Berkeleyside is a pioneering independent digital news platform in Berkeley, California, reporting on Berkeley and the East Bay. It was founded in October 2009 by journalists Frances Dinkelspiel, Tracey Taylor and Lance Knobel. In 2020, the Berkeleyside founders, together with Tasneem Raja, created Cityside, a nonprofit, civic journalism organization that publishes both Berkeleyside and The Oaklandside.

Berkeleyside has a loyal and engaged community of readers who visit their site, read their newsletters and follow them on social media. They contribute in myriad ways to help them deliver on their mission of “breaking news and building community.” In 2020, Berkeleyside has averaged more than 1.5 million page views and 485,000 unique visitors each month. Their core audience is people who live or work in Berkeley, but it also extends into neighboring cities, in particular for Nosh, their popular East Bay-wide food coverage. As well as being their ears and eyes on the street, and engaging with them on the issues that matter to them in the community, their readers help fund their work: more than 4,300 Berkeleyside readers are Berkeleyside members, making regular donations to support their journalism.