The Huffington Post Investigative Fund - An Independent Nonprofit Journalism Venture

Hat Tips: Contemplating Journalism Contests of the Future

Nick Penniman — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:06:00 +0000

As submission deadlines loom for most of the major journalism awards, we're assessing which of our hats we'd like toss into the various rings. Although we've only been fully operational for about four months now, we feel as if we have much to be proud of. Read more »

Knight Foundation Announces Grant to Investigative Fund

Nick Penniman — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:10:02 +0000

We are most pleased to announce that the Knight Foundation has decided to support the Investigative Fund's work with a $200,000 grant. In these difficult times for the commercial news industry, Knight has been instrumental in seeding new ventures in nonprofit investigative journalism. We are honored that they have chosen to join our other funders.

'No Place for Quiet Truth'

Nick Penniman — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:18:39 +0000

Some of us here have had the pleasure of working with Bill Moyers in the past few years (and the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, which Bill heads, is one of our funders). This commentary about him, by Neal Gabler in the LA Times, beautifully states what many of us here felt when Moyers recently announced that he was mothballing his weekly TV show: Read more »

Our Partners in Journalism

Nick Penniman — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:33:34 +0000

An interesting recent piece in the Chicago Reader details Mother Jones' efforts to create an ongoing reporting collaborative that will collectively cover climate change. Salon, Slate, The Atlantic and others are considering playing along.

It's a noble and worthy effort. In a media world with so few resources and such risk of redundancy, these types of collaborations will help forge a new future for enterprise and investigative reporting. Read more »

I-Fund's Fred Schulte On NPR

Nick Penniman — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:48:39 +0000

Our senior investigative reporter, Fred Schulte, appeared on NPR to discuss the digitizing of medical records with Weekend Edition's Scott Simon, detailing how major technology firms are competing to win contracts. As Schulte explained: Read more »

Welcome To Our New Site!

Nick Penniman — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the Huffington Post Investigative Fund's new Web site.

We are a new nonprofit online venture based in Washington, D.C. Our staff reporters and contributing writers aim to merge the classic watchdog function of the press with the best tools of new media. As financial pressures decimate the investigative reporting ranks at newspapers, magazines and TV stations, we are joining the movement to build new structures and ways of doing investigative journalism. Read more »