The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
(TBIJ)
founding 2009
Seat London United KingdomUnited KingdomUnited Kingdom 
main emphasis journalism
method Investigative journalism
people Christo Hird (Editor-in-Chief), Elaine and David Potter (Patrons)
Website thebureauinvestigates.com

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) is a British journalists' associationfounded in 2009for "investigative journalism in the public interest". It was founded to strengthen investigative journalism, since the conventional media are no longer able to uncover abuse of power and corruption due to economic constraints. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism therefore pursues two goals: Firstly, thorough investigative reports are to be produced for multimedia platforms, and secondly, innovative and sustainable financingmodelsfor investigative journalism are to be researched.

Organization and financing

On June 5, 2009, the Investigations Fund was founded in London , which shortly thereafter received 2.3 million euros from the Potter Foundation of the philanthropist couple Elaine and David Potter to finance the TBIJ association. The TBIJ is supervised by the Center for Investigative Journalism at City University London and counts on the collaboration of prominent writers such as Nick Davies and Seymour Hersh .

In September 2009, Iain Overton was named TBIJ's first managing director. As of November 2009, the recruitment of up to 20 journalists began.

editorial staff

Board of Directors

Advisory Board

Reports

The first report, which ran over a period of several weeks, was launched on April 24, 2010 on the subject of “Public Sector Wages”. 4–5 large reports are planned per year. In contrast to the fee-free Creative Commons model based on the ProPublica model in the USA, the reports are to be sold to newspapers and magazines in order to finance TBIJ itself in the long term.

In August 2011, TBIJ published a report on the drone strikes in Pakistan . The office expanded its coverage of drone strikes to include Yemen, Somalia and Afghanistan through July 2019.

Newsnight scandal

In late 2012, then editor-in-chief Angus Stickler left TBIJ after falsely suspecting Alistair McAlpine of child sexual abuse. The then managing director Ian Overton also resigned.

See also

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ^ Paul McNally: UK investigative journalism bureau wins £ 2m grant ( Memento June 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). In: Press Gazette. September 18, 2009
  2. ^ Roy Greenslade: Investigative bureau appoints Overton . In: The Guardian . September 21, 2009
  3. ↑ Laura Oliver: Bureau of Investigative Journalism to recruit up to 20 journalists ( Memento of November 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). In: Journalism.co.uk. November 4, 2009
  4. ↑ Public pay: just how many earn £ 100k? . In: The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. April 24, 2010
  5. ^ Roy Greenslade: £ 2m boost for independent investigative journalism bureau . In: The Guardian . July 17, 2009
  6. ↑ Sven Hansen: Neither clean nor precise. In: the daily newspaper . August 12, 2011, accessed August 12, 2011 .
  7. ↑ Chris Cole: After Five Years of British Drone Operations: Fundamental Facts We Shouldn't Know. In: Peter Strutynski (ed.): Killing by remote control. Combat drones in the global shadow war . Vienna: Promedia. Pp. 45-50 ISBN 978-3-85371-366-2
  8. ↑ Drone warfare , reports, website of the TBIJ, accessed July 17, 2019