| Description: | The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) is the nation's oldest, nonprofit, investigative news organization. CIR reports have reached the public through televison, print, radio and online, appearing in outlets such as 60 Minutes, PBS FRONTLINE, NPR, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Politico and U.S. News & World Report. Its reports have sparked congressional hearings and legislation, United Nations resolutions, public-interest lawsuits and change in corporate policies. In 2009, CIR launched California Watch, which is now the largest investigative journalism team operating in the state. Areas of coverage include education, health and welfare, public safety, the environment and the influcence of money on the political and regulatory process. |
| Begun: | 1977 |
| Website: | http://www.centerforinvestigativereporting.org/ |
| Office Location: | 2130 Center St., Suite 103 Berkeley, CA |
| Structure: | 501 (c)(3) organization |
| Founder: | Lowell Bergman, Dan Noyes, Henry Weinstein, David Weir |
| Executive Director: | Robert Rosenthal |
| Approximate number of full-time staff: | 31 |
| Number with prior professional journalism experience: | 28 |
| Annual operating budget: | $5.2 million |
| Annual salaries posted, or accessible via 990 form: | No |
| Editorial/ethics policy statement: | No |
| Diversity statement: | No |
| IRS 990 form posted on website: | Yes |
| Major donors disclosed: | Yes |
| INN Member: | Yes |
| Awards: | Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton, Emmy Award, George Polk Award, Investigative Reporters and Editors awards, National Press Club award, National Magazine Award for Reporting Excellence; Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award; Online News Association, National Headliner Award |
| Contact: | marlene@mssassociates.com (Marlene Saritzky) or 415-713-1241 |
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.
