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Center for Public Integrity

May 10, 2023

The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) is an American nonprofit investigative journalism organization whose stated mission is "to reveal abuses of power, corruption and dereliction of duty by powerful public and private institutions in order to cause them to operate with honesty, integrity, accountability and to put the public interest first."[1] With over 50 staff members, the CPI is one of the largest nonprofit investigative centers in America.[2] It won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.[3]

The Center for Public Integrity
FoundedMarch 30, 1989; 34 years ago (1989-03-30)
FounderCharles Lewis
Type501(c)(3)
54-1512177
FocusInvestigative journalism
Location
MethodFoundation and Member Supported
Key people
Paul Cheung (CEO)
WebsitePublicIntegrity.org

The CPI has been described as an independent,[4][5][6][7][8] watchdog group.[6][9] The Center releases its reports via its website to media outlets throughout the U.S. and around the globe. In 2004, CPI's The Buying of the President book was on The New York Times bestseller list for three months.[10] As of December 21, 2018, CPI was rated as 3 out of 4 stars overall by Charity Navigator, an independent nonprofits evaluator.[11]

Mission

The mission of the center is "to protect democracy and inspire change using investigative reporting that exposes betrayals of the public trust by powerful interests".[12]

History

1989–2004

CPI was founded on March 30, 1989, by Charles Lewis, a former producer for ABC News and CBS News 60 Minutes.[12][13][14] By the late 1980s Lewis observed that fewer resources—time, money and space—were being invested in investigative reporting in the United States by established news outlets and major publications.[15] In his book entitled 935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Decline of America's Moral Integrity Lewis recounted how he recruited two trusted journalists, Alejandro Benes and Charles Piller—whom he had met through his television work— to serve on the board of directors of the nascent CPI. All three had grown dissatisfied with what was being done in the name of investigative journalism by established news organizations.[15] They chose the name public integrity as a way of underlying the "ultimate purpose of investigative journalism" which is "to hold those in power accountable and to inform the public about significant distortions of the truth."[12][16] In their tenth anniversary Annual Report Piller described their first meetings in their "Boardroom—the cheap seats at the Baltimore Orioles game.

In May 1990, Lewis used the money he had raised and his house as collateral to open an 1,800-square-foot (170 m2) office in Washington, D.C.[14] In its first year, the CPI's budget was $200,000.[10] In 1996, CPI launched its first website, although CPI did not begin to publish reports online until 1999.[10]

In August 2000 the CPI published a story entitled "Cheney Led Halliburton to Feast at Federal Trough: State Department Questioned Deal With Firm Linked to Russian Mob", in which the authors argued that while Dick Cheney was CEO of Halliburton—from 1995 to 2000—the company received "$3.8 billion in federal contracts and taxpayer-insured loans".[15][17]

In 2001, Global Integrity, an international project, was launched to systematically track and report on openness, accountability and the rule of law in various countries. It has since been incorporated independently.[18]

2005–2007

Lewis served as CPI's director until January 2005. As of his departure, CPI had published 14 books and more than 250 investigative reports. In 2005, CPI had a staff of 40 full-time Washington-based reporters who partnered with a network of writers and editors in more than 25 countries.[10] Years later, Lewis said he decided to leave his position at CPI because "he didn't want it to become 'an institution that was Chuck's Excellent Adventure".[19] Lewis' departure surprised and upset philanthropists Herb and Marion Sandler, who had partially funded the CPI's activities.[20]

In December 2004, CPI's board of directors chose television journalist Roberta Baskin as Lewis's successor. Baskin came to CPI after directing consumer investigations for ABC News's 20/20 and serving as Washington correspondent for PBS's NOW with Bill Moyers.[21] Lewis wrote that "most of the Center's carefully assembled, very talented, senior staff had quit by the fall of 2005".[10]

In September 2005, CPI announced that it had discovered a pattern of plagiarism in the past work of a staff writer for CPI's 2002 book Capitol Offenders. CPI responded by hiring a copy editor to review all work, issuing a revised version of Capitol Offenders, sending letters of apology to all reporters whose work was plagiarized, authoring a new corrections policy, and returning an award the book received from Investigative Reporters and Editors.[22] He went on to work for a political consulting firm that specializes in opposition research.[23][24] In March 2007, he told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel that the center's official version "is not accurate in telling the full story of why I left the center," but did not elaborate.

Baskin led the organization until May 24, 2006.[25]

Baskin was followed by Wendell Rawls Jr., who was named the center's interim executive director.[26] Rawls had previously worked as the center's managing director — being named to that post by Baskin on December 19, 2005. He joined CPI in August 2005.[27]

2007–present

In 2007, Rawls was succeeded by William Buzenberg, a vice president at American Public Media/Minnesota Public Radio.[28] Buzenberg was first interviewed for the position in 2004 during the hiring process that ultimately led to the selection of his predecessor, Roberta Baskin.[19]

According to a report by Lewis, "the number of full-time staff was reduced by one-third" in early 2007.[10] By December 2007, the number of full-time staff had dropped to 25, down from a high of 40.[19] At the time, Buzenberg said "It's a great, great place, but I will not mislead you... [Lewis] quite frankly left the center in great shape financially, but when you have a visionary who leaves, how do you continue? 'With difficulty' is the answer."[19]

Baskin publicly disputed Buzenberg's claims in a letter to the American Journalism Review where she wrote, "contrary to the statement from current Executive Director Bill Buzenberg, the center was not left 'in great shape financially' by my predecessor. Much of the money raised during the year prior to my tenure was used to offset budget overruns on several previous projects. I replaced our director of development and made fundraising my number one priority, much as Buzenberg has done. As a rookie fundraiser, I take pride in the fact that I was able to raise millions of dollars."[22]

In 2008, Lewis reflected on the transition period following his resignation and said, "I regret what happened to my staff and the condition of the Center. It's no secret it had a less than enviable few years. But that's one of the reasons I thought it was important to leave. I had founded it and run it for 15 years, and at some point the founder does have to leave the building...I don't regret it, I think it was important that I left, but I do feel badly about the hardship it brought to people I think the world of."[29]

In 2010, The Huffington Post Investigative Fund merged into the CPI, and eight Huffington Post journalists moved to CPI.[2][30]

In 2011, CPI eliminated 10 staff positions in order to compensate for a $2 million budget shortfall. Buzenberg and other senior staffers also took salary cuts. CPI board chairman Bruce Finzen said the budget would be "reduced between $2 million and $3 million, more like $2.5 million. The budget for next year will be in the 6 to 7 million range." As of 2012, there were over 50 staffers at CPI, making it one of the largest nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative centers in the country.[2]

In April 2011, with support from the Knight Foundation, CPI launched iWatchnews.org as its main investigative reporting website.[31] In August 2012, CPI stopped using iWatchnews.org and returned to its original domain.[32]

Buzenberg stepped down from CPI at the end of 2014, at which time Peter Bale was named CEO.[33] In November 2016, Bale resigned from the center to "pursue other international media opportunities" and John Dunbar assumed the role of chief executive officer.[34]

In 2019, Susan Smith Richardson was named chief executive officer, becoming the first African-American CEO in the center's history.[35][36]

Organizational structure

Funding

A list of CPI's donors may be found on the organization's official website.[37] CPI's annual reports are also available on the organization's website.[14] CPI ceased accepting contributions from corporations and labor unions in 1996.[14] In its first year, CPI's budget was reported to be $200,000.[10] In 2010, CPI had $9,264,997 in revenue and $7,708,349 in expenses.[38]

CPI reports receiving foundation support from a number of foundations, including the Sunlight Foundation, the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Omidyar Network, the Open Society Foundations, and the Pew Charitable Trusts.[37] The Barbra Streisand Foundation reports that it has funded CPI.[39]

In July 2014, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation donated $2.8 million to CPI to launch a new project focused on state campaign finance. According to the International Business Times, "as CPI was negotiating the Arnold grant, Arnold's name was absent from a CPI report on pension politics". Arnold has spent at least $10 million on a campaign to roll back pension benefits for public workers.[40][41]

Board of directors

CPI's board of directors includes Elspeth Revere, Bill Kovach, Ninan Chacko, Bruce A. Finzen, Arianna Huffington, Richard M. Lobo, Craig Newmark, Gilbert Omenn, Dan Emmett, Matthew Granade, Jennifer 8. Lee, James A. Kiernan, Steve Kroft, Hendrik-Jan Laseur, Susan Loewenberg, Bevis Longsteth, Olivia Ma, Scott Siegler, Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, and Matt Thompson.[42] Past board directors include Christiane Amanpour, Sheila Coronel, and Molly Bingham.

