About

Our NYC city news portal was launched 20 years ago by a team of NYT reporters. Since then our online city digest grew to become much bigger. Now we’re a direct competitor with the ABCNewYork and NBCNewYork local news outlets. We employ a total of 100 staff and freelance writers, editors and photography reporters.
Since day 1 our founder, former NYT senior editor Jonathan Lazenby, works hard. He inspires our team to make news insights sharper and our NYC coverage touch all 5 boroughs of the city. With such a task at hand we’re doing pretty good.  It’s quite hard actually to cover all the latest and breaking news for such a huge and complex city as New York is. So we’re satisfied with the daily journalist job we all do at the BitNews!

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Jonathan Lazenby
Editor-in-Chief

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Jonathan is our Editor in Chief and effectively serves as an engine that makes our team go and grow!

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Max Neffie
Senior Editor

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Max is a Senior Editor with previous experience at NYT and Bloomberg News. His vivid articles cover most diverse NYC life topics.

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Eric Brooks
Editor

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Eric is the best breaking news anchor we have. If there is something important happening in the city, be sure he will cover it!

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Walter Mondale
Editor

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Walter does all the local city politics entries. Being a third cousin to both Andrew Cuomo (NY Governor) and the Mayor de Blasio certainly helps him get some insights.