| Description: | A nonprofit, online publication dedicated to news that matters for people in our region. Our Beacon shines with quality reporting — frequently updated and featuring depth, context and continuity. We provide thoughtful discussion from many points of view and connect you with good sources of information elsewhere. |
| Begun: | 2008 |
| Website: | http://www.stlbeacon.org/index.php |
| Office Location: | 3655 Olive St. St. Louis, MO |
| Structure: | 501 (c)(3) organization |
| Founder: | Margaret Wolf Freivogel, Robert W. Duffy, Richard K. Weil |
| Executive Director: | Margaret Wolf Freivogel (executive editor) |
| Approximate number of full-time staff: | 20 |
| Number with prior professional journalism experience: | 15 |
| Annual operating budget: | $1 million |
| Annual salaries posted, or accessible via 990 form: | No |
| Editorial/ethics policy statement: | Yes |
| Diversity statement: | No |
| IRS 990 form posted on website: | Yes |
| Major donors disclosed: | Yes |
| INN Member: | Yes |
| Awards: | Finalist twice in the General Excellence category (micro division) in the Online Journalism Awards. |
| Contact: | 314-535-NEWS |
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.
