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Primary website:
necir-bu.org

Primary Twitter:
@necirbu

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Editor’s Note: Encyclo has not been regularly updated since August 2014, so information posted here is likely to be out of date and may be no longer accurate. It’s best used as a snapshot of the media landscape at that point in time.

The New England Center for Investigative Reporting is a nonprofit investigative journalism project based at Boston University, the first such organization that covers local and regional issues.

The Center was founded in 2009 and is funded by the university as well as a $400,000 Knight Foundation grant. The Center was staffed as of 2012 by four full-time employees, along with the involvement of BU professors and students. As of 2012, it was receiving $340,000 per year from non-foundation sources, just less than half of its total funding.

The Center publishes reports in multiple outlets, with Boston-area media partners including the Boston Globe, New England Cable News, WBUR public radio, and the Christian Science Monitor. The Center also does some contract research work.

The Center’s February 2010 report on sexual assaults on college campuses came under fire for not including statistics from BU.

Peers, allies, & competitors:

Center for Investigative Reporting, California Watch, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, ProPublica

Recent Nieman Lab coverage:

March 19, 2012 / Justin Ellis

State Integrity project builds off a nonprofit news network — The government accountability project from the Center for Public Integrity and Public Radio International was built off local reporting, some from nonprofit sites....

June 20, 2011 / Justin Ellis

Boston investigative nonprofit NECIR finds its path through thinking like a business — It's telling that when Joe Bergantino talks about his job as co-director of the New England Center for Investigative Reporting, he often references the time his father ran a restaurant. Running the nonprofit news outlet ...

Dec. 20, 2010 / Michael Morisy

In an age of free-flowing information, there’s still a role for journalists to provide context — The Washington Post's venerable national security reporter Walter Pincus wants to make one thing clear: He isn't just hopping on the WikiLeaks bandwagon. "I used WikiLeaks before [it] became famous," he said at last week...

Dec. 20, 2010 / Justin Ellis

The changing of the gatekeeper: Adapting to the new roles for journalists, sources and information — We're continuing our recaps of the Secrecy and Journalism in the New Media Age conference that took place at the Nieman Foundation on Thursday with the second panel discussion — entitled "Whither the Gatekeeper? Navig...

Dec. 15, 2010 / Michael Morisy

#Niemanleaks on Thursday: After WikiLeaks, a flood of new questions — While WikiLeaks' recent document dumps have answered questions large and small (How many civilians have been killed in Iraq? Does Muammar al-Gaddafi prefer blondes or brunettes?), the organization's controversial brand o...

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Primary author: Mark Coddington. Main text last updated: October 31, 2013.

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