Our Members

The Marshall Project (US) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the US criminal justice system. Founded in 2015, the group has had an impact on the system through journalism, rendering it more fair, effective, transparent and humane.

The New Humanitarian (Switzerland) reports from the heart of conflicts and disasters to inform prevention and response. Formerly known as IRIN News, its reporting on humanitarian crises helps sound the alarm and gives insight to policymakers, practitioners and others who want to make the world more humane. Its past reports include the crisis in Darfur, resistance of malaria to the Artemisin drug, Boko Haram, and discrimination against Myanmar’s Rohingya people.

The Outlaw Ocean Project (US) is an innovative young watchdog nonprofit that focuses on one of the world’s most critical and under-covered topics: criminal activity on the oceans. It has already collaborated with major outlets like The New Yorker, NBC News, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Al Jazeera, Der Spiegel, and Le Monde, on topics ranging from human trafficking to smuggling to environmental crimes. Outlaw Ocean has even collaborated with artists and musicians, and recently launched a popular podcast series.

The Public Source (Lebanon) is an independent, Beirut-based publication that focuses on structural inequities, and on the rights and plight of poor and dispossessed communities. The site describes itself as offering “uncompromising journalism and critical commentary from the left,” and it is winning awards with its use of diverse sources and sound reporting on pressing issues. It also hosts a secure whistleblower platform, and runs an on-going investigative series on the drivers and impacts of inequality.

The Reporter (Taiwan) is a non-profit media organization founded by The Reporter Foundation and relies on public donation. They strive to produce in-depth reports, track issues at stake and conduct investigative journalism. At the end of 2016, a major investigative report “Far-Sea Fishery & Slavery at Sea” was published and an immediate success. The report hit the headlines of TV news and daily newspapers in Taiwan, and right afterwards, the Taiwanese government publicly apologized for what had happened and promised to change the old policy and regulation.

The Reporters’ Collective (India) is a nonprofit investigative reporting organization focused on covering political economy and governance. The collective collaborates with researchers, data scientists, and experts to produce reportage that is published in media outlets in India and abroad, in multiple languages. Its award-winning stories have sparked debate in India’s Parliament and the courts.

The War Horse News is the only nonprofit newsroom dedicated to investigating both the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs in the United States. Their team publishes fact-based, public service journalism on behalf of more than four million Post-9/11 veterans, their families and fellow citizens. The War Horse is the only military and veteran-focused newsroom to co-publish with Vanity Fair and the Center for Investigative Reporting. Within its first year of publishing their reporting has changed military law and sparked congressional and federal investigations into pandemic sexual exploitation throughout the Defense Department.

Tokyo Investigative Newsroom Tansa is an independent non-profit newsroom dedicated to investigative journalism. Tansa began as The Waseda Chronicle, a project of the Institute for Journalism at Waseda University, on February 1, 2017, with an inaugural issue featuring the series “Journalism for Sale.” It was established as Japan’s first university-based center for investigative journalism. A year after its inception, the Chronicle became independent from Waseda University, becoming Japan’s first investigative journalism NGO. Tansa aims to educate students and foster the next generation of investigative journalists who will contribute to create a critical and innovative journalism in Japan.

The Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism is dedicated to training students for distinguished careers in investigative journalism. Candidates for the Columbia University’s Master of Science degree are able to pursue this specialization, which is platform-neutral and is taken in addition to the traditional M.S. curriculum. Stabile students are required to take skills classes and seminars in investigative reporting. They spend the year learning investigative methods and are required to do an investigative report for their Master’s Project. The Stabile Center provides support for their research and reporting, including paying for travel costs.

Tucson Sentinel (US) is an award-winning regional nonprofit news site, and a recognized pioneer in rebuilding local news in the United States. Based in the US Southwest, it offers bilingual coverage, in English and Spanish, and is frequently referenced by national news outlets. This 12-year-old newsroom is a mission-driven organization committed to independent journalism and investigative reporting. Its investigations into the treatment of migrants in this “borderlands” region of Arizona are especially notable — such as its award-winning revelation on skyrocketing costs to get migrants out of US jails.