About CIR



About CIR

Founded in 1977, the Center for Investigative Reporting is the nation's oldest nonprofit investigative news organization, producing multimedia reporting that has impact and is relevant to people's lives. Building on our long track record of award-winning print, broadcast and web reporting, CIR is now seeking to help lead the way in transforming journalism for the 21st century. 

We are living in an age of upheaval, institutional collapse, and historic unforeseen change. And journalism is not immune. The only “business” protected by the Constitution, the business of informing the public, has been eviscerated in recent years. The role that journalism plays in a functioning democracy—informing the public and holding the powerful accountable—is at serious risk. Major issues affecting the very fabric of this nation and the world go uninvestigated. As we struggle to find solutions to two wars, climate change, immigration, a recession, and myriad other global issues, a thriving media is more important than ever.

CIR is working to ensure that high-quality, credible, unique journalism does not die, but flourishes. Our innovative new model relies on in-depth collaboration with other news organizations, journalists, public policy organizations and universities, and fully exploits new storytelling technologies, to provide citizens—local and global—with critical, actionable information that impacts their lives. Important to this model is our search for new revenue streams that can help sustain high-quality journalism in a digital age.

CIR’s newest venture is California Watch, a major new reporting initiative to produce in-depth, high impact multimedia journalism specific to California and to engage the public on issues of critical importance to the state.

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CIR in the News:

Can Newspaper Muckraking Carry On in Nonprofits?
NY Times | January 17, 2010

California Watch says 'Yes' to open, networked investigative reports
MediaShift | December 17, 2009

California Watch to Launch New Web Site in January
Mediabistro/BayNewser | December 3, 2009

Filling the Gap
American Journalism Review | December 2, 2009

Public TV, Radio Stations to Increase Local Investigative Coverage as Columbia Report Advised
Poynter Online | November 20, 2009

California Watch's revenue model: Charge news outlets, target donors
Nieman Journalism Lab | November 17, 2009

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Contact Us:

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Berkeley, CA 94704
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For press inquiries, please contact Lisa Cohen at lisa@lisacohen.org or 310-395-2544.




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