The Signals Network

The Signals Network (TSN) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting whistleblowers and helping to coordinate media investigations to hold powerful private and public entities accountable. It provides whistleblowers with legal and other customized support services, and it pairs them with journalists who can best represent the materials they share in the public interest. This recommended grant renews general operating support for TSN to expand its capacity to help whistleblowers deal with the legal, physical, psychological, and economic consequences of speaking out; enhance its efforts to advocate for whistleblower protections; and train news organizations of all sizes how to work with whistleblowers.

The Signals Network (TSN) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting whistleblowers and helping to coordinate media investigations to hold powerful private and public entities accountable. Recognizing the growing dependence of our democracies on technology, TSN has a special commitment to working with whistleblowers in the technology sector. It provides them legal and other customized support services, and it pairs them with journalists who can best represent the materials they share in the public interest. This general support grant is enabling TSN to expand its capacity to help whistleblowers deal with the legal, physical, psychological, and economic consequences of speaking out; enhance its efforts to advocate for whistleblower protections; and train news organizations of all sizes how to work with whistleblowers.

The Signals Network aims to advance global investigative reporting with a special emphasis on the role of whistleblowers. Recognizing that courageous individuals have to come forward to reveal the wrongdoing of powerful entities, the Signals Network provides legal support, information security, safe-housing, and psychological support to whistleblowers that contribute to published reports of significant wrongdoing. One of its signature programs is coordinating multi-partner investigations and supporting the call for information and tips. The Signals Network plays a key role in establishing principles and processes with participating media outlets that provide protections for whistleblowers that come forward. This grant will support The Signals Network’s annual workshop with media partners which will take place on September 25, 2019 in Hamburg, Germany, in advance of the Global Investigative Journalism Conference.