Our Members

The Civio Foundation (Fundación Ciudadana Civio) is an independent, non-profit organization based in Spain which monitors public authorities, reports to all citizens and lobbies to achieve true and effective transparency within institutions. Civio undertakes journalistic investigations and creates innovative tools which gives the public access to unpublished data.

Fundacja Reporterow (FR) is the first nonprofit journalistic organization in Poland entirely focused on independent, cross-border, investigative journalism. FR was founded in 2010 by award-winning Polish investigative journalists. The organization’s mission is the development of investigative journalism, promoting journalism as a public good and publishing high-quality stories in the public interest. FR is a member of professional networks (GIJN, OCCRP), our reporters publish stories in Polish and English. Since 2017 Fundacja runs vsquare.org, a platform for cross-border investigative stories from the Visegrad region
In 2021 Fundacja launched FRONTSTORY.pl, an investigative, data-driven outlet, addressed to the Polish audience.

Global Press (US) is an international news organization that creates a more informed and inclusive world by training and employing local women journalists to report news in some of the world’s least-covered places. Its stories are published on the award-winning multilingual news publication Global Press Journal. By training local women to become world-class journalists, Global Press reframes skewed global narratives, revitalizes communities and repairs the lack of gender and racial diversity in newsrooms.

The Global Reporting Centre (GRC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to highlighting neglected stories around the world. Housed at the University of British Columbia, the organization has grown out of the successful International Reporting Program at the University of British Columbia’s School of Journalism, which trains journalism graduate students in global reporting. The GRC works with leading reporters and media organizations to produce solution-oriented journalism, and seeks new and innovative ways to produce and distribute global news.

Howard Center for Investigative Journalism (United States) at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication helps train the next generation of accountability journalists by producing multimedia projects on topics of national concern. One of two Howard Centers in the US funded by the Scripps Howard Foundation, it is also the capstone experience for graduate students in the only US master of journalism degree program focused exclusively on investigative reporting.

The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland is a multidisciplinary program focused on training the next generation of investigative reporters by producing national and international journalism projects. Students learn to dive deep into data, ask tough questions of those in power, produce innovative reporting tools and present the facts they uncover using multiple storytelling techniques. We collaborate with professional news organizations on both reporting and distribution of our work to reach the broadest possible audience.

IDL-Reporteros, based in Lima, is an independent program of the Instituto de Defensa Legal (IDL), Peru’s premier human rights organization. Since its creation in 2009, IDL-Reporteros has published more than 500 investigations on a range of topics from drug trafficking to the extractive industries. Its stories include an investigation into corruption that forced the vice president to step down, as well as a series on fraud in the fishing industry that brought about important regulatory changes.  

IHECS Academy is a nonprofit lifelong training center based in Brussels, Belgium and is located at the journalism and communication school IHECS (Institut des Hautes Etudes des Communications Sociales). They provide training in the fields of communication and journalism to an audience of both students and professionals. IHECS Academy offers a 15-ECTS long-term investigative reporting program (69 hours) to professional journalists.

IndiaSpend was founded in the wake of a mass anti-corruption movement in India led by activist Anna Hazare in 2011. IndiaSpend picked up where the agitation left off, with the larger objective of bringing data into the highly emotion charged debates on governance, transparency and accountability.