| Description: | The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) is a data gathering, data research and data distribution organization at Syracuse University. The purpose of TRAC is to provide the American people — and institutions of oversight such as Congress, news organizations, public interest groups, businesses, scholars and lawyers — with comprehensive information about staffing, spending and enforcement activities of the federal government. |
| Begun: | 1989 |
| Website: | http://trac.syr.edu/ |
| Office Location: | Suite 360, Newhouse II, 215 University Place, Syracuse University Syracuse, NY |
| Structure: | Part of Syracuse University |
| Founder: | David Burnham and Susan Long |
| Executive Director: | David Burnham and Susan Long |
| Approximate number of full-time staff: | 6 |
| Number with prior professional journalism experience: | 2 |
| Annual operating budget: | $800,000 |
| Annual salaries posted, or accessible via 990 form: | No |
| Editorial/ethics policy statement: | Yes |
| Diversity statement: | Yes, on Syracuse University website |
| IRS 990 form posted on website: | Not applicable (part of Syracuse University) |
| Major donors disclosed: | Yes |
| INN Member: | No |
| Awards: | None |
| Contact: | trac@syr.edu (comments and queries) |
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.
