| Description: | The mission of the Center for Public Integrity is to produce original investigative journalism about significant public issues to make institutional power more transparent and accountable. |
| Begun: | 1989 |
| Website: | http://www.publicintegrity.org/ |
| Office Location: | 910 17th St. N.W., Suite 700 Washington, DC |
| Structure: | 501(c)(3) organization |
| Founder: | Charles Lewis |
| Executive Director: | Bill Buzenberg |
| Approximate number of full-time staff: | 52 |
| Number with prior professional journalism experience: | 30 |
| Annual operating budget: | $5.2 million (2010) |
| 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: | Yes |
| Awards: | More than 50 major journalism awards, including an Overseas Press Club award, the George Polk Award, seven Investigative Reporters and Editors awards, Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, Investigative Reporters and Editors, National Press Foundation, John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism, Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi awards, Online News Association, Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Awards, Society of Envnironmental Journalists, Association of Health Care Journalists, the Radio and Televison News Directors Association Edward R. Murrow Award, and a special citation announced at the Goldsmith Awards form the San Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University to the Center for Public Integrity for its body of work. two National Press Foundation awards, 14 Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi awards, an Online News Association General Excellence award, four Society of Environmental Journalists awards, the Radio and Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) Edward R. Murrow Award, and a special citation announced at the Goldsmith Awards from the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University to the Center for Public Integrity for its body of work. |
| Contact: | http://www.iwatchnews.org/contact or 202-466-1300 |
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Investigative News Network
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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
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