| Description: | An independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan news service |
| Begun: | February 2010 |
| Website: | http://www.iowawatch.org/ |
| Office Location: | P.O. Box 2178 Iowa City, IA |
| Structure: | 501(c)(3) organization (as of June 14, 2010; The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism was the Iowa Center’s fiscal sponsor during the IRS approval process |
| Founder: | Stephen Berry and Robert Gutsche Jr. |
| Executive Director: | Stephen J. Berry (executive director/editor) |
| Approximate number of full-time staff: | 0 (Berry works full-time as a volunteer, while also serving as a salaried, tenured journalism professor at the University of Iowa) |
| Number with prior professional journalism experience: | 1 |
| Annual operating budget: | $133,200 (91 percent volunteer service) |
| Annual salaries posted, or accessible via 990 form: | No (no salaried personnel) |
| Editorial/ethics policy statement: | Yes |
| Diversity statement: | No |
| IRS 990 form posted on website: | No (filed 990-N E-Post Card) |
| Major donors disclosed: | Yes |
| INN Member: | Yes |
| Awards: | Jim Malewitz, SPJ Region 7 Mark of Excellence, 3rd place, news features; (Berry was previously a newspaper reporter for 33 years, winning the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1993 while at the Orlando Sentinel). |
| Contact: | Stephen-berry@iowawatch.org or 319-335-3331 |
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.
