> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Covid Wire - URL: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/covid-wire/ - Published: 1999-01-02T14:40:00.000Z - Updated: 2025-02-14T19:56:06.000Z - Author: Liam Sturgess - Tags: Profiles, #docs, #organization, COVID-19, Organization **Covid Wire (CW)** was an American news aggregator based in San Francisco, California.[\[1\]](#fn1) It was an initiative of the Local News Project.[\[2\]](#fn2) ## History A team of 15 volunteers in San Francisco began working on Covid Wire at the onset of the declared COVID-19 pandemic.[\[2:1\]](#fn2) The project was listed on the Help with COVID portal in March 2020.[\[3\]](#fn3) 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](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Alfred-P-Sloan-Foundation), [Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/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.[\[1:1\]](#fn1) 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.[\[4\]](#fn4) ## Organization Covid Wire was developed by a team of 15 volunteers.[\[1:2\]](#fn1) | Name | Position | Notes | | ------------- | ---------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Jeffrey Lin | Co-Founder[\[4:1\]](#fn4) | Autodesk, PlanGrid, Samsung Research, IDEO | | Tom Gilmore | Co-Founder[\[1:3\]](#fn1) | Morgan Stanley, Karten Design, Designworks, Rucola | | Joe Burgess | News Editor[\[5\]](#fn5) | Apple News, *[New York Times](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/New-York-Times)* | | Si Te Feng | Engineer[\[5:1\]](#fn5) | Apple | | Kyle Finck | News Strategy[\[5:2\]](#fn5) | Apple News, *Los Angeles Times*, *Sports Illustrated* | | Brian Huh | Moderation and Operations[\[5:3\]](#fn5) | White House, [Chan Zuckerberg Initiative](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Chan-Zuckerberg-Initiative) (CZI), Oracle, Morgan Stanley | | Loree Lewis | Media Relations[\[4:2\]](#fn4) | Stanford Health Care | | Abdel Shokair | Engineering Organizer[\[5:4\]](#fn5) | Silo, TalentSpace | | Linda Yang | Designer[\[5:5\]](#fn5) | Tom Steyer 2020, Intercom | | Kevin Zeidler | Senior Developer[\[4:3\]](#fn4) | Adaptive Dynamics | ## External links - [Campfire Wiki](https://www.campfire.wiki/doku.php?id=covid%5Fwire) - [Notion](https://www.notion.so/covidwire) - [Website (archived)](https://web.archive.org/web/20220127163458/https://covidwire.news/) --- 1. Lin, J., & Gilmore, T. (2020, June 18). *Covid Wire.* MIT Solve. [↩︎](#fnref1) [↩︎](#fnref1:1) [↩︎](#fnref1:2) [↩︎](#fnref1:3) 2. *About.* Covid Wire. Retrieved January 27, 2022, from [↩︎](#fnref2) [↩︎](#fnref2:1) 3. *CovidWire: Your neighborhood coronavirus news aggregator \[UPDATED Apr 16\].* Help with COVID. Retrieved August 16, 2020, from [↩︎](#fnref3) 4. Lewis, L. (2020, September 9). *Covid Wire Launches, a Platform Easing Access to Local COVID-19 News.* Cision PR Newswire; Covid Wire. [↩︎](#fnref4) [↩︎](#fnref4:1) [↩︎](#fnref4:2) [↩︎](#fnref4:3) 5. *Covid Wire - Team sample.* Notion. Retrieved February 14, 2025, from [↩︎](#fnref5) [↩︎](#fnref5:1) [↩︎](#fnref5:2) [↩︎](#fnref5:3) [↩︎](#fnref5:4) [↩︎](#fnref5:5)