| Description: | The Fund for Investigative Journalism gives grants to reporters working outside the protection and backing of major news organizations. Grants are limited to journalists seeking pre-publication help for investigative pieces. |
| Begun: | 1969 |
| Website: | http://fij.org/ |
| Office Location: | 1023 15th St. N.W., Suite 350 Washington, DC |
| Structure: | 501(c)(3) organization |
| Founder: | Philip M. Stern |
| Executive Director: | Sandy Bergo (part-time) |
| Approximate number of full-time staff: | 0 (full-time) |
| Number with prior professional journalism experience: | 0 (Bergo and the 11-person Board are all veteran journalists) |
| Annual operating budget: | $193,000 (2008) |
| Annual salaries posted, or accessible via 990 form: | Yes (Board members serve without compensation) |
| Editorial/ethics policy statement: | No |
| Diversity statement: | No |
| IRS 990 form posted on website: | Yes |
| Major donors disclosed: | Yes |
| INN Member: | No |
| Awards: | Fund-supported projects have won two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Magazine Awards, the Raymond Clapper Award, the George Polk Award, the Sigma Delta Chi Award, the Worth Bingham Prize, the New York Newspaper Guild's Front Page Award. |
| Contact: | fundfij@gmail.com or 202-391-0206 |
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.
