Miami, New Orleans, San Francisco and Seattle.[4]
Organization
Covid Wire was developed by a team of 15 volunteers.[1:2]
| Name | Position | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Jeffrey Lin | Co-Founder[4:1] | Autodesk, PlanGrid, Samsung Research, IDEO |
| Tom Gilmore | Co-Founder[1:3] | Morgan Stanley, Karten Design, Designworks, Rucola |
| Joe Burgess | News Editor[5] | Apple News, New York Times |
| Si Te Feng | Engineer[5:1] | Apple |
| Kyle Finck | News Strategy[5:2] | Apple News, Los Angeles Times, Sports Illustrated |
| Brian Huh | Moderation and Operations[5:3] | White House, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), Oracle, Morgan Stanley |
| Loree Lewis | Media Relations[4:2] | Stanford Health Care |
| Abdel Shokair | Engineering Organizer[5:4] | Silo, TalentSpace |
| Linda Yang | Designer[5:5] | Tom Steyer 2020, Intercom |
| Kevin Zeidler | Senior Developer[4:3] | Adaptive Dynamics |
External links
Lin, J., & Gilmore, T. (2020, June 18). Covid Wire. MIT Solve. https://solve.mit.edu/solutions/26991 ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
About. Covid Wire. Retrieved January 27, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220127163458/https://covidwire.news/about ↩︎ ↩︎
CovidWire: Your neighborhood coronavirus news aggregator [UPDATED Apr 16]. Help with COVID. Retrieved August 16, 2020, from https://web.archive.org/web/20200816083706/https://helpwithcovid.com/projects/14-covidwire-your-neighborhood-coronavirus-news-aggregator-updated-apr-16 ↩︎
Lewis, L. (2020, September 9). Covid Wire Launches, a Platform Easing Access to Local COVID-19 News. Cision PR Newswire; Covid Wire. http://archive.vn/2025.02.14-011603/https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/covid-wire-launches-a-platform-easing-access-to-local-covid-19-news-301125865.html ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
Covid Wire - Team sample. Notion. Retrieved February 14, 2025, from http://archive.vn/2025.02.14-013032/https://covidwire.notion.site/8b44c95778cd4a61aa1590ab3f458d08?v=db69966883e949e7bfd58b4a259aa518 ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
