| Description: | The Austin Bulldog is a nonprofit, independent, online news site for investigative reporting in the public interest. |
| Begun: | Incorporated May 2009; IRS tax-exempt status granted September 2009; website launched April 1, 2010. |
| Website: | http://www.theaustinbulldog.org/ |
| Office Location: | P.O. Box 4400 Austin, TX |
| Structure: | 501(c)(3) organization (The Austin Investigative Reporting Project) |
| Founder: | Ken Martin |
| Executive Director: | Ken Martin |
| Approximate number of full-time staff: | 1 |
| Number with prior professional journalism experience: | 1 |
| Annual operating budget: | "Raising money for $25,000 challenge grant recieved April 1, 2011; if obtained, total budget will be about $65,000." |
| Annual salaries posted, or accessible via 990 form: | No |
| Editorial/ethics policy statement: | Yes |
| Diversity statement: | No |
| IRS 990 form posted on website: | No (the organization is not yet required to file a 990) |
| Major donors disclosed: | Yes |
| INN Member: | Yes |
| Awards: | None |
| Contact: | ken@theaustinbulldog.org 512-474-1022 |
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.
