| Description: | Consumer Reports magazine and Consumer Reports.org provide independent, unbiased reporting and testing of issues that matter to everyday consumers. We feature ratings and recommendations on thousands of products and services in categories including appliances, cars, electronics and computers, home and garden, health and fitness, babies and kids, food, personal finance and travel. The magazine and website accept no outside advertising, and take no free test samples. It also produces enterprising investigative reports on issues of public interest, from food and product saftely to best medical practices. |
| Begun: | 1936; website started in 1997 |
| Website: | http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/index.htm |
| Office Location: | 101 Truman Avenue Yonkers, NY |
| Structure: | 501 (c)(3) organization |
| Founder: | Not Applicable |
| Executive Director: | James A Guest (president); Kevin Mc Kean (editorial director) |
| Approximate number of full-time staff: | 600+ |
| Number with prior professional journalism experience: | 100+ |
| Annual operating budget: | $43.1 million |
| 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: | No |
| Awards: | National Magazine Awards, Sigma Delta Chi Awards, George Polk Awards, National Press Club Awards, Gerald Leob Awards (among others) |
| Contact: | tiernr@consumer.org (Rober Tiernan, mangaging editor) or 914-378-2742 |
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.
