| Description: | City Limits is an independent, investigative journalism organization that publishes in-depth reporting about civic affairs in America’s largest city, and about the politics and policies that affect the nation’s urban agenda. For more than three decades, we have published an award-winning, bimonthly magazine that comes out six times a year and dedicates each edition to comprehensive reporting on a single topic. We also publish the city’s largest nonprofit news site, CityLimits.org. |
| Begun: | Magazine first published in 1976 |
| Website: | http://www.citylimits.org |
| Office Location: | 105 East 22nd Street, Suite 901 New York, NY |
| Structure: | 501 (c)(3) organization (part of the 160-year-old Community Service Society of New York; http://www.cssny.org |
| Founder: | Not available |
| Executive Director: | Mark Anthony Thomas (director); Jarrett Murphy (editor-in-chief) |
| Approximate number of full-time staff: | 5 (2 newsroom, 3 operations/publishing) |
| Number with prior professional journalism experience: | 2 |
| Annual operating budget: | $700,000 |
| Annual salaries posted, or accessible via 990 form: | No |
| Editorial/ethics policy statement: | No |
| Diversity statement: | Yes |
| IRS 990 form posted on website: | Yes (Community Service Society of NY) |
| Major donors disclosed: | Yes |
| INN Member: | Yes |
| Awards: | In 2011, City Limits was the Park Center for Independent Media's Izzy Award Winner for Outstanding Journalism. We have also won top awards for the Society of Professional Journalists, Education Writers of America, The National Council on Crime and Delinquency, The Deadline Club, New York Community Media Alliance, and the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Awards. We've been nominated for honors by the Journalism Center for Children & Families and the Livingston Award. |
| Contact: | citylimits@citylimits.org or 212-614-5397 |
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.
