| Description: | The Investigative Fund incubates and supports important investigative stories with the potential for social impact. The Investigative Fund does this by providing reporters with editorial guidance, institutional support and grants to cover the research costs associated with investigative journalism. |
| Begun: | 1998 |
| Website: | http://www.theinvestigativefund.org/ |
| Office Location: | 116 East 16th St., 8th Floor New York, NY |
| Structure: | A project of the Nation Institute, a nonprofit media center |
| Founder: | Hamilton Fish |
| Executive Director: | Esther Kaplan and Joe Conason (editors) |
| Approximate number of full-time staff: | 4 |
| Number with prior professional journalism experience: | 4 |
| Annual operating budget: | $600,000 |
| Annual salaries posted, or accessible via 990 form: | Yes |
| Editorial/ethics policy statement: | No |
| Diversity statement: | No |
| IRS 990 form posted on website: | No |
| Major donors disclosed: | Yes |
| INN Member: | No |
| Awards: | Fund-supported projects have won numerous awards including the National Magazine Award, George Polk Award, Investigative Reporters and Editors Certificate, Daniel Pearl Award, Hillman Prize, Casey Medal, National Headliner Award, and the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism |
| Contact: | http://www.theinvestigativefund.org/contact or 212-822-0250 |
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.