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

Main article: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
 
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) logo

In 1997, CPI launched the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). This international network, based in Washington, D.C.,[43] includes over 200 investigative reporters in over 90 countries and territories.[44] Gerard Ryle is the director of ICIJ.[45] Its website publishes The Global Muckraker.[46] ICIJ is focused on issues such as "cross-border crime, corruption, and the accountability of power".[47] In 2013, the consortium reported having 160 member journalists from 60 countries.[47] The ICIJ brings together teams of international journalists for different investigations (over 80 for Offshore leaks). It organized the bi-annual Daniel Pearl Awards for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting. ICIJ staff members include Michael Hudson, while the Advisory Committee in 2013 included Bill Kovach, Phillip Knightley, Gwen Lister, and Goenawan Mohamad.[47]

Panama Papers

Main article: Panama Papers

In April 2016, the ICIJ made headlines worldwide with the announcement that it and the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung had received a leaked set of 11.5 million confidential documents from a secret source, created by the Panamanian corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca. The Panama Papers provided detailed information on more than 214,000 offshore companies, including the identities of shareholders and directors.[48] The documents named the leaders of five countries — Argentina, Iceland, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine and the United Arab Emirates — as well as government officials, close relatives and close associates of various heads of government of more than 40 other countries, including Brazil, China, France, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Malta, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Syria and the United Kingdom.[49]

The ICIJ and Süddeutsche Zeitung received the Panama Papers in 2015 and distributed them to about 400 journalists at 107 media organizations in more than 80 countries. The first news reports based on the set, along with 149 of the documents themselves,[50] were published on April 3, 2016.[51] Among other planned disclosures, the full list of companies is to be released in early May 2016.[52]

Paradise Papers

Main article: Paradise Papers

In November 2017, ICIJ launched a coordinated worldwide release of investigative reports based on the Paradise Papers,[53] documents leaked to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung on offshore tax havens - tax "paradises" - from offshore law firm Appleby.

Ideology

A 2012 The New York Times editorial described the CPI as a "nonpartisan watchdog group".[6]

In relation to a story in February 1996, CPI was characterized as a "liberal group" by the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times.[54][55] Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a progressive media watchdog, has described CPI as "progressive."[56]

Reports

CPI's first report, America's Frontline Trade Officials, reported that nearly half of White House trade officials studied over a fifteen-year period became lobbyists for countries or overseas corporations after retirement. According to Lewis, it "prompted a Justice Department ruling, a General Accounting Office report, a Congressional hearing, was cited by four presidential candidates in 1992 and was partly responsible for an executive order in January 1993 by President Clinton, placing a lifetime ban on foreign lobbying by White House trade officials."[10][15]

CPI Fat Cat Hotel 1996

Main article: Lincoln Bedroom for contributors controversy

In 1996, CPI released a report called Fat Cat Hotel: How Democratic High-Rollers Are Rewarded with Overnight Stays at the White House. This report, written by Margaret Ebrahim, won an award from the Society of Professional Journalists. The report was an examination of the connection between overnight stays in the Lincoln Bedroom during the Clinton presidency and financial contributions to the Democratic Party as well as the Clinton re-election campaign.[57]

CPI Windfalls of War 2003

In 2003, CPI published Windfalls of War, a report arguing that campaign contributions to George W. Bush affected the allocation of reconstruction contracts in Afghanistan and Iraq.[58] Slate ran a piece arguing that due to a statistically insignificant correlation coefficient between campaign donations and winning contracts, "CPI has no evidence to support its allegations."[59]

CPI LobbyWatch 2005

CPI first reports on LobbyWatch were released in 2005.[25] In their January 2005 publication entitled "Pushing Prescriptions" CPI revealed that major pharmaceutical companies was the number one lobbyist in the United States spending $675 million over seven years on lobbying. They continued with this series in 2005 revealing how pharmaceutical companies had contacts even within the Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Trade Representatives.

CPI Who's Behind the Financial Meltdown? 2009

CPI's report, Who's Behind the Financial Meltdown?,[60] looking at the roots of the global financial crisis, was featured in numerous media outlets, leading Columbia Journalism Review to ask, "Why hasn't a newspaper or magazine done this?"[61]

CPI The Climate Change Lobby Explosion 2009

More than 100 newspapers, magazines, wire services and websites cited CPI's report, The Climate Change Lobby Explosion, an analysis of Senate records showing that the number of climate lobbyists had grown by three hundred percent to four for every Senator.[62]

Tobacco Underground 2010

Tobacco Underground, an ongoing project tracing the global trade in smuggled cigarettes,[63] produced by CPI's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, was honored with the prestigious Renner Award for Crime Reporting from Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), and the Overseas Press Club Award for Best Online International Reporting.[citation needed] The Tobacco Underground Project was funded by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health. It is a cooperative project between the Center for Public Integrity's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) with journalists in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, Russia and Ukraine. Journalists in Brazil, Belgium, Canada, China, Italy, Paraguay and the UK also participated.[64] that won the Overseas Press Club Award and Investigative Reporters and Editors's Tom Renner Award for crime reporting.[65][66]

Sexual Assault on Campus 2010

In 2010, CPI partnered with National Public Radio to publish "Sexual Assault on Campus",[67] a report which showcases the failures of colleges and government agencies to prevent sexual assaults and resolve sexual assault cases.[68]

Toxic Clout 2013

The year long investigation by CPI, Toxic Clout, produced in partnership with the PBS NewsHour, "unmasked the deep, sometimes hidden, connections entangling the chemical industry, scientists and regulators, revealing the industry's sway and the public's peril."[69] Investigative journalists examined the work of the then California Department of Public Health's John Morgan who had been working since 1995, to debunk allegations that chromium had contributed to the cancer cluster attributed to Hinkley groundwater contamination. The CPI found glaring weaknesses in Morgan's analysis that challenge the validity of his findings. "In his first study, he dismisses what others see as a genuine cancer cluster in Hinkley. In his latest analysis, he excludes people who were exposed to the worst contamination."[70] PBS Newshour broadcast the series which included "EPA Contaminated by Conflict of Interest", "Ouster of Scientist from EPA Panel Shows Industry Clout", starting in early 2013.[71][72] CPI published a series of articles including "Toxic clout: how Washington works (badly)" and "How industry scientists stalled action on carcinogen."[73][74]

