| Description: | We will hold the powerful — including major institutions, officials and policy makers — accountable to the public. The primary goals are to produce high-quality, high-impact investigative reports that will be published and aired by multiple media partners on multiple platforms, to train the next generation of investigative reporters and to serve as a platform for experimenting with how to effectively deliver long-form investigative content to a digital audience. |
| Begun: | 2009 |
| Website: | http://necir-bu.org/wp/ |
| Office Location: | 640 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA |
| Structure: | A project of the College of Communication at Boston University |
| Founder: | Joe Bergantino and Maggie Mulvihill |
| Executive Director: | Joe Bergantino |
| Approximate number of full-time staff: | 2 |
| Number with prior professional journalism experience: | 2 |
| Annual operating budget: | $350,000 - $400,000 |
| Annual salaries posted, or accessible via 990 form: | No |
| Editorial/ethics policy statement: | Yes |
| Diversity statement: | No |
| IRS 990 form posted on website: | Not applicable (part of Boston University) |
| Major donors disclosed: | Yes |
| INN Member: | Yes |
| Awards: | No |
| Contact: | 617-353-4546 |
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.
