Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) Grants

Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) Grants is sponsored by MacArthur Foundation. Provides general operating support to CIR, a nonprofit newsroom conducting in-depth investigations on issues like accountability, inequality, and sustainability.

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Center for Investigative Reporting Journalism & Media , MacArthur Award for Creative & Effective Institutions and Human Rights 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.

The Center for Investigative Journalism is a nonprofit journalism organization dedicated to researching, reporting, and disseminating in-depth investigative reports for the purpose of contributing to a better informed public. This grant supports TYT Investigates, a new multiplatform investigative documentary series being developed by the Center for Investigative Reporting in collaboration with The Young Turks Network.

The Young Turks Network is best known for its flagship program, The Young Turks, a hosted news and culture program available online, on satellite radio, and more recently on Current TV.

TYT Investigates will combine the serious journalism and video reporting capabilities of CIR with the non-traditional style and reach of The Young Turks Network to bring serious and timely investigative journalism about corporate and government accountability to a younger and more global audience. This grant supports the launch of TYT Investigates, and the research, production and distribution of four initial investigative reports.

MacArthur Award for Creative & Effective Institutions In support of general operations (over three years). To support preliminary research for a documentary film exploring the debate over protecting intellectual property. In support of the documentary film "No Place to Hide: Stories from a Surveillance Society".

To support a documentary film on international small-arms trafficking. To support a Frontline television documentary on U.S. military spending and readiness. To support a television documentary on U.S. military spending.

To support institutional development to enable the generation of additional income from commercial sources (over two years). To support two documentaries (on national energy policy and campaign financing), to air on the PBS series "Frontline."

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MacArthur Award for Creative & Effective Institutions Grantmaking recognized exceptional grantee organizations that generated provocative ideas, reframed debates, and provided new ways of looking at persistent problems. Grantmaking supported strengthening human rights protections, advancing government accountability, and improving the reach and quality of justice.