The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
| Founded | April 2010 |
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| Type | Nonprofit |
| Focus | Investigative journalism |
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Key people
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Rachel Oldroyd, Managing Editor, Meirion Jones, Investigations Editor, Miriam Wells, Production Editor, Megan Lucero, Data Lab Director |
| Website | thebureauinvestigates |
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (typically abbreviated to TBIJ or "the Bureau") is a nonprofit news organisation based in London. It was founded in 2010 to pursue "public interest" investigations, funded through philanthropy. The Bureau works with publishers and broadcasters to maximise the impact of its investigations. Since its founding it has collaborated with Panorama, Newsnight, and File on 4 at the BBC, Channel 4 News and Dispatches, as well as the Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph, and The Sunday Times, among others. The Bureau has covered a wide range of stories and won many awards including for its coverage of the drone wars and investigation of "joint enterprise" murder convictions. Its managing editor is Rachel Oldroyd.
The Bureau was established in 2010 by former Sunday Times reporter Elaine Potter, who worked on exposing the Thalidomide scandal, and her husband David Potter, who founded software company Psion. Initial funding for the project came from the Potters' charitable foundation, who committed £2 million. Elaine cites one of her inspirations being the creation two years previous of ProPublica, a nonprofit organisation based in New York with a similar remit, also funded philanthropically.
Additional support came in the forms of subsidised office space from City University as well as software tools and training from Google.
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