| Description: | We work to spur community improvement and safeguard the public through stories that promote government accountability and ethical business. We accomplish our mission by collaborating with a variety of partners, including other nonprofit centers around the country and public radio. |
| Begun: | July 2010 |
| Website: | http://investigatemidwest.org/ |
| Office Location: | 7645 Canterbury Dr. Prairie Village, KS |
| Structure: | 501(c)(3) organization |
| Founder: | Mike Sherry |
| Executive Director: | Mike Sherry (executive director) |
| Approximate number of full-time staff: | 1 (8-member Board of Directors) |
| Number with prior professional journalism experience: | 1 |
| Annual operating budget: | $20,000 |
| Annual salaries posted, or accessible via 990 form: | Not available |
| Editorial/ethics policy statement: | Not available |
| Diversity statement: | Not available |
| IRS 990 form posted on website: | No |
| Major donors disclosed: | Not available |
| INN Member: | Yes |
| Awards: | Not available |
| Contact: | editor@investigatemidwest.org or 816-728-1359 |
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.
