| Description: | An independent, nonprofit news service serving as an information source and voice for parents, students, teachers and other members of the community who are working for quality and equality in Philadelphia’s public schools. |
| Begun: | 1994 |
| Website: | http://www.thenotebook.org |
| Office Location: | 3721 Midvale Ave. Philadelphia, PA |
| Structure: | 501(c)(3) organization (a project of Resources for Human Development Inc.) |
| Founder: | Eric Joselyn, Myrtle L. Naylor, Paul Socolar, Richard Smith, Cindy Farlino |
| Executive Director: | Paul Socolar |
| Approximate number of full-time staff: | 5 |
| Number with prior professional journalism experience: | 3 |
| Annual operating budget: | $625,719 |
| Annual salaries posted, or accessible via 990 form: | Yes |
| Editorial/ethics policy statement: | Yes |
| Diversity statement: | Yes |
| IRS 990 form posted on website: | No (“RHDs is available”) |
| Major donors disclosed: | Yes |
| INN Member: | Yes |
| Awards: | Community Empowerment Award; Bread and Roses Community Fund, 2003; Second prize in the community blogging category of the Education Writers Association National Education Reporting Awards, 2010 |
| Contact: | notebook@thenotebook.org or 215-951-0330, ext. 2107 |
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.
