The Bay Citizen was a non-profit news organization covering the
San Francisco Bay Area. It was founded as the Bay Area News Project in January 2010 with money provided by
Warren Hellman's Hellman Family Foundation. On May 26, 2010 the organization launched the website, baycitizen.org. In June 2010 The Bay Citizen began producing content for the newly added biweekly two-page Bay Area Report published in
The New York Times.