Awards
‘State Integrity’ Project Named Finalist for Goldsmith Prize
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The Center for Public Integrity's "State Integrity" collaboration was named as a finalist for the The Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.
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The Center for Public Integrity's "State Integrity" collaboration was named as a finalist for the The Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.
As the Director of Technology, Adam is responsible for the planning, implementation and measurement of INN’s technology initiatives, including Project Largo, INN’s open-source WordPress content publishing system built specifically to support the needs of long-form news publishers.
The Center for Investigative Reporting to launch an Investigative News Channel on YouTube® with the support of the Knight Foundation.
BAVC, based in San Francisco, CA, working to empower media makers to develop and share diverse stories and the Voice of OC, based in Orange County focused on accountability in government join INN.
INN thanks EEJF for its ongoing support of nonprofit journalism. EEJF's mission is to invest in the future of journalism by building the ethics, skills and opportunities needed to advance principled, probing news and information.
FERN’s Managing Editor and Founding Director Paula Crossfield said her principal motivation to join INN is for the opportunity to collaborate with other nonprofit newsrooms. Founded in October 2009, FERN began operations in September 2010 and is based in New York City. Its recent investigations have exposed questionable government subsidies for crop insurance and the effect of plastic contamination of food.
Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation continues their support of INN and its members with a grants intended to increase INN's ability to share their programs and support to individual member organizations.
The network is welcoming four new, fiscally-sponsored members: the Global Center for Investigative Journalism, the Southern Investigative Reporting Foundation, the Investigative Post and the Ohio Center for Investigative Reporting.
For the past three years, INN and IRE have worked together to create a program specifically tailored to the needs and issues facing nonprofit investigative newsrooms during the annual IRE conference. This year, on Thursday, June 20, 2013 in San Antonio, TX, we will offer a day filled with leaders in the field, workshops, and idea sharing designed to invigorate nonprofit news veterans and interested newbies alike.
Welcome to the Public Herald, Innovation Trail, and Environmental Health News/The Daily Climate.
The Investigative News Network now comprises 82 nonprofit newsrooms across North America: INN is pleased to welcome Mother Jones, the Raleigh Public Record, the Ochberg Society for Trauma Journalism and Hidden City Philadelphia.
The new members are The News Enterprise, NJ Spotlight, Newspaper Tree, Colorado Public News, New Mexico in Depth, the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting.
Congratulations to the INN members honored by the 2013 Investigative Reporters & Editors Awards. The annual IRE Awards, established in 1979, “recognize outstanding investigative work and help identify the techniques and resources used to complete each story.”
MapLight and The Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute have joined the Investigative News Network (INN), increasing the consortium’s reach into data analysis of politics and into social justice reporting. MapLight is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization – based in San Francisco - that reveals money's influence on politics through data analysis. It has already worked with INN members on several journalism projects. The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute "is dedicated to improving the scope and overall quality of investigative reporting in the independent press and beyond." Based in New York City, it supports important and often award-winning investigative stories with the potential for social impact, particularly on issues that may be overlooked by mainstream media.
The Open Society Foundations (OSF) has awarded $300,000 over two years to the Investigative News Network to provide funds to assist start-up member organizations in network’s technology and insurance initiatives.
“In joining INN, we hope to make our journalism, our data and our training more widely available,” said Sunlight’s Managing Editor Kathy Kiely. “We believe that non-profits are a crucial part of the information ecosystem at a time when the economic models for traditional journalism are collapsing.”
The Investigative News Network (INN) has received approval of non-profit 501(c)(3) status from the IRS, allowing the organization to directly receive grants from foundations and donations from individuals and continue its mission of supporting investigative journalism.
The two nonprofit newsrooms will expand the network’s reach through coverage of women’s issues by Women’s eNews, and organized crime in Latin America and the Caribbean by InSight Crime.