This grant is to support investigative reporting. It is part of a larger package of grants around investigative journalism that is meant to expand the critical capacity of nonprofit investigative journalism as a robust fourth estate. The grant will empower those newsrooms to pursue rigorous journalism that keeps the government accountable to the American people.
Strategy: Investigative Journalism
Center for Public Integrity
The Center for Public (CPI) Integrity will combine its historic strength in follow-the-money reporting with a rejuvenated approach to data analysis, digital presentation and high-impact distribution to make the influence of special interests on the 2016 presidential election impossible to ignore and relevant to a wider audience.
Center for Public Integrity
This grant is to support The Center for Public Integrity’s investigative journalism as a critical check and balance on power. The grant will provide the Center for Public Integrity with critical general operating support to help them fulfill their role as a core part of America’s fourth estate.
Gumshoe Group
The Gumshoe Group, a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy, Inc, builds structural, financial, and legal support for diverse freelance investigative journalists to pursue open records requests that hold institutions, power, and public officials accountable.
New York University
The Dutch news site, De Correspondent – which has solved the sustainability problem by becoming a world leader in member-supported journalism — wants to bring its formula to the US. This grant would fund a year of research and incubation at NYU and would create a laboratory to test De Correspondent’s models and lessons in the American context and focus on sharing those lessons throughout nonprofit news in the United States.
New York University
The Membership Puzzle Project is a research and field lab designed to help journalism in America rebuild its social contract with communities through membership and reader revenue strategies.