Our Members

The Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) is the national voice of Canadian journalists. It is committed to protecting the public’s right to know and dedicated to promoting excellence in journalism from the university classroom to the national stage. It also organizes an annual awards program that recognizes the best in Canadian journalism, with a particular focus on journalism that is investigative in nature.

The Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism (CCIJ) (US) brings together investigative reporters, visual storytellers, and data scientists as equal partners to carry out ongoing investigations into key global issues. Working with and learning from people, families, and organizations in vulnerable communities, we have commitments to training and to working with journalists who might not otherwise have an opportunity to participate in global projects.

Center for Investigative Journalism of Montenegro is a non-governmental foundation established by Vijesti TV and Vijesti Daily, dedicated to practicing and promoting investigative journalism of the public interest by latest means and up to internationally recognized professional standards. “Our goal is to keep giving the people of Montenegro otherwise hidden or unavailable information they need to act and make decisions.”

The Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia (CINS) is a non-profit organization dedicated to investigative journalism in accordance with state-of-the-art, internationally accepted standards and using new tools, techniques and knowledge of the profession.

SCOOP-Macedonia is nongovernmental and non-profitable organization aimed to promote, support and stimulate investigative journalism. The purpose of the organization is to support the journalists in their everyday work, with financial or professional help, needed for development of investigative journalism in the country, region, but also globally.

The Center for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) in Nepal was established under the umbrella of non-profit Himal association. In its initial years, CIJ concentrated on producing good investigations through a mentoring system. Later, the CIJ developed as a training centre, helping develop a strong team of journalists all over the country.

The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIN) in Sarajevo is unique in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the first organization of its kind to be established in Balkans. CIN is dedicated to investigative reporting, aimed toward providing fair and unbiased information, based on evidences and solid proof, to BiH citizens who need to make educated decisions. CIN’s work focuses on organized crime and corruption and the negative effect these have on the lives of ordinary citizens. They produce investigative projects and stories on topics that include education, health, sports, employment, politics, illegal trading in tobacco and drugs, illegal drugs and documents, and financial fraud.

The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) believes journalism that moves citizens to action is an essential pillar of democracy. Since 1977, CIR has relentlessly pursued and revealed injustices that otherwise would remain hidden from the public eye. Today, it is upholding this legacy and looking forward, working at the forefront of journalistic innovation to produce important stories that make a difference and engage the audience. Reveal – its website, public radio program, podcast and social media platform – is where it publishes its multiplatform work.

Center for Investigative Reporting in Pakistan is an independent not-for-profit organization. Registered under Trust Act, the Center is the first of its kind in Pakistan and promises a radical change on the map of journalism.

Center for Investigative Reporting is the first organization aimed at promoting excellence in investigative journalism in Sri Lanka. The center aims to produce high-quality investigative stories, deliver training, and contribute to the development of a highly-skilled and ethical community of watchdog reporters.

The Center for Public Integrity was founded in 1989 by Charles Lewis. It’s one of the country’s oldest and largest nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative news organizations. Its mission: To enhance democracy by revealing abuses of power, corruption and betrayal of trust by powerful public and private institutions, using the tools of investigative journalism.

The Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) is a charity that champions critical, in-depth reporting and the defence of the public interest. It came into being in 2003 to address a deepening crisis in investigative reporting. The primary mission of the CIJ is to provide a centre of excellence in the training of professional journalists, to ensure that high professional standards in investigative reporting are raised and maintained.  

Founded in 2011, the mission of the Centre for Investigative Journalism is the practice and promotion of investigative in Slovenia, a Balkan country of two million. The CPNS aims to boost the education and training of journalists, to publish investigative stories, and to support cross-border collaboration. The CPNS staff is best known for their groundbreaking trilogy — based on declassified records — of what happened to the vast trove of arms left by the breakup of Yugoslav military.

The Centre for Investigative Journalism is independent and non-profit organisation to support and strengthen in-depth and investigative journalism in India. It was founded in 2014 and is registered as a trust with the government of India and is headquartered in India’s national capital, New Delhi.  The primary mission of the CIJ is to provide a centre of excellence for the training of journalists, to promote best practices of journalism, to raise the standard of critical reporting to a high professional level and to build a network of watchdog journalists in India.

Centre for Investigative Journalism Malawi is an independent centre of investigative journalists established in 2013.  It is committed to promoting effective, ethical and original reporting through disbursement of small investigative grants, mentorship, facilitating access to information resources that can enhance the quality of investigative stories, promoting dialogue among investigative journalists within Malawi and abroad as well as organizing expert training in investigative journalism, foreign internships and career talks in journalism training institutions.

The Centre for Journalism Innovation & Development (CJID), formerly known as Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ), is a non-governmental organization, founded in 2014, to promote a truly independent media landscape that advances fundamental human rights, good governance and accountability in West Africa through investigative journalism, open data and civic technology.

