| Description: | The Workshop does significant, original, investigative reporting on subjects of national and international importance for publication or broadcast, and separately, researches and experiments with new economic models for creating and delivering investigative reporting in the United States and around the world. |
| Begun: | 2008 |
| Website: | http://investigativereportingworkshop.org/ |
| Office Location: | 3201 New Mexico Ave. N.W., Suite 249 Washington, DC |
| Structure: | A project of the American University School of Communication |
| Founder: | Charles Lewis and Wendell Cochran |
| Executive Director: | Charles Lewis (exective editor) |
| Approximate number of full-time staff: | 8 |
| Number with prior professional journalism experience: | 6 |
| Annual operating budget: | $1.7 million (2011) |
| Annual salaries posted, or accessible via 990 form: | Yes (for Lewis) |
| Editorial/ethics policy statement: | Yes |
| Diversity statement: | Yes (under American University’s policy) |
| IRS 990 form posted on website: | Not applicable (part of American University) |
| Major donors disclosed: | Yes |
| INN Member: | Yes |
| Awards: | 2010 "Creative Use of Online" media award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, for Wendell Cochran’s BankTracker project |
| Contact: | info@investigativereportingworkshop.org or 202-885-3600 |
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.
