As INN enters its third year, CEO Kevin Davis reports that the network has doubled the size of its membership, successfully secured its own 501(c)(3) status, and is fully operational in each of the five key areas of support services.
Three organizations, from Ottawa, New York City and Colorado join INN focused on investigative news in the public interest of Canadians, New York City residents and Colorado education policy.
The Center for Investigative Reporting in Berkley, California hosted thirty journalists and featured speakers to share and discuss the best business practices for nonprofit news rooms.
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.
INN initial funder, Buzz Wooley continues his support for INN with a $100K grant to support its continued growth and development. Wooley is also the founder of INN member Voice of San Diego.
Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) and the Investigative News Network (INN) are partnering to host Best Practices for Nonprofit Newsrooms: A day of hands-on sharing and learning at the IRE Conference in Boston on June 14, 2012. This all-day program will focus on three areas that are vital to nonprofit investigative centers: collaboration, legal issues, and best practices in operations. All INN members are encouraged to attend. Additional conference details are available on IRE's website. The agenda for June 14 includes:
9:45 a.m. Welcome remarks Kevin Davis, INN CEO
10 a.m. Collaboration Workshop Evelyn Larrubia, INN Editorial Director
As collaborations between newsrooms flourish, how do you handle serious journalistic disagreements, such as how a story’s findings are described in the nutgraph?
ByKevin Davis, Chief Executive Officer & Executive Director |
INN receives a $125K grant from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation to continue to provide services to our members. The foundation also awarded grants to nine INN members.
Vivian Schiller and Neal Shapiro, who have been media leaders at both mainstream commercial and nonprofit organizations, have joined the board of directors of the Investigative News Network (INN).
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.
After more than two and a half years, the IRS has awarded 501(c)3 nonprofit status to the San Francisco Public Press, a nonprofit, noncommercial local news organization that publishes in-depth public-interest news daily online at sfpublicpress.org and quarterly in a print newspaper.
The Investigative News Network is pleased to announce that it has received a two-year $225,000 grant from the Robert R. McCormick Foundation. This two-year grant will be used for joint reporting projects and support services for INN’s growing network of 60-members
The funds will also finance a second training seminar for INN members in partnership with the Center for Investigative Reporting. The seminar will be held April 2012 in Berkeley, Calif., prior to the annual Logan Symposium on Investigative Reporting. "We are very grateful to the McCormick Foundation for their continued support of our consortium," said Kevin Davis, CEO and Executive Director of INN. "Thanks to this generous grant, INN can increase the level and impact of the editorial collaborations across the Network, while increasing the business capabilities of our member organizations. The grant is part of the nearly $5 million in McCormick funding approved for 22 organizations dedicated to news literacy, press freedoms and excellence in journalism over the course of the next two years.
Researching and reporting on money and politics, OpenSecrets.org often collaborates with other news organizations and share's INN's aim to keep the public informed.
PEW releases a study of the for profit and nonprofit newsrooms, examining 46 newsrooms to examine transparency in funding and evidence of reporting bias.
ProPublica, one of the largest non-profit investigative newsrooms in the U.S., has joined the Investigative News Network (INN), a growing consortium of nearly 60 nonprofit news organizations in North America. “We are delighted to have ProPublica become a member of our community of nonprofit and nonpartisan newsrooms,” says Kevin Davis, CEO & Executive Director of INN. “ProPublica is a leading organization in the nonprofit journalism sector that consistently demonstrates both the need and the ability for these newsrooms to create high quality public interest journalism.”
ProPublica was created in 2007 and has one of the largest investigative newsrooms in the U.S. In 2010, ProPublica was the first online news organization to win a Pulitzer Prize. In 2011, ProPublica won the first Pulitzer awarded to a body of work that did not appear in print. ”ProPublica is very pleased to be joining INN,” said Richard Tofel, General Manager of ProPublica. We’re proud to have already published stories in partnership with seven INN members (as well as more than 70 other news organizations), have worked closely with other INN members, and look forward to collaborating with even more. We’re very enthusiastic about Kevin Davis’s leadership of INN and have already realized significant cost savings through our INN association.”
ProPublica is supported primarily by philanthropy and provides the articles it produces, free of charge, both through its own website and to leading news organizations selected with an eye toward maximizing the impact of each article. INN was founded in 2009 to help the increasing number of nonprofit newsrooms to pool resources, promote editorial collaborations and get wider distribution of their work.
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.
INN CEO Kevin Davis visited Colorado University in Boulder to participate in the 2011 Hearst Professional-in-Residence, presenting to classes and engaging students and faculty members.
The Watchdog Institute is launching a name change and a formal partnership today with KPBS, the PBS-NPR affiliate in San Diego. The partnership underscores a new level of collaboration between the organizations, which over the past year have investigated the whooping cough epidemic and inequities in K-12 school funding in California. The Institute, which opened its doors in San Diego State University’s School of Journalism & Media Studies in 2009, is now known as Investigative Newsource. Founder and executive director Lorie Hearn said the new name “ is a natural outgrowth of the evolutionary process we’ve gone through as a young startup. Investigative Newsource better defines who we are, and plainly reflects our quest to be a source of credible, investigative, nonpartisan journalism.”
Hearn said the partnership with KPBS strengthens the commitment of both organizations to public service journalism in the region, particularly as KPBS debuts a nightly, half-hour television news show this week. “By sharing our expertise and resources, we can provide more and deeper projects of importance to the community,” she said.