Secrecy for Sale: offshore accounts 2013 to present

In 2013, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists released the results of a 15-month-long investigation based on 260 gigabytes of data regarding the ownership of secret offshore bank accounts. The data was obtained by Gerard Ryle as a result of his investigation into the Firepower scandal. The ICIJ partnered with the Guardian, BBC, Le Monde, The Washington Post, SonntagsZeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung and NDR to produce an investigative series on offshore banking.[75][76] ICIJ and partnering agencies used the ownership information to report on government corruption across the globe, tax avoidance schemes used by wealthy people, the use of secret offshore accounts in Ponzi Schemes, the active role of major banks in facilitating secrecy for their clients, and the strategies and actors that make these activities possible.[77]

In early 2014 the ICIJ revealed as part of their "Offshore Leaks" that relatives of China's political and financial elite were among those using offshore tax havens to store wealth.[78]

Science for Sale

The 2016 series entitled Science for Sale included, the February 8, 2016 article "About Science for Sale",[79] the February 8, 2016 article "Meet the 'rented white coats' who defend toxic chemicals", the February 10, 2016 article "Making a cancer cluster disappear", the February 16, 2016 article "Ford spent $40 million to reshape asbestos science", the February 18, 2016 article "Brokers of junk science?",[80] and the March 31, 2016 article "Senators seek better conflict disclosures for scientific articles."[81] In this investigative series which was co-published with Vice, journalist revealed how research backed by industry has opened debates on asbestos and arsenic with some of the paid scientists saying that "there are 'safe' levels of asbestos despite statements to the contrary from the World Health Organization and many other august bodies".[81]

Professional fundraisers for veterans

In December 2017, CPI journalist Sarah Kleiner published a report on professional fundraisers who use telemarketing to collect donations for US military veterans, then keep 90 percent of the funds collected.[82] According to the December 12, 2017 article, Brian Arthur Hampton co-founded two Falls Church, Virginia-based non-profit organizations: the Circle of Friends for American Veterans (COFAV)—also known as "American Homeless Veterans"—in 1993 and then the Center for American Homeless Veterans—also known as the "Association for Homeless and Disabled Veterans". During the 2000s, Hampton said he had "hosted more than 100 members of Congress across 196 veterans shelter-themed forums in 46 cities" in rallies for these non-profits.[82] Kleiner revealed that according to the 2015 Center for American Homeless Veterans' tax returns, "it provided just $200 in grants to other organizations out of $2.5 million in overall expenditures, the vast majority of which paid telemarketers."[82] This report confirms findings from the investigation by the Saint Louis, Missouri Better Business Bureau (BBB)[83] and CharityWatch.[84] The BBB had advised "consumers to exercise caution when deciding whether to contribute money" to Hampton's non-profit.[83]

BBB also found that "[c]ontracts between the Center for American Homeless Veterans and "its two main fundraisers"—Reno, Nevada-based Outreach Calling and Phoenix, Arizona-based Midwest Publishing—revealed that "just 10 percent of all donations" go to the Center for American Homeless Veterans.[83] The BBB investigation also revealed that from September 2014 to September 2016, Outreach Calling and Midwest Publishing "collected nearly $5 million, with about $508,000 going to the [Center for American Homeless Veterans] and "almost all the money retained" by the center, "went to pay salaries, legal fees and office-related expenses."[83]

According to New York state regulators, "a wealthy 49-year-old New Jersey businessman", Mark Gelvan (b.1978), is the "driving force behind Outreach Calling."[85] Outreach Calling collects money for "homeless veterans," "breast cancer survivors", "disabled police officers", and "children with leukemia", among others.[85] According to a 2017 CPI analysis, "Outreach Calling, raised more than $118 million on behalf of about two dozen charities from 2011 to 2015", retaining $106 million. This left c. 10.3 percent or $12.2 million, for the non-profit charities and those they serve - homeless veterans, breast cancer survivors, disabled police officers, and children with leukemia. In the United States, it is legal for for-profit telemarketers to keep 90% of the donations they solicit as long as they to not "mislead prospective donors" or "lie to them about how their contributions will be used", according to Jim Sheehan, "head of the charities bureau for the office of New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman."[85]

Copycat bills

The CPI, USA TODAY, and The Arizona Republic undertook a collaborative two-year investigation into copycat bills,[86] involving 30 investigative reporters across the United States, which culminated in a series of articles published in 2019.[87][88]: 110 [89] Specifically, their investigation examined the role of organizations, such as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), in the American legislative process through the use of so-called "model bills" or copycat bills. Data journalists, using a "unique-data analysis engine built on hundreds of cloud computers", compared "millions of words of legislation" from LegiScan, found that, from 2010 through 2018, legislators have introduced ALEC model bills 2,900 times. Six hundred of these became law.[90] The data identified about 10,000 bills introduced in all American states, that included almost identical language.[91] The investigation called the widespread successful use of these model bills spanning an eight-year period—which the report described as "fill-in-the-blank legislation"—amounts to "perhaps the largest unreported special-interest campaign in American politics."[90] Journalists wrote that copycat bills drive agendas in almost "every statehouse" and touch almost every area of public policy.[88]: 110  The data revealed how the traditional way of writing legislation "from scratch" had been supplanted by the use of ALEC bills in many states.[88]: 110  Mississippi—with a total population of less than three million—has had more "model bills", that were written outside Mississippi, introduced into its Legislature than in any other state" in the United States.[92]

Reception

Kevin Phillips of National Public Radio has said, "no other investigative organization shines so many probing flashlights into so many Washington dirty-laundry baskets."[15]

In 2006, Slate media critic Jack Shafer described CPI as having "broken as many stories as almost any big-city daily in the last couple of decades".[93]

Funding from supporters of legal restrictions on campaign finance

Writing in The Wall Street Journal in March 2005, commentator John Fund accused CPI of being a member of what he termed the "campaign finance lobby."[94] Citing a speech by Sean Treglia, former program manager at Pew Charitable Trusts, Fund argued that a "stealth campaign" by "eight liberal foundations" fomented a false sense of public demand for new restrictions on the financing of public campaigns.[94] Fund singled out CPI as a front group pushing Pew's agenda, arguing that "reporters are used to attempts to hoodwink officials into thinking an issue is genuinely popular, and they frequently expose them. But when "good government" groups like the Center for Public Integrity engage in the same tactics, journalists usually ignore it."[94]

CPI's Bill Allison responded to criticisms arising from Tregalia's speech by emphasizing that Pew's contributions to the CPI's work on campaign finance have always been forthrightly disclosed.[95] In a published argument with blogger Ryan Sager, Allison also disputed the notion that the CPI's work amounted to advocacy. Allison stated, "the purpose of our grants is to do things like code hundreds of thousands of public records, put them in a database and post them on our Website so anyone can use them. The amount of money we've gotten to push campaign finance reform is $0.[96]

In another essay on CPI's website, Allison challenged CPI's critics, and Fund specifically, arguing that:[97]

[Fund] doesn't cite a single instance in which the Center has attempted to "hoodwink" government officials (or anyone else, for that matter) into thinking campaign finance is a genuinely popular issue, because he can't. We simply don't operate that way. We don't do public relations campaigns. We don't lobby Congress. We don't petition the Federal Election Commission. We don't pretend we have legions of individuals contributing money to support our work. Our paid membership amounts to around six thousand people; we'd certainly be happy to have more… as for Mr. Fund, back in the days when campaign finance issues were of concern to him, he sought us out to lend authority to his writings on John Huang and quoted us in an Oct. 29, 1996, column on the subject. Is it Mr. Fund's view that when he wrote about various DNC campaign finance violations, he was trying to hoodwink federal officials into thinking that people cared about the issue?

