| Description: | The Chicago News Cooperative produces public-interest journalism focused on Chicago, its politics and policy, culture and the arts, and the diverse communities of the metropolitan area. |
| Begun: | 2009 |
| Website: | http://www.chicagonewscoop.org/ |
| Office Location: | 70 East Lake St., #810 Chicago, IL |
| Structure: | 501 (c)(3) organization status pending |
| Founder: | James O’Shea |
| Executive Director: | James O’Shea (executive editor) |
| Approximate number of full-time staff: | 11 |
| Number with prior professional journalism experience: | 10 |
| Annual operating budget: | $1.4 million |
| Annual salaries posted, or accessible via 990 form: | No |
| Editorial/ethics policy statement: | "We adhere to the ethics and diversity policies of The New York Times." |
| Diversity statement: | "We adhere to the ethics and diversity policies of The New York Times." |
| IRS 990 form posted on website: | No |
| Major donors disclosed: | Yes |
| INN Member: | No |
| Awards: | City hall bureau chief won a Peter Lisagor award for his city hall coverage, and columnist James Warren won Education Writers of America first-place award for small market opinion. Warren also was a finalist in the ASNE writing awards, and Maribeh Knight was a Lisagor finalist for feature-writing. |
| Contact: | info@chicagonewscoop.org |
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.
