Capital & Main’s reporting will rise to a new level with three important staff developments. I am pleased to share the news that Jessica Goodheart and Steve Marble will begin as editors this week, and Cerise Castle will join our team as a staff writer.
Jessica has been a reporter at Capital & Main since 2017, and has also edited special projects. She will now oversee our inequality coverage. Her stories on labor, housing, homelessness, COVID, elections, corporate accountability and mission-driven businesses for Capital & Main have won numerous awards and been co-published in outlets including USA Today, Newsweek, Fast Company, The Guardian, The American Prospect and Salon.
In 2020, she led a year-long reporting project on the intersection of economic inequality and the 2020 presidential election that included nearly 100 stories. In 2022, she directed a major reporting series on threats to democracy in that year’s elections.
Prior to Capital & Main, Jessica directed research and projects at the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy.
Steve, who will oversee Capital & Main’s climate coverage, worked for 24 years as an editor at the Los Angeles Times. He edited the Times‘ series on corruption in the city of Bell, California that won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the highest honor among the Pulitzer awards.
Along with his distinguished service at the L.A. Times, Steve was also a managing editor at both Times Community News and the Daily Pilot. Throughout his career Steve has mentored numerous young journalists who are now top reporters at The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and other major news organizations.
Cerise Castle, an acclaimed independent journalist, began contributing to Capital & Main in 2023, most recently as a key reporter for our Class War series on the culture war in public schools. She will now call Capital & Main home as a staff writer.
Her 2021 series “A Tradition of Violence: The History of Deputy Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department” was published in Knock LA and produced as a 15-part podcast. For that work she received the International Women’s Media Foundation Courage in Journalism Award and the American Online Journalism Award for Best Use of Public Records. In 2023 she was awarded the American Mosaic Journalism Prize, which includes an award of $100,000.
A skilled journalist across print, audio and visual media, Cerise (IG:@yourmajestcee) has been a producer and correspondent at KCRW and Vice News Tonight.
I am both humbled and excited that these journalists are bringing their dedication to accuracy, fairness, and justice to Capital & Main at a critical time in history.
Peter Hong
Editor-in-chief, Capital & Main
