| Description: | A five-day-a-week report on news about the City of New Haven, Conn., produced by veteran local journalists, and by you. New Haven Independent.org is rooted in and devoted to the city. We believe that democracy starts at home, with smart, thorough, in-depth, local news reporting and broad citizen debate about local issues. Thanks to the Internet, journalists and news-deprived citizens need no longer be hostages to out-of-state media conglomerates. We can reclaim our communities. *Produced in conjunction with the Online Journalism Project |
| Begun: | 2005 |
| Website: | http://newhavenindependent.org/ |
| Office Location: | 51 Elm St., Suite 307 New Haven, CT |
| Structure: | 501(c)(3) organization |
| Founder: | Paul Bass |
| Executive Director: | Paul Bass (executive editor) |
| Approximate number of full-time staff: | 9 |
| Number with prior professional journalism experience: | 7 |
| Annual operating budget: | $575,000 |
| Annual salaries posted, or accessible via 990 form: | Yes |
| Editorial/ethics policy statement: | Yes |
| Diversity statement: | No |
| IRS 990 form posted on website: | Yes |
| Major donors disclosed: | Yes |
| INN Member: | Yes |
| Awards: | 2010 National Award for Excellence in American Journalism on Latino issues |
| Contact: | editor@newhavenindependent.org (Paul Bass) |
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.
