| Description: | Newsdesk.org is a commercial-free, non-politicized news source covering important but overlooked issues from around the world — and your own backyard. Our weekly roundup of important but overlookded news from around the world has been published Wednesdays since February 2002, and draws from news outlets worldwide. |
| Begun: | 2002 |
| Website: | http://newsdesk.org |
| Office Location: | P.O. Box 420442 San Francisco, CA |
| Structure: | 501 (c)(3) organization--a project of Independent Arts and Media |
| Founder: | Josh Wilson (co-founder) |
| Executive Director: | Christine McClintock (executive editor); Josh Wilson (publisher); 10-member board of advisers listed on the site |
| Approximate number of full-time staff: | 1 |
| Number with prior professional journalism experience: | 1 |
| Annual operating budget: | $10,000 from individual donors |
| Annual salaries posted, or accessible via 990 form: | No salaries paid |
| Editorial/ethics policy statement: | No
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| Diversity statement: | No |
| IRS 990 form posted on website: | No |
| Major donors disclosed: | Yes |
| INN Member: | Yes |
| Awards: | Society of Professional Journalists' Award for Excellence in Online Journalism; 2009 Ashoka Changemakers finalist in The Power of Us:Re-Imagine Media competition |
| Contact: | editor@newsdesk.org 415-321-4902 |
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.