Looting the Seas controversy

In November 2010, CPI published a report on bluefin tuna overfishing entitled "Looting the Seas".[98] Politico reported that "to obtain key information for the project, reporters accessed a database maintained by an intergovernmental fisheries regulatory body with a password given by a source, likely breaking the law." CPI's own lawyer and an outside law firm both determined that CPI's staff likely broke the law in obtaining information for the report. In addition, one of the experts quoted in the associated documentary was paid $15,000 as a project consultant to CPI.[99] The investigative methods used to produce the report became a point of contention within the organization when CPI employee John Solomon made a number of accusations against the team that had worked on the series.

CPI board member and former The New York Times Washington bureau chief Bill Kovach was asked by then-CPI president William Buzenberg to look into the matter. Kovach concluded that CPI's reporting was "sound, ethical and fully in the public interest."[100] In addition, the board hired an outside law firm to answer the legal questions. Columbia Journalism Review reported: "As for the legality of using the password to access data, the lawyers concluded that, in theory, a prosecutor might argue it violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. But whether it actually did was open to debate. And, in any case, it was highly unlikely that charges would ever be brought." In the wake of the controversy, David Kaplan and John Solomon resigned from CPI. CPI officials also withdrew their entry of the tuna story for a Pulitzer Prize.[99] Andy Revkin of The New York Times wrote, "the relationship of the television production to a United Nations agency and an environmental group can prompt questions about objectivity, but the package, over all, appears robust."[101] The Looting the Seas series won two journalism awards: the Renner Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors[102] and the 2010 Whitman Bassow Award from the Overseas Press Club of America.[103]

Coordination with advocacy groups

In 2011, Politico called into question CPI's collaboration with advocacy organizations. Politico reported that CPI had coordinated the release of a report on Koch Industries with Greenpeace. Politico also reported that Pew Charitable Trusts, a funder of the Looting the Seas report, hosted a screening of a CPI documentary and then organized a call to action with other NGOs for the protection of bluefin tuna. In 2008, CPI published a report on tobacco that was both funded by and promoted by an advocacy group called Tobacco Free Kids.[104][105][106]

Awards

In 1996, the CPI received the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service in Online Journalism (Independent) for their report entitled "Fat Cat Hotel: How Democratic High-Rollers are Rewarded with Overnight Stays at the White House" by the Public i staff and Margaret Ebrahim.[107]

CPI received the George Polk Award in 2003 for its investigation of US military spending in Iraq and Afghanistan ("Windfalls of War: U.S. Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan").[108] Its work led to widespread media coverage that increased congressional scrutiny of military spending.[109][110]

In 2011, CPI won a James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism for their investigation of weak inspections endangering factory workers and surrounding communities.[111]

In 2012, CPI reporter Michael Hudson won a "Best-in-Business" award for digital investigative reporting from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. Hudson won the award for his report entitled The Great Mortgage Cover-Up.[112]

CPI's work has also received awards from PEN USA, Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors, the National Press Foundation, the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and others.[113]

CPI reporter Chris Hamby won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. Hamby's story reported that doctors and lawyers working for the coal industry helped defeat benefit claims of coal miners who had contracted black lung disease.[114] After CPI's Pulitzer win, Politico reported that "ABC News has accused The Center for Public Integrity of downplaying the network's contributions to a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative report, setting off a bitter public dispute between two news organizations that once worked as partners." CPI executive director Bill Buzenberg said that ABC News overstated its contributions to the story.[115]

Published books

  • Borders, Rebecca; Dockery, C.C. (1995). Beyond the Hill: A Directory of Congress from 1984 to 1993. University Press of America. ISBN 978-0-8191-9820-4.
  • Lewis, Charles; Benes, Alejandro; O'Brien, Meredith; The Center for Public Integrity (1996). The Buying of the President. Avon Books. ISBN 978-0-380-78420-2.
  • Fagin, Dan; Lavelle, Marianne; The Center for Public Integrity (1997). Toxic Deception: How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science, Bends the Law and Endangers Your Health. Carol Publishing Corp. ISBN 978-1-55972-385-5.
  • Lewis, Charles; The Center for Public Integrity (1998). The Buying of the Congress: How Special Interests Have Stolen Your Right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Avon Books. ISBN 978-0-380-97596-9.
  • Green, Alan (1999). Animal Underworld: Inside America's Black Market for Rare and Exotic Species. Public Affairs. ISBN 978-1-58648-374-6.
  • Lewis, Charles; The Center for Public Integrity (2000). The Buying of the President 2000. Harper Perennial. ISBN 978-0-380-79519-2.
  • The Center for Public Integrity (2000). Citizen Muckraking: Stories and Tools for Defeating the Goliaths of Our Day. ISBN 978-1-56751-188-8.
  • Lewis, Charles; Allison, Bill; the Center for Public Integrity (2001). The Cheating of America: How Tax Avoidance and Evasion by the Super Rich Are Costing the Country Billions, and What You Can Do About It. William Morrow & Company. ISBN 978-0-380-97682-9.
  • Renzulli, Diane; Center for Public Integrity, The (2002). Capitol Offenders: How Private Interests Govern Our States. ISBN 978-1-882583-14-0.
  • Harmful Error. The Center for Public Integrity. 2003. ISBN 978-1-882583-18-8.
  • The Water Barons: How a Few Powerful Companies are Privatizing Our Water. The Center for Public Integrity. 2003.
  • Lewis, Charles; the Center for Public Integrity (2004). The Buying of the President 2004: Who's Really Bankrolling Bush and His Challengers—and What They Expect in Return. Harper Paperbacks. ISBN 978-0-06-054853-7.
  • The Corruption Notebooks. The Center for Public Integrity. 2004. ISBN 978-1-882583-19-5.
  • Networks of Influence: The Political Power of the Communications Industry. Center for Public Integrity. 2005. ISBN 978-1-882583-20-1.
  • Center for Public Integrity, The (2007). City Adrift: New Orleans Before & After Katrina. Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-3284-5.

See also

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Further reading

  • Keiger, Dale (November 2000). "An "i" Toward Tough Journalism". Johns Hopkins Magazine. Retrieved June 9, 2012.
  • Buzenberg, Bill (January 1, 2008). "Q&A". Q & A (Interview). Interviewed by Brian Lamb.
  • Glaser, Mark (February 25, 2004). . Online Journalism Review. Archived from the original on November 4, 2006.
  • Lewis, Charles (May 3, 2004). "Are We Better Off: This is Reform?". Mother Jones.
  • Lewis, Charles. Digging Where Journalists Don't Dig (Speech).
  • Lewis, Charles (August 9, 2005). Expanding The Definition of News Media Trust, A Jay Rosen-Led Conversation (Speech). San Antonio, Texas.
  • Lewis, Charles (September–October 2007). "The Nonprofit Road". Columbia Journalism Review.
  • Lewis, Charles (February 1, 2006). "Stories from a Watchdog Journalist". Washingtonian (Interview). Interviewed by Ken Adelman.
  • Lewis, Charles (March 4, 2005). . On The Media (Interview). Interviewed by Bob Garfield. WNYC. Archived from the original on February 19, 2007.
  • Lewis, Charles (November 1, 1998). . Booknotes (Interview). Interviewed by Brian Lamb. Washington, DC: C-SPAN. Archived from the original on December 2, 2013.
  • Lewis, Charles (November 20, 2006). "Charles Lewis on the Future of Investigative Journalism on the Web". NewAssignment.net (Interview). Interviewed by John McQuaid.

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center, public, integrity, american, nonprofit, investigative, journalism, organization, whose, stated, mission, reveal, abuses, power, corruption, dereliction, duty, powerful, public, private, institutions, order, cause, them, operate, with, honesty, integrit. The Center for Public Integrity CPI is an American nonprofit investigative journalism organization whose stated mission is to reveal abuses of power corruption and dereliction of duty by powerful public and private institutions in order to cause them to operate with honesty integrity accountability and to put the public interest first 1 With over 50 staff members the CPI is one of the largest nonprofit investigative centers in America 2 It won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting 3 The Center for Public IntegrityFoundedMarch 30 1989 34 years ago 1989 03 30 FounderCharles LewisType501 c 3 Tax ID no 54 1512177FocusInvestigative journalismLocationWashington DCMethodFoundation and Member SupportedKey peoplePaul Cheung CEO WebsitePublicIntegrity orgThe CPI has been described as an independent 4 5 6 7 8 watchdog group 6 9 The Center releases its reports via its website to media outlets throughout the U S and around the globe In 2004 CPI s The Buying of the President book was on The New York Times bestseller list for three months 10 As of December 21 2018 CPI was rated as 3 out of 4 stars overall by Charity Navigator an independent nonprofits evaluator 11 Contents 1 Mission 2 History 2 1 1989 2004 2 2 2005 2007 2 3 2007 present 3 Organizational structure 3 1 Funding 3 2 Board of directors 4 International Consortium of Investigative Journalists 4 1 Panama Papers 4 2 Paradise Papers 5 Ideology 6 Reports 6 1 CPI Fat Cat Hotel 1996 6 2 CPI Windfalls of War 2003 6 3 CPI LobbyWatch 2005 6 4 CPI Who s Behind the Financial Meltdown 2009 6 5 CPI The Climate Change Lobby Explosion 2009 6 6 Tobacco Underground 2010 6 7 Sexual Assault on Campus 2010 6 8 Toxic Clout 2013 6 9 Secrecy for Sale offshore accounts 2013 to present 6 10 Science for Sale 6 11 Professional fundraisers for veterans 6 12 Copycat bills 7 Reception 7 1 Funding from supporters of legal restrictions on campaign finance 7 2 Looting the Seas controversy 7 3 Coordination with advocacy groups 7 4 Awards 8 Published books 9 See also 10 References 11 Further reading 12 External linksMission EditThe mission of the center is to protect democracy and inspire change using investigative reporting that exposes betrayals of the public trust by powerful interests 12 History Edit1989 2004 Edit CPI was founded on March 30 1989 by Charles Lewis a former producer for ABC News and CBS News 60 Minutes 12 13 14 By the late 1980s Lewis observed that fewer resources time money and space were being invested in investigative reporting in the United States by established news outlets and major publications 15 In his book entitled 935 Lies The Future of Truth and the Decline of America s Moral Integrity Lewis recounted how he recruited two trusted journalists Alejandro Benes and Charles Piller whom he had met through his television work to serve on the board of directors of the nascent CPI All three had grown dissatisfied with what was being done in the name of investigative journalism by established news organizations 15 They chose the name public integrity as a way of underlying the ultimate purpose of investigative journalism which is to hold those in power accountable and to inform the public about significant distortions of the truth 12 16 In their tenth anniversary Annual Report Piller described their first meetings in their Boardroom the cheap seats at the Baltimore Orioles game In May 1990 Lewis used the money he had raised and his house as collateral to open an 1 800 square foot 170 m2 office in Washington D C 14 In its first year the CPI s budget was 200 000 10 In 1996 CPI launched its first website although CPI did not begin to publish reports online until 1999 10 In August 2000 the CPI published a story entitled Cheney Led Halliburton to Feast at Federal Trough State Department Questioned Deal With Firm Linked to Russian Mob in which the authors argued that while Dick Cheney was CEO of Halliburton from 1995 to 2000 the company received 3 8 billion in federal contracts and taxpayer insured loans 15 17 In 2001 Global Integrity an international project was launched to systematically track and report on openness accountability and the rule of law in various countries It has since been incorporated independently 18 2005 2007 Edit Lewis served as CPI s director until January 2005 As of his departure CPI had published 14 books and more than 250 investigative reports In 2005 CPI had a staff of 40 full time Washington based reporters who partnered with a network of writers and editors in more than 25 countries 10 Years later Lewis said he decided to leave his position at CPI because he didn t want it to become an institution that was Chuck s Excellent Adventure 19 Lewis departure surprised and upset philanthropists Herb and Marion Sandler who had partially funded the CPI s activities 20 In December 2004 CPI s board of directors chose television journalist Roberta Baskin as Lewis s successor Baskin came to CPI after directing consumer investigations for ABC News s 20 20 and serving as Washington correspondent for PBS s NOW with Bill Moyers 21 Lewis wrote that most of the Center s carefully assembled very talented senior staff had quit by the fall of 2005 10 In September 2005 CPI announced that it had discovered a pattern of plagiarism in the past work of a staff writer for CPI s 2002 book Capitol Offenders CPI responded by hiring a copy editor to review all work issuing a revised version of Capitol Offenders sending letters of apology to all reporters whose work was plagiarized authoring a new corrections policy and returning an award the book received from Investigative Reporters and Editors 22 He went on to work for a political consulting firm that specializes in opposition research 23 24 In March 2007 he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that the center s official version is not accurate in telling the full story of why I left the center but did not elaborate Baskin led the organization until May 24 2006 25 Baskin was followed by Wendell Rawls Jr who was named the center s interim executive director 26 Rawls had previously worked as the center s managing director being named to that post by Baskin on December 19 2005 He joined CPI in August 2005 27 2007 present Edit In 2007 Rawls was succeeded by William Buzenberg a vice president at American Public Media Minnesota Public Radio 28 Buzenberg was first interviewed for the position in 2004 during the hiring process that ultimately led to the selection of his predecessor Roberta Baskin 19 According to a report by Lewis the number of full time staff was reduced by one third in early 2007 10 By December 2007 the number of full time staff had dropped to 25 down from a high of 40 19 At the time Buzenberg said It s a great great place but I will not mislead you Lewis quite frankly left the center in great shape financially but when you have a visionary who leaves how do you continue With difficulty is the answer 19 Baskin publicly disputed Buzenberg s claims in a letter to the American Journalism Review where she wrote contrary to the statement from current Executive Director Bill Buzenberg the center was not left in great shape financially by my predecessor Much of the money raised during the year prior to my tenure was used to offset budget overruns on several previous projects I replaced our director of development and made fundraising my number one priority much as Buzenberg has done As a rookie fundraiser I take pride in the fact that I was able to raise millions of dollars 22 In 2008 Lewis reflected on the transition period following his resignation and said I regret what happened to my staff and the condition of the Center It s no secret it had a less than enviable few years But that s one of the reasons I thought it was important to leave I had founded it and run it for 15 years and at some point the founder does have to leave the building I don t regret it I think it was important that I left but I do feel badly about the hardship it brought to people I think the world of 29 In 2010 The Huffington Post Investigative Fund merged into the CPI and eight Huffington Post journalists moved to CPI 2 30 In 2011 CPI eliminated 10 staff positions in order to compensate for a 2 million budget shortfall Buzenberg and other senior staffers also took salary cuts CPI board chairman Bruce Finzen said the budget would be reduced between 2 million and 3 million more like 2 5 million The budget for next year will be in the 6 to 7 million range As of 2012 update there were over 50 staffers at CPI making it one of the largest nonpartisan nonprofit investigative centers in the country 2 In April 2011 with support from the Knight Foundation CPI launched iWatchnews org as its main investigative reporting website 31 In August 2012 CPI stopped using iWatchnews org and returned to its original domain 32 Buzenberg stepped down from CPI at the end of 2014 at which time Peter Bale was named CEO 33 In November 2016 Bale resigned from the center to pursue other international media opportunities and John Dunbar assumed the role of chief executive officer 34 In 2019 Susan Smith Richardson was named chief executive officer becoming the first African American CEO in the center s history 35 36 Organizational structure EditFunding Edit A list of CPI s donors may be found on the organization s official website 37 CPI s annual reports are also available on the organization s website 14 CPI ceased accepting contributions from corporations and labor unions in 1996 14 In its first year CPI s budget was reported to be 200 000 10 In 2010 CPI had 9 264 997 in revenue and 7 708 349 in expenses 38 CPI reports receiving foundation support from a number of foundations including the Sunlight Foundation the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation the Ford Foundation the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation the John S and James L Knight Foundation the Omidyar Network the Open Society Foundations and the Pew Charitable Trusts 37 The Barbra Streisand Foundation reports that it has funded CPI 39 In July 2014 the Laura and John Arnold Foundation donated 2 8 million to CPI to launch a new project focused on state campaign finance According to the International Business Times as CPI was negotiating the Arnold grant Arnold s name was absent from a CPI report on pension politics Arnold has spent at least 10 million on a campaign to roll back pension benefits for public workers 40 41 Board of directors Edit CPI s board of directors includes Elspeth Revere Bill Kovach Ninan Chacko Bruce A Finzen Arianna Huffington Richard M Lobo Craig Newmark Gilbert Omenn Dan Emmett Matthew Granade Jennifer 8 Lee James A Kiernan Steve Kroft Hendrik Jan Laseur Susan Loewenberg Bevis Longsteth Olivia Ma Scott Siegler Marianne Szegedy Maszak and Matt Thompson 42 Past board directors include Christiane Amanpour Sheila Coronel and Molly Bingham International Consortium of Investigative Journalists EditMain article International Consortium of Investigative Journalists International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ICIJ logo In 1997 CPI launched the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ICIJ This international network based in Washington D C 43 includes over 200 investigative reporters in over 90 countries and territories 44 Gerard Ryle is the director of ICIJ 45 Its website publishes The Global Muckraker 46 ICIJ is focused on issues such as cross border crime corruption and the accountability of power 47 In 2013 the consortium reported having 160 member journalists from 60 countries 47 The ICIJ brings together teams of international journalists for different investigations over 80 for Offshore leaks It organized the bi annual Daniel Pearl Awards for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting ICIJ staff members include Michael Hudson while the Advisory Committee in 2013 included Bill Kovach Phillip Knightley Gwen Lister and Goenawan Mohamad 47 Panama Papers Edit Main article Panama Papers In April 2016 the ICIJ made headlines worldwide with the announcement that it and the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung had received a leaked set of 11 5 million confidential documents from a secret source created by the Panamanian corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca The Panama Papers provided detailed information on more than 214 000 offshore companies including the identities of shareholders and directors 48 The documents named the leaders of five countries Argentina Iceland Saudi Arabia Ukraine and the United Arab Emirates as well as government officials close relatives and close associates of various heads of government of more than 40 other countries including Brazil China France India Malaysia Mexico Malta Pakistan Russia South Africa Spain Syria and the United Kingdom 49 The ICIJ and Suddeutsche Zeitung received the Panama Papers in 2015 and distributed them to about 400 journalists at 107 media organizations in more than 80 countries The first news reports based on the set along with 149 of the documents themselves 50 were published on April 3 2016 51 Among other planned disclosures the full list of companies is to be released in early May 2016 52 Paradise Papers Edit Main article Paradise PapersIn November 2017 ICIJ launched a coordinated worldwide release of investigative reports based on the Paradise Papers 53 documents leaked to the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung on offshore tax havens tax paradises from offshore law firm Appleby Ideology EditA 2012 The New York Times editorial described the CPI as a nonpartisan watchdog group 6 In relation to a story in February 1996 CPI was characterized as a liberal group by the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times 54 55 Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting a progressive media watchdog has described CPI as progressive 56 Reports EditCPI s first report America s Frontline Trade Officials reported that nearly half of White House trade officials studied over a fifteen year period became lobbyists for countries or overseas corporations after retirement According to Lewis it prompted a Justice Department ruling a General Accounting Office report a Congressional hearing was cited by four presidential candidates in 1992 and was partly responsible for an executive order in January 1993 by President Clinton placing a lifetime ban on foreign lobbying by White House trade officials 10 15 CPI Fat Cat Hotel 1996 Edit Main article Lincoln Bedroom for contributors controversy In 1996 CPI released a report called Fat Cat Hotel How Democratic High Rollers Are Rewarded with Overnight Stays at the White House This report written by Margaret Ebrahim won an award from the Society of Professional Journalists The report was an examination of the connection between overnight stays in the Lincoln Bedroom during the Clinton presidency and financial contributions to the Democratic Party as well as the Clinton re election campaign 57 CPI Windfalls of War 2003 Edit In 2003 CPI published Windfalls of War a report arguing that campaign contributions to George W Bush affected the allocation of reconstruction contracts in Afghanistan and Iraq 58 Slate ran a piece arguing that due to a statistically insignificant correlation coefficient between campaign donations and winning contracts CPI has no evidence to support its allegations 59 CPI LobbyWatch 2005 Edit CPI first reports on LobbyWatch were released in 2005 25 In their January 2005 publication entitled Pushing Prescriptions CPI revealed that major pharmaceutical companies was the number one lobbyist in the United States spending 675 million over seven years on lobbying They continued with this series in 2005 revealing how pharmaceutical companies had contacts even within the Food and Drug Administration and U S Trade Representatives CPI Who s Behind the Financial Meltdown 2009 Edit CPI s report Who s Behind the Financial Meltdown 60 looking at the roots of the global financial crisis was featured in numerous media outlets leading Columbia Journalism Review to ask Why hasn t a newspaper or magazine done this 61 CPI The Climate Change Lobby Explosion 2009 Edit More than 100 newspapers magazines wire services and websites cited CPI s report The Climate Change Lobby Explosion an analysis of Senate records showing that the number of climate lobbyists had grown by three hundred percent to four for every Senator 62 Tobacco Underground 2010 Edit Tobacco Underground an ongoing project tracing the global trade in smuggled cigarettes 63 produced by CPI s International Consortium of Investigative Journalists was honored with the prestigious Renner Award for Crime Reporting from Investigative Reporters and Editors IRE and the Overseas Press Club Award for Best Online International Reporting citation needed The Tobacco Underground Project was funded by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health It is a cooperative project between the Center for Public Integrity s International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ICIJ and Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project OCCRP with journalists in Bosnia and Herzegovina Romania Russia and Ukraine Journalists in Brazil Belgium Canada China Italy Paraguay and the UK also participated 64 that won the Overseas Press Club Award and Investigative Reporters and Editors s Tom Renner Award for crime reporting 65 66 Sexual Assault on Campus 2010 Edit In 2010 CPI partnered with National Public Radio to publish Sexual Assault on Campus 67 a report which showcases the failures of colleges and government agencies to prevent sexual assaults and resolve sexual assault cases 68 Toxic Clout 2013 Edit The year long investigation by CPI Toxic Clout produced in partnership with the PBS NewsHour unmasked the deep sometimes hidden connections entangling the chemical industry scientists and regulators revealing the industry s sway and the public s peril 69 Investigative journalists examined the work of the then California Department of Public Health s John Morgan who had been working since 1995 to debunk allegations that chromium had contributed to the cancer cluster attributed to Hinkley groundwater contamination The CPI found glaring weaknesses in Morgan s analysis that challenge the validity of his findings In his first study he dismisses what others see as a genuine cancer cluster in Hinkley In his latest analysis he excludes people who were exposed to the worst contamination 70 PBS Newshour broadcast the series which included EPA Contaminated by Conflict of Interest Ouster of Scientist from EPA Panel Shows Industry Clout starting in early 2013 71 72 CPI published a series of articles including Toxic clout how Washington works badly and How industry scientists stalled action on carcinogen 73 74 Secrecy for Sale offshore accounts 2013 to present Edit In 2013 International Consortium of Investigative Journalists released the results of a 15 month long investigation based on 260 gigabytes of data regarding the ownership of secret offshore bank accounts The data was obtained by Gerard Ryle as a result of his investigation into the Firepower scandal The ICIJ partnered with the Guardian BBC Le Monde The Washington Post SonntagsZeitung Suddeutsche Zeitung and NDR to produce an investigative series on offshore banking 75 76 ICIJ and partnering agencies used the ownership information to report on government corruption across the globe tax avoidance schemes used by wealthy people the use of secret offshore accounts in Ponzi Schemes the active role of major banks in facilitating secrecy for their clients and the strategies and actors that make these activities possible 77 In early 2014 the ICIJ revealed as part of their Offshore Leaks that relatives of China s political and financial elite were among those using offshore tax havens to store wealth 78 Science for Sale Edit The 2016 series entitled Science for Sale included the February 8 2016 article About Science for Sale 79 the February 8 2016 article Meet the rented white coats who defend toxic chemicals the February 10 2016 article Making a cancer cluster disappear the February 16 2016 article Ford spent 40 million to reshape asbestos science the February 18 2016 article Brokers of junk science 80 and the March 31 2016 article Senators seek better conflict disclosures for scientific articles 81 In this investigative series which was co published with Vice journalist revealed how research backed by industry has opened debates on asbestos and arsenic with some of the paid scientists saying that there are safe levels of asbestos despite statements to the contrary from the World Health Organization and many other august bodies 81 Professional fundraisers for veterans Edit In December 2017 CPI journalist Sarah Kleiner published a report on professional fundraisers who use telemarketing to collect donations for US military veterans then keep 90 percent of the funds collected 82 According to the December 12 2017 article Brian Arthur Hampton co founded two Falls Church Virginia based non profit organizations the Circle of Friends for American Veterans COFAV also known as American Homeless Veterans in 1993 and then the Center for American Homeless Veterans also known as the Association for Homeless and Disabled Veterans During the 2000s Hampton said he had hosted more than 100 members of Congress across 196 veterans shelter themed forums in 46 cities in rallies for these non profits 82 Kleiner revealed that according to the 2015 Center for American Homeless Veterans tax returns it provided just 200 in grants to other organizations out of 2 5 million in overall expenditures the vast majority of which paid telemarketers 82 This report confirms findings from the investigation by the Saint Louis Missouri Better Business Bureau BBB 83 and CharityWatch 84 The BBB had advised consumers to exercise caution when deciding whether to contribute money to Hampton s non profit 83 BBB also found that c ontracts between the Center for American Homeless Veterans and its two main fundraisers Reno Nevada based Outreach Calling and Phoenix Arizona based Midwest Publishing revealed that just 10 percent of all donations go to the Center for American Homeless Veterans 83 The BBB investigation also revealed that from September 2014 to September 2016 Outreach Calling and Midwest Publishing collected nearly 5 million with about 508 000 going to the Center for American Homeless Veterans and almost all the money retained by the center went to pay salaries legal fees and office related expenses 83 According to New York state regulators a wealthy 49 year old New Jersey businessman Mark Gelvan b 1978 is the driving force behind Outreach Calling 85 Outreach Calling collects money for homeless veterans breast cancer survivors disabled police officers and children with leukemia among others 85 According to a 2017 CPI analysis Outreach Calling raised more than 118 million on behalf of about two dozen charities from 2011 to 2015 retaining 106 million This left c 10 3 percent or 12 2 million for the non profit charities and those they serve homeless veterans breast cancer survivors disabled police officers and children with leukemia In the United States it is legal for for profit telemarketers to keep 90 of the donations they solicit as long as they to not mislead prospective donors or lie to them about how their contributions will be used according to Jim Sheehan head of the charities bureau for the office of New York Attorney General Eric T Schneiderman 85 Copycat bills Edit The CPI USA TODAY and The Arizona Republic undertook a collaborative two year investigation into copycat bills 86 involving 30 investigative reporters across the United States which culminated in a series of articles published in 2019 87 88 110 89 Specifically their investigation examined the role of organizations such as the American Legislative Exchange Council ALEC in the American legislative process through the use of so called model bills or copycat bills Data journalists using a unique data analysis engine built on hundreds of cloud computers compared millions of words of legislation from LegiScan found that from 2010 through 2018 legislators have introduced ALEC model bills 2 900 times Six hundred of these became law 90 The data identified about 10 000 bills introduced in all American states that included almost identical language 91 The investigation called the widespread successful use of these model bills spanning an eight year period which the report described as fill in the blank legislation amounts to perhaps the largest unreported special interest campaign in American politics 90 Journalists wrote that copycat bills drive agendas in almost every statehouse and touch almost every area of public policy 88 110 The data revealed how the traditional way of writing legislation from scratch had been supplanted by the use of ALEC bills in many states 88 110 Mississippi with a total population of less than three million has had more model bills that were written outside Mississippi introduced into its Legislature than in any other state in the United States 92 Reception EditKevin Phillips of National Public Radio has said no other investigative organization shines so many probing flashlights into so many Washington dirty laundry baskets 15 In 2006 Slate media critic Jack Shafer described CPI as having broken as many stories as almost any big city daily in the last couple of decades 93 Funding from supporters of legal restrictions on campaign finance Edit Writing in The Wall Street Journal in March 2005 commentator John Fund accused CPI of being a member of what he termed the campaign finance lobby 94 Citing a speech by Sean Treglia former program manager at Pew Charitable Trusts Fund argued that a stealth campaign by eight liberal foundations fomented a false sense of public demand for new restrictions on the financing of public campaigns 94 Fund singled out CPI as a front group pushing Pew s agenda arguing that reporters are used to attempts to hoodwink officials into thinking an issue is genuinely popular and they frequently expose them But when good government groups like the Center for Public Integrity engage in the same tactics journalists usually ignore it 94 CPI s Bill Allison responded to criticisms arising from Tregalia s speech by emphasizing that Pew s contributions to the CPI s work on campaign finance have always been forthrightly disclosed 95 In a published argument with blogger Ryan Sager Allison also disputed the notion that the CPI s work amounted to advocacy Allison stated the purpose of our grants is to do things like code hundreds of thousands of public records put them in a database and post them on our Website so anyone can use them The amount of money we ve gotten to push campaign finance reform is 0 96 In another essay on CPI s website Allison challenged CPI s critics and Fund specifically arguing that 97 Fund doesn t cite a single instance in which the Center has attempted to hoodwink government officials or anyone