| Description: | A nonprofit, local news source for Chicago and it 70-plus neighborhoods and 50 wards. We collaborate on investigations and share content with other local news sites, including Windy Citizen, Great Lakes Echo, Community Media Workshop, The Beachwood Reporter, Chicago News Cooperative and others. Our reporters include students and faculty from Columbia College Chicago and people from all over the city who have something to say. |
| Begun: | 2006, launched 2007 |
| Website: | http://www.chicagotalks.org/ |
| Office Location: | Journalism Department, Columbia College Chicago, 600 S. Michigan Chicago, IL |
| Structure: | 501 (c)(3) organization (a part of Columbia College Chicago Journalism Department) |
| Founder: | Barbara Iverson and Suzanne McBride |
| Executive Director: | Barbara Iverson and Suzanne McBride |
| Approximate number of full-time staff: | 0 |
| Number with prior professional journalism experience: | 2 |
| Annual operating budget: | $7,000 |
| Annual salaries posted, or accessible via 990 form: | Not Applicable |
| Editorial/ethics policy statement: | No |
| Diversity statement: | No |
| IRS 990 form posted on website: | Not Applicable |
| Major donors disclosed: | Yes |
| INN Member: | Application Pending |
| Awards: | Investigative Reporters and Editors (awarded under our original name of Creating Community Connections), Society of Professional Journalists, Chicago Headline Club, Association of Statehouse Reporters and Editors |
| Contact: | citizenjourno@gmail.com |
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.
