Our Members

The Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism & Ideas supports and celebrates quality journalism and storytelling around the world. Our grants and education programs equip journalists with the resources they need to produce outstanding work. Our public events provide a forum for all to discuss the issues shaping the world.

Kloop Media (Kyrgyzstan) runs a news website and media school and produces journalism investigations. Founded in 2007, Kloop gained prominence in the country three years later, when it was one of the leading media outlets to cover the revolution in the country. It received numerous local awards for its Samaragate series of investigations in 2017 that focused on the violations that occurred during Kyrgyzstan’s presidential elections that same year.

The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin provides high-level training, resources, news, and information to journalists from around the world. The Center does this through its annual International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ); its trilingual digital news magazine, LatAm Journalism Review; and its online learning program, Journalism Courses, which offers a variety of free and low-cost training for journalists in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

The Korea Center for Investigative Journalism (KCIJ) is the first nonprofit online investigative reporting organization in South Korea. The center, launched by veteran broadcast journalists, runs Newstapa, an online news website that presents watchdog journalism in video form.

KRIK — Mreža za istraživanje kriminala i korupcije — “Crime and Corruption Reporting Network” is a non-profit organization founded by a team of journalists who for years has been engaged in exposing crime and corruption, and who have received many awards for their work. KRIK is dedicated to revealing organized crime and corruption that permeates all levels of society. “Our goal is to help the readers to better understand how crime and corruption affect their lives.” KRIK seeks to provide in-depth investigative stories, as well as the latest news in this field, and also building an online database of documents.

La Maison Des Reporters (Senegal) is a Senegalese non-profit investigative media. It operates thanks to donations from the public and brings together around a hundred journalists across Senegal. Its objective is to impact public opinion through long-term journalism and quality information.

Lighthouse Reports (Netherlands) builds newsrooms around urgent public interest topics and co-publishes collaborative investigations in multiple formats with its partners. The group uses freedom of information laws, open source reporting, data journalism, and other techniques. Since its founding in 2019, the group has built six newsrooms and worked with 70 media outlets to cover topics like abuse of migrant workers, corruption, and the climate crisis.

The Association of Journalists of Macedonia  (AJM) was founded in 1946. AJM is member of International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). AJM is an independent, non-governmental and non- political party organization whose purpose is to be the protector and promoter of professional standards and freedom of expression.

Makanday is an independent nonprofit newsroom which produces investigative journalism in the public interest. Makanday’s work focuses on transformational stories with “moral force,” and aims to shine a light on the exploitation of the weak by the strong and on the failures of power elites to vindicate the trust placed in them.

Launched in late 1999, Malaysiakini is the country’s first online news website managed by a team of professional journalists. Its mission is to provide independent news and views in a country where the traditional media is tightly controlled by the government.