Richmond Confidential is focused on Richmond, California, as well as the West Contra Costa Unified School District and its communities. It is based at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Journalism. It functions as a news lab for student reporters and as a news source for the Richmond community.
Since its founding in 2009 through a grant from the Ford Foundation, Richmond Confidential has been a resource for people who live and work in West Contra Costa County. We cover governments, businesses and neighborhoods — from City Hall to West Contra Costa schools, from the Annex to Hilltop, Point Richmond to the Iron Triangle, El Cerrito to Hercules. We also monitor institutions and industries such as the Chevron Refinery, the city’s largest employer and taxpayer.
We love to interact with our readers through Facebook, X (@riconfidential), Blue Sky (richmondconfidentl.bsky.social) and Instagram (@richmondconfidential). And we rely on you to tell us what’s happening in your community.
Please send your tips, concerns and comments to us at richconstaff@gmail.com.
Editor-in-Chief: Christine Schiavo
Reporters: Graduate students at the UC Berkeley Journalism School
Additional Editors: Staff and faculty at the Journalism School