The Centre for Media and Development Initiatives (MDI) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to initiate and accelerate media and development initiatives in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. It has been a leading NGO in development of investigative journalism in Vietnam, with high-profiled and well-respected international workshops and training activities for Vietnam’s top investigative journalists and editors. MDI’s purpose is to serve the public interest by harnessing the power of communications to inform, debate and educate.

The Centro de Investigación de la Comunicación (CINCO) is a research center specializing in democracy, media studies, and investigative journalism. CINCO works closely with the TV magazine “Esta Semana” and the digital newspaper Confidencial (www.confidencial.com.ni) to promote professional training for investigative journalism. Confidencial and “Esta Semana” have become references of quality journalism in Nicaragua and Central America.  

Centro De Investigación Periodistica (CIPER) — Chilean Center for Investigative Journalism and Information — is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to investigative journalism and the pursuit of transparency. Created in May 2007, CIPER believes that the right of citizens to be informed is fundamental to democracy, so people are able to hold power to account.

Centro de Jornalismo Investigativo (Mozambique) is the first non-profit investigative journalism newsroom in Mozambique. Founded by a team of journalists and activists, it aims to bring journalism back to its essence: public service. To achieve that vision, it organizes workshops and seminars in order to promote the knowledge and practical skills of investigative journalism.

The Centro de Periodismo Investigativo (CPIPR) is a non-profit organization that promotes investigative journalism in Puerto Rico. Founded in 2007, it was the first non-profit group wholly dedicated to investigative journalism in the Caribbean. The CPIPR has done award-winning investigations, works for freedom of information in Puerto Rico, and trains young journalists. Also, the Center has an active legal program in which it uses the law to fight for documents and information access.

Centro Latinoamericano de Investigación Periodística (Costa Rica) has coordinated groundbreaking projects on public interest issues in Latin America, utilizing cross-border collaboration, data journalism, and on-the-ground reporting. Formed in early 2020, CLIP focuses on complex investigations and reporter development, and has already achieved significant impact in exposing disinformation, environmental exploitation, and abuses of power.

Coda Media (United States) is an award-winning non-profit newsroom dedicated to journalism that breaks through the noise of the news cycle and tells stories in context. Its global team of multimedia journalists investigates the trends that are shaping the world, stays on stories long after they have left the spotlight, and empowers readers to see the connections between seemingly unrelated crises.

Community of Investigative Journalists – Foundation 19/29 is an international NGO registered in 2015 in Prague, the Czech Republic by two independent Russian journalists. Its goals include: providing professional, financial, and legal assistance to independent Russian journalists in their investigations; helping investigative reporters and bloggers to develop their professional skills, using new media technologies, putting together professional journalism skills and potential of citizen journalism and social media to achieve high-standard broad investigative reporting. The group was formerly known as Foundation 19/29, but after they were included in the Russian government’s “foreign agents” list they re-registered in Prague while keeping some of their activities in Russia.

CONNECTAS is a non-profit journalism project that promotes the production, sharing, training, and dissemination of information with a transnational perspective on key issues for development in the Americas. CONNECTAS aims to create alliances with journalism and media organizations, and operating as a logistical hub that provides technical and professional support, facilitates training programs, and does fundraising for activities related to its mission.

With more than 100 members in Colombia, CdR is the first organization to promote investigative journalism in its country. The work started in 2007 with training activities and now it has widen to several areas such as the creation of a database with more than 2 million data, a digital media study, the annual congress on investigative journalism, publications and more.

Convoca is an investigative journalism association made up of reporters, data analysts, and developers. The team research, teach, and collaborate, working in partnership with other independent initiatives, the media, and universities both in Peru and abroad. Convoca advocates the “intelligent” use of databases and a multidisciplinary approach to investigations and digital narratives.

CORRECT!V, based in Essen, was founded in 2014 and is the first non-profit investigative newsroom in Germany. Its goal is to give citizens access to information by making investigative and informative journalism affordable and accessible to media organizations throughout Germany.

Crime and Corruption Reporting Network — LUPA (Montenegro) is a non-profit association based on the promotion and development of investigative journalism in Montenegro. The association is founded by a group of independent and professional journalists with broad experience working in the media. It focuses on the research of organized crime and corruption in the country and abroad.

The Crimean Center for Investigative Reporting conducts journalistic investigations and publishes them at its website investigator.org.ua, produces “National Security Issue” TV Program, as well as organizes trainings on investigative reporting for journalists coming from Crimea, Ukraine, and Belarus.

The Czech Centre for Investigative Journalism (České centrum pro investigativní žurnalistiku) is a non-governmental non-profit organization founded in 2013 by group of Czech journalists. Its mission is to take part in and promote cross-border investigative journalism projects, train investigative journalists, and address the need of local journalism to follow new media trends and standards.