Mission Statement
The CIJ is a club for professional and free-lance reporters who are trying to preserve the critically wounded art of investigative journalism. Its mission is to share ideas for combating moral and financial threats against investigative reporting and strong, meaningful newspaper and online beat coverage. The CIJ is also looking for ways to support quality writing and ensure that powerful enterprise pieces continue to be part of public intellectual life. The CIJ can stand in as a publisher for critical investigative reports, books and e-books by pooling resources of its journalist-members, particularly in the arena of offering media exposure.
Coming soon: original news stories by C.I.J. members -
Fall 2015!
“More than any other medium, newspapers have been our eyes on the state, our check on private abuses, our civic alarm systems. It is true that they have often failed to perform those functions as well as they should have done. But whether they can continue to perform them at all is now in doubt.”
— Paul Starr, The New Republic
"I feel the Republic is actually in danger. There is no guard now on assessing anything qualitatively — of pulling back the veil behind what an official will tell you is progress, or is valid or legitimate as policy ... there is an absolute dis-incentive to tell the truth."
- David Simon, former reporter for The Baltimore Sun.
