Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation
12 INN Members Win Funding Totaling Nearly $1 Million
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12 members of INN's network of independent, nonprofit investigative news sites won grants from the Ethics & Excellence in Journalism Foundation.
Conferences
INN Teams Up with IRE for Day Focusing on Nonprofits at IRE 2013 Conference
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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.
Grants
INNovation Fund Round 2 Winners Announced
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The Investigative News Network announces eight winners of the second round of its INNovation Fund grants, for a total of $226,020. The fund was established with the support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to spur business innovation and experimentation in nonprofit newsrooms that are focused on audience engagement and long-term sustainability.
Awards
IRE Honors Top Investigative Reporting, Including Many INN Members
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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.”
Member News
Journalists learn how to follow the money in state elections
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About 20 reporters from around the country gathered in Missoula, Montana, last week to learn how to track contributions in state elections, spot patterns and find stories among the data.
Membership
Watchdog Institute Changes Name, Watchdog Mission Remains Strong
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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.