Development
First Look Media and Democracy Fund to provide $12M for investigative journalism
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Grantees include the Center for Investigative Reporting, the Center for Public Integrity and ProPublica.
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Center for Investigative Reporting launches “I Files” YouTube channel
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The Berkeley, Calif.-based Center for Investigative Reporting unveiled its new YouTube channel, The I Files, today. The channel, funded by the Knight Foundation, will be curated by CIR and will repost investigative-reporting videos from a wide assortment of content partners. Among the partners is the Investigative News Network, a consortium of 60 nonprofit news organizations that includes American University’s Investigative Reporting Workshop and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Among CIR’s for-profit partners: The BBC, ABC News, The New York Times and Al Jazeera. The channel will include videos from freelance journalists as well.