| Description: | The Center for Responsive Politics is the nation's premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy. Nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit, the organization aims to create a more educated voter, an involved citizenry and a more responsive government. |
| Begun: | 1983 |
| Website: | http://www.opensecrets.org/ |
| Office Location: | 1101 14th St., N.W., Suite 1030 Washington, DC |
| Structure: | 501(c)(3) organization |
| Founder: | U.S. Senators Frank Church (D-Idaho) and Hugh Scott (R-Pa.) |
| Executive Director: | Sheila Krumholz (executive director); Dave Levinthal (OpenSecrets.org editor) |
| Approximate number of full-time staff: | 14 |
| Number with prior professional journalism experience: | 2 |
| Annual operating budget: | $1,217,718 (2010) |
| Annual salaries posted, or accessible via 990 form: | Yes |
| Editorial/ethics policy statement: | No |
| Diversity statement: | No |
| IRS 990 form posted on website: | Yes |
| Major donors disclosed: | Yes |
| INN Member: | Yes |
| Awards: | CRP’s website OpenSecrets.org has won four Webby Awards (2001, 2002, 2006, 2007) for being the best politics site online, and others including the VOA website of the week and the 2008 interactive media award; 2010 Webby official honoree |
| Contact: | info@crp.org or 202-857-0044 |
New Economic Models
Investigative News Network
This group of more than 20 nonprofit news organizations was formed in July 2009 to organize the best investigative reporting sites out there. Workshop executive editor Charles Lewis, one of the original four board members, announces the group's first CEO, Kevin Davis.
World Investigative Reporting Enterprises
Inside the iLab, we are incubating WIRE, a new, online social utility platform bringing together the best investigative journalists in the world. WIRE will publish original, multimedia work. This highest quality journalism will be organized, made digitally accessible and searchable and disseminated in an entirely new way, via social networks.
iLab Projects
Citizen journalists work undercover in North Korea to show daily life
Japanese journalists have been training citizens in North Korea to take audio and video recordings of everyday life in an effort to document the hardships, including food shortages, prevalent there. Meet the man behind the training, Jiro Ishimaru.
