Center for Investigative Reporting

The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR), also known as Reveal, is a nonprofit newsroom that conducts multi-platform, in-depth investigations with a focus on accountability, inequality, and sustainability. Through its award-winning Reveal podcast and radio show, CIR communicates its investigations and those of partner organizations to wide audiences. This grant supports general operations, and the outcome is increased capacity for CIR to conduct public-interest investigative reporting, and disseminate its findings to wide audiences, including those most impacted by the issues it covers.

The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR), also known as Reveal, is a nonprofit newsroom that conducts multiplatform, in-depth investigations with a focus on accountability, inequality, and sustainability. Through its award-winning Reveal podcast and radio show, CIR communicates its investigations and those of partner organizations to wide audiences. This grant supports general operations, and the outcome is increased capacity for CIR to conduct public-interest investigative reporting, and disseminate its findings to wide audiences, and those most impacted.

The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to conducting investigative reporting on issues of critical importance in the United States. Its investigative work explores topics including criminal justice, immigration, human rights, health care, workers’ rights, climate change, and other underreported subjects critical to American life. Since 2013, it has co-produced “Reveal,” the investigative podcast, heard via 500 public radio stations nationwide, and 1.5 million downloads, with PRX, which features its work and that of partner newsrooms working at the local, regional, and national level. It also produces documentaries and television news stories, publishes in-depth investigative reports, and partners with local and regional outlets to support local news coverage. This award provides general operating support and will result in more investigative journalism in the public interest, distributed in creative and strategic ways.

The Center for Investigative Reporting is a nonprofit journalism organization dedicated to researching, reporting, and disseminating in-depth investigative reports. Its work reveals abuses of power and systemic social problems, particularly those that affect individuals and communities that are vulnerable and disenfranchised. Its investigations result in print, audio, video, interactive, data visualization, animation, and spoken word poetry reports disseminated by newspapers, magazines, digital news sites, and television and radio news programs, and as podcasts and live events.  This general operating award will support the editorial leadership, which assigns and manages stories and ensures the highest standards of journalism across all projects; will provide the ability and flexibility to seed new reporting projects; and will fund core operations and infrastructure. The outcome is original and impactful journalism that often leads to policy and administrative change.  

Established in 1977, the Center for Investigative Reporting is a nonprofit investigative news organization that provides local and national audiences with deep, analytical, data-rich information and news essential for citizenship. Each year, the Center pursues about 50 major investigations on a range of issues. These investigations result in over 1,000 stories (in text, audio, video, data interactive, animation, or graphics) distributed through regional and national, commercial and public media news partners and directly to the public. This grant will provide general operating support to the Center.