{"id":1150,"date":"2010-10-29T17:31:38","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T17:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conference.journalists.org\/2010conference\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2010-10-29T17:31:38","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T17:31:38","slug":"investigative-non-profits-booming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ona10.journalists.org\/2010\/10\/29\/investigative-non-profits-booming\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigative non-profits booming"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1784\" style=\"width: 256px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1784\" href=\"http:\/\/conference.journalists.org\/2010conference\/2010\/10\/29\/investigative-non-profits-booming\/picture-2\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1784\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1784\" title=\"Charles Lewis\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/10\/Picture-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1784\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Lewis<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As large, for-profit news organizations find themselves struggling to support regular investigative reporting projects, non-profit organizations are rising to fill the vacuum. A report released today by the Investigative Reporting Workshop says the investigative ecosystem is not dying; in fact, it is thriving.<\/p>\n<p>The report examined the financial transparency of these organizations, whether that information is publicly available and the demographics of non-profit employees. Subjects included 60 non-profits, 38 of which were started in the last four years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They seem to be proliferating like rabbits,&#8221; said Charles Lewis, founding executive director of the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University.<\/p>\n<p>Participants on an ONA panel told listeners that a number of organizations &#8212; both old and new &#8212; are serious about investigative work. But, they need a continuing influx of resources to make it happen.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1613\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1613\" href=\"http:\/\/conference.journalists.org\/2010conference\/2010\/10\/29\/investigative-non-profits-booming\/investigative_ecosystem\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1613\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1613\" title=\"investigative_ecosystem\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/10\/investigative_ecosystem.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">By Molly Gray<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Charles Lewis, of the Investigative Reporting Workshop, said lines are blurring between for-profit and non-profit news gathering organizations. <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p> Lorie Hearn, executive director of the San Diego State University-based Watchdog Institute, said successes with paying partners are slow in coming. <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p> Raney Aronson-Rath, senior producer at Frontline, said the organization has begun publishing some of its work online prior to broadcast in order to increase potential audience. <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p> Kevin Davis, CEO of the Investigative News Network, said INN collaboration allows<br \/>\nnetwork members to share information and create localized versions from other members&#8217; stories. <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Lewis, founding executive director of the Investigative Journalism Workshop at American University, issued a new report by the university about a growing number of non-profit, investigative journalism outfits across the country.<br \/>\nThe report examined the financial transparency of these organizations, whether that information is publicly available and the demographics of non-profit employees. Subjects included 60 non-profits, thirty of which were started in the last four years.<br \/>\n&#8220;They seem to be proliferating like rabbits,&#8221; Lewis said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1843,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"start_time":0,"end_time":0,"moderators":[],"hashtag":[],"soundcloud":[],"scribble":[],"viafoura":[],"youtube":[],"vimeo":[],"facebook":[],"trint":[],"slideshare":[],"livestream":[],"resources":[],"video_embed":[],"first_name":"","last_name":"","title":"","organization":"","website":"","twitter":"","_sponsor_url":"","_sponsor_tagline":"","_sponsor_level":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaWrG-iy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona10.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona10.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona10.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona10.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1843"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona10.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ona10.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona10.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona10.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona10.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}