| Description: | The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism strives to increase the quality and amount of investigative reporting across Wisconsin and to explore creation of a replicable, collaborative model for local investigative journalism, working in collaboration with mainstream and ethnic media and its partners at Wisconsin Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Television and the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism & Mass Communication. The Center is guided by its mission statement: Protect the vulnerable. Expose wrongdoing. It focuses upon government integrity and quality-of-life issues of importance to the people of Wisconsin, including the environment, justice system, education, economic issues, health and public safety. |
| Begun: | 2009 |
| Website: | http://www.wisconsinwatch.org/ |
| Office Location: | University of Wisconsin, 5006 Vilas Communication Hall, 821 University Ave. Madison, WI |
| Structure: | 501(c)(3) organization |
| Founder: | Andy Hall |
| Executive Director: | Andy Hall (executive editor) |
| Approximate number of full-time staff: | 3 |
| Number with prior professional journalism experience: | 3 |
| Annual operating budget: | $255,000 (2011) |
| Annual salaries posted, or accessible via 990 form: | Yes |
| Editorial/ethics policy statement: | Yes |
| Diversity statement: | Yes |
| IRS 990 form posted on website: | Yes |
| Major donors disclosed: | Yes |
| INN Member: | Yes |
| Awards: | 2011 Milwaukee Press Club Awards for Excellence in Journalism for 1st Place Best Coverage of a Single New Topic or Event; 1st Place Best Innovative Online Feature; Best Investigative Story or Series; 2nd Place Best Public Service or Public Education Feature Story' 2nd Place Best Business Story or Series; 2011 NAMI Media Award |
| Contact: | ahall@wisconsinwatch.org or 608-262-3642 (Andy Hall) |
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.
