| Description: | Our site combines original investigative and feature reporting with community news and information on nonprofit organizations, community groups and many engaged citizens from around the city. We are a voice of independent journalism and community service for a city where too many people go unheard, too many issues uncovered. An independent, nonprofit community news and information hub, connecting community and news. |
| Begun: | 2009 |
| Website: | http://oaklandlocal.com/ |
| Office Location: | Oakland Local, ℅ TechLiminal, 268 14th St. Oakland, CA |
| Structure: | 501(c)(3) organization (a project of the Center for Media Change) |
| Founder: | Susan Mernit |
| Executive Director: | Susan Mernit (executive editor) |
| Approximate number of full-time staff: | 0 |
| Number with prior professional journalism experience: | 6 |
| Annual operating budget: | $120,000 |
| Annual salaries posted, or accessible via 990 form: | Yes |
| Editorial/ethics policy statement: | Yes |
| Diversity statement: | Yes |
| IRS 990 form posted on website: | No |
| Major donors disclosed: | Yes |
| INN Member: | No |
| Awards: | Oaklandish Innovators Award (2011) |
| Contact: | editor@oaklandlocal.com (news tips, press releases, queries), or http://oaklandlocal.com/contact (message box) |
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.
