Center for Investigative Reporting
| Founded | 1977 |
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| Focus | Investigative journalism |
| Location | |
| Method | Foundation and member-supported |
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Key people
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Joaquin Alvarado , CEO Robert Rosenthal , Executive Director Amy Pyle , Editor in Chief Christa Scharfenberg , Head of Studio Phil Bronstein , Executive Chair |
| Slogan | The truth will not reveal itself |
| Website |
revealnews.org podcast youtube |
The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) is a nonprofit news organization based in Emeryville, California, and has conducted investigative journalism since 1977. It is known for producing stories that reveal scandals or corruption in government agencies and corporations. In 2010, CIR launched its California Watch reporting project; in 2012, it merged with The Bay Citizen; in 2015 it launched an hour-long public radio program, Reveal. Its 2016 budget is approximately $9.3 million. The current business model emphasizes cooperation with partners and other news outlets rather than competition. Robert Jon Rosenthal has been the executive director of the Center since 2007.Phil Bronstein is the organization’s executive chair.
David Weir, Dan Noyes, and Lowell Bergman founded the Berkeley-based Center for Investigative Reporting in 1977 in downtown Oakland, California. The Center’s first large investigation exposed the criminal activity of the Black Panther Party, a subject the organization revisited in 2012.
In 1982, a story published in Mother Jones magazine revealed testing fraud in consumer products. The center worked together with the magazine to produce the story. The investigation won several awards, including Sigma Delta Chi and Investigative Reporters and Editors awards.
CIR began producing television documentaries in 1980 and has since produced more than 30 documentaries for Frontline and Frontline/World, dozens of reports for other television outlets and three independent feature documentaries. ABC’s 20/20 and CBS’s 60 Minutes have featured reporting from CIR. Major stories in the 80s included studies of the toxicity of ordinary consumer products, an exposé of nuclear accidents in the world’s navies, and coverage of questionable tactics by the FBI during the Reagan administration.
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