Correctiv

CORRECT!V
Founded 2014
Founder David Schraven, Christian Humborg; The Brost Foundation (Anneliese Brost’s legacy)
Type non-profit
Focus Investigative Journalism
Location
Area served
abuse of power, corruption, environment, education, health, social justice, right-wing extremism, religious extremism
Method Foundation and Member Supported
Key people
 David Schraven (publisher), Christian Humborg (executive director), David Crawford (senior reporter)
Employees
20
Volunteers
>500
Website correctiv.org/en

The CORRECT!V (or CORRECTIV) is a German nonprofit investigative journalism newsroom whose stated goal is "to give citizens access to information."[1] With about 20 staff members, CORRECT!V is the only nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative center in Germany. CORRECT!V describes itself as an organization that is "one of the many answers to the media crisis."[1] CORRECT!V releases its reports in English, German and Russian languages via its web site to media outlets throughout Europe and around the globe.

History

CORRECT!V was initiated in 2014 by the charitable organization “CORRECTIV – Recherchen für die Gesellschaft” (“CORRECTIV – Research for Society”) based in Essen and has been by the Brost Foundation with a grant of €1 million per year for three years.[2]

Organizational structure

Funding

CORRECT!V is a nonprofit organization and exempt from taxation under German law. The funding comes entirely from charitable foundations as well as membership fees and donations from the users and readers. CORRECT!V does not depend on sales or advertising. All donations of more than €1000 are listed on the website. CORRECT!V is "nonprofit, independent and investigative".[1]

Board of directors

David Schraven is the publisher and Christian Humborg the executive director. Markus Grill is the editor in chief.[3]

Ideology

CORRECT!V wants "to make investigative and informative journalism affordable and accessible to media organizations throughout Germany."[1] For this reason, CORRECT!V is initiating an education program to pass on the methods of investigative journalism that could help to empower citizens to gain access to information and promote transparency.

Reports

CORRECT!V reported on "The System of Putin" (Dirty Money and State Collapse), "TTIP - The Deal" (Investigative, Analytic, Interactive: All about the Free Trade), "Flight MH17" (Searching for the truth), "The Invisibles" (Hundreds of thousands live in Germany without papers), "Weisse Wölfe" (A graphic investigation into the Nazi underground), "Court Donations" (How Judges And Prosecutors Hand Out Millions Every Year With Almost No Oversight), "Mafia in Africa" (How the mafia infiltrates the African economy), "Mafia" (Stories about the Mafia: drugs, dirty money, murder and investigations), "Deadly Superbugs" (An investigation of one of the largest health risks of the next decades), "Football Doping" (Everything about Doping and Painkillers in Football), "Generation E" (The big migration from South to North), Couchsurfing, "Business Cheats" (How Fraudsters Turn Forged Bonds Into Cash), "Das Olivenöl-Kartell", etc.

Flight MH17

CORRECT!V described the Flight MH17 as one of the greatest war crimes of modern times. Over several months it gathered facts, investigated in eastern Ukraine and Russia, and found witnesses to the missile launch, unveiled a clear chain of evidence that MH17 was downed by a BUK missile ground-launched by a unit of the 53rd Russian Air Defense Brigade from Kursk. The brigade unit operated in mid July on Ukrainian territory without displaying national emblems.[4] [5]

Praise

Awards

In 2015, CORRECT!V won a Grimme Online Award for their investigation "MH17 – Die Suche nach der Wahrheit".[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "About CORRECT!V". CORRECTIV. Retrieved 2015-08-21.
  2. ↑ Caroline O’Donovan (17 July 2014). "Germany is getting a data-centric nonprofit newsroom and hoping to build new models for news". NiemanLab. Harvard University. Retrieved 2015-08-21.
  3. ↑ "Editorial Staff". CORRECTIV. Retrieved 2015-08-21.
  4. ↑ "Flight MH17". CORRECTIV. Retrieved 2015-08-21.
  5. ↑ ""Correctiv" und MH17 – eine Analyse". WIR!. Retrieved 2015-08-21.
  6. ↑ "Preisträger 2015". Retrieved 2015-08-21.

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