| Description: | A program of Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc. (IRE) and the Missouri School of Journalism. NICAR is a nonprofit, journalism service organization. Our policy prohibits us from selling data to non-journalists. Data is sold at or below costs to journalism organizations or individuals for legitimate journalism uses only. |
| Begun: | 1989 (The original name was the Missouri Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (MICAR), changed to NICAR in 1994) |
| Website: | http://data.nicar.org/node/65 |
| Office Location: | 141 Neff Annex, Missouri School of Journalism Columbia, MO |
| Structure: | A project of the Missouri School of Journalism |
| Founder: | Elliot Jaspin |
| Executive Director: | IRE executive director Mark Horvit also oversees NICAR. |
| Approximate number of full-time staff: | 2 |
| Number with prior professional journalism experience: | 2 |
| Annual operating budget: | $1.5 million |
| Annual salaries posted, or accessible via 990 form: | No |
| Editorial/ethics policy statement: | No |
| Diversity statement: | No |
| IRS 990 form posted on website: | Not applicable (part of the Missouri School of Journalism) |
| Major donors disclosed: | Yes |
| INN Member: | Yes |
| Awards: | ICAR administers the Philip Meyer Journalism Award for the best journalism done using social science research methods. |
| Contact: | 573-882-2042 |
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.