else for that matter into thinking campaign finance is a genuinely popular issue because he can t We simply don t operate that way We don t do public relations campaigns We don t lobby Congress We don t petition the Federal Election Commission We don t pretend we have legions of individuals contributing money to support our work Our paid membership amounts to around six thousand people we d certainly be happy to have more as for Mr Fund back in the days when campaign finance issues were of concern to him he sought us out to lend authority to his writings on John Huang and quoted us in an Oct 29 1996 column on the subject Is it Mr Fund s view that when he wrote about various DNC campaign finance violations he was trying to hoodwink federal officials into thinking that people cared about the issue Looting the Seas controversy Edit In November 2010 CPI published a report on bluefin tuna overfishing entitled Looting the Seas 98 Politico reported that to obtain key information for the project reporters accessed a database maintained by an intergovernmental fisheries regulatory body with a password given by a source likely breaking the law CPI s own lawyer and an outside law firm both determined that CPI s staff likely broke the law in obtaining information for the report In addition one of the experts quoted in the associated documentary was paid 15 000 as a project consultant to CPI 99 The investigative methods used to produce the report became a point of contention within the organization when CPI employee John Solomon made a number of accusations against the team that had worked on the series CPI board member and former The New York Times Washington bureau chief Bill Kovach was asked by then CPI president William Buzenberg to look into the matter Kovach concluded that CPI s reporting was sound ethical and fully in the public interest 100 In addition the board hired an outside law firm to answer the legal questions Columbia Journalism Review reported As for the legality of using the password to access data the lawyers concluded that in theory a prosecutor might argue it violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act But whether it actually did was open to debate And in any case it was highly unlikely that charges would ever be brought In the wake of the controversy David Kaplan and John Solomon resigned from CPI CPI officials also withdrew their entry of the tuna story for a Pulitzer Prize 99 Andy Revkin of The New York Times wrote the relationship of the television production to a United Nations agency and an environmental group can prompt questions about objectivity but the package over all appears robust 101 The Looting the Seas series won two journalism awards the Renner Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors 102 and the 2010 Whitman Bassow Award from the Overseas Press Club of America 103 Coordination with advocacy groups Edit In 2011 Politico called into question CPI s collaboration with advocacy organizations Politico reported that CPI had coordinated the release of a report on Koch Industries with Greenpeace Politico also reported that Pew Charitable Trusts a funder of the Looting the Seas report hosted a screening of a CPI documentary and then organized a call to action with other NGOs for the protection of bluefin tuna In 2008 CPI published a report on tobacco that was both funded by and promoted by an advocacy group called Tobacco Free Kids 104 105 106 Awards Edit In 1996 the CPI received the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service in Online Journalism Independent for their report entitled Fat Cat Hotel How Democratic High Rollers are Rewarded with Overnight Stays at the White House by the Public i staff and Margaret Ebrahim 107 CPI received the George Polk Award in 2003 for its investigation of US military spending in Iraq and Afghanistan Windfalls of War U S Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan 108 Its work led to widespread media coverage that increased congressional scrutiny of military spending 109 110 In 2011 CPI won a James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism for their investigation of weak inspections endangering factory workers and surrounding communities 111 In 2012 CPI reporter Michael Hudson won a Best in Business award for digital investigative reporting from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers Hudson won the award for his report entitled The Great Mortgage Cover Up 112 CPI s work has also received awards from PEN USA Investigative Reporters and Editors the Society of Professional Journalists the Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors the National Press Foundation the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press Politics and Public Policy and others 113 CPI reporter Chris Hamby won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting Hamby s story reported that doctors and lawyers working for the coal industry helped defeat benefit claims of coal miners who had contracted black lung disease 114 After CPI s Pulitzer win Politico reported that ABC News has accused The Center for Public Integrity of downplaying the network s contributions to a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative report setting off a bitter public dispute between two news organizations that once worked as partners CPI executive director Bill Buzenberg said that ABC News overstated its contributions to the story 115 Published books EditBorders Rebecca Dockery C C 1995 Beyond the Hill A Directory of Congress from 1984 to 1993 University Press of America ISBN 978 0 8191 9820 4 Lewis Charles Benes Alejandro O Brien Meredith The Center for Public Integrity 1996 The Buying of the President Avon Books ISBN 978 0 380 78420 2 Fagin Dan Lavelle Marianne The Center for Public Integrity 1997 Toxic Deception How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science Bends the Law and Endangers Your Health Carol Publishing Corp ISBN 978 1 55972 385 5 Lewis Charles The Center for Public Integrity 1998 The Buying of the Congress How Special Interests Have Stolen Your Right to Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness Avon Books ISBN 978 0 380 97596 9 Green Alan 1999 Animal Underworld Inside America s Black Market for Rare and Exotic Species Public Affairs ISBN 978 1 58648 374 6 Lewis Charles The Center for Public Integrity 2000 The Buying of the President 2000 Harper Perennial ISBN 978 0 380 79519 2 The Center for Public Integrity 2000 Citizen Muckraking Stories and Tools for Defeating the Goliaths of Our Day ISBN 978 1 56751 188 8 Lewis Charles Allison Bill the Center for Public Integrity 2001 The Cheating of America How Tax Avoidance and Evasion by the Super Rich Are Costing the Country Billions and What You Can Do About It William Morrow amp Company ISBN 978 0 380 97682 9 Renzulli Diane Center for Public Integrity The 2002 Capitol Offenders How Private Interests Govern Our States ISBN 978 1 882583 14 0 Harmful Error The Center for Public Integrity 2003 ISBN 978 1 882583 18 8 The Water Barons How a Few Powerful Companies are Privatizing Our Water The Center for Public Integrity 2003 Lewis Charles the Center for Public Integrity 2004 The Buying of the President 2004 Who s Really Bankrolling Bush and His Challengers and What They Expect in Return Harper Paperbacks ISBN 978 0 06 054853 7 The Corruption Notebooks The Center for Public Integrity 2004 ISBN 978 1 882583 19 5 Networks of Influence The Political Power of the Communications Industry Center for Public Integrity 2005 ISBN 978 1 882583 20 1 Center for Public Integrity The 2007 City Adrift New Orleans Before amp After Katrina Louisiana State University Press ISBN 978 0 8071 3284 5 See also EditInternational Consortium of Investigative JournalistsReferences Edit About The Center for Public Integrity Center for Public Integrity Archived from the original on June 3 2012 Retrieved June 9 2012 a b c PI reduces staff to compensate for 2 million budget hole Poynter Institute December 9 2011 Retrieved June 9 2012 The 2014 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2 2011 Retrieved June 9 2012 Did CPI coordinate with Greenpeace Politico August 29 2011 Retrieved June 9 2012 1996 Sigma Delta Chi Award Winners SPJ News 1997 Retrieved April 7 2016 Windfalls of War Center for Public Integrity Staff writer February 17 2004 L A Times Journalists Honored With Two Polk Awards Los Angeles Times Retrieved April 13 2013 McFadden Robert D February 17 2004 Journalists Who Braved Iraq and African Wars Are Among 14 Polk Award Winners The New York Times Retrieved April 4 2013 2011 Aronson Award winners expose pink fundraising fraud widespread abuse of the developmentally disabled refineries loosely inspected and bad cops undisciplined Hunter College April 4 2012 Archived from the original on December 12 2012 Retrieved June 10 2012 Complete list of winners in SABEW s 17th annual Best in Business Awards Society of American Business Editors and Writers Retrieved June 10 2012 Awards The Center for Public Integrity Archived from the original on April 15 2012 Retrieved June 10 2012 Center wins first Pulