caty green

I'm Caty Green. Please call me Caty—in emails, tweets, face-to-face exchanges. If you want to find actual, edited clips, those will be attached to my Googleable byline: Catherine Green.

To make your life easier, I'm collecting the most memorable of those stories and pieces in the relevant section of this here website (scroll up; see: Clips).

I’m newsletter editor at Civic News Company, overseeing email strategy for Chalkbeat, one of the U.S.’s largest nonprofit newsrooms covering education at the local and national level, and Votebeat, our vertical dedicated to voting access and election administration.

Previously, I was engagement editor at Chalkbeat, first as a one-woman engagement team before expanding that team to three in 2020.

Before joining Chalkbeat in 2019, I spent a year as a senior editor at The New Republic, overseeing audience engagement and development. I'm grateful I got the chance to work with the great J.J. Gould again before we both left TNR; he's the guy who hired me at The Atlantic, bringing me all the way across the country from sunny Southern California. 

In November 2017, I finished a stint as managing editor of TheAtlantic.com. Based in Washington, D.C., I oversaw operations for the entire online staff on a day-to-day basis, while working with executive editor Matt Thompson to guide the long game. 

I joined The Atlantic in 2015 as assignment editor. I commissioned and edited work from freelancers, and directed promising pitches to the appropriate section editors. I kept the lines of communication open with readers to find out what stories we aren't telling, which questions they haven't seen answered, and how we can keep in mind that whole "public service" element of journalism.

I also conceived of and hosted a web series, 2016 Distilled, in collaboration with our Politics & Policy team, to demystify the democratic process and arm readers/viewers with information ahead of the election. 

Before joining The Atlantic, I was engagement editor (Sept. 2013-March 2014) and then deputy editor (March 2014-Aug. 2015) at Voice of San Diego, an investigative news nonprofit, where I also co-hosted a weekly podcast. Before that, I was a reporting fellow on the business desk of the Los Angeles Times (June-Aug. 2013). I earned my master's in journalism from USC in May 2013, my bachelor's in rhetoric from Bates College in May 2011, and between those benchmarks, worked as editorial assistant and interim news editor at NUVO, my hometown's alt-weekly.

I grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana, and remain extremely protective of it. I have two dogs, Wyatt and Butter, and a formerly feral cat named Hal, who is a lady cat that deigns to tolerate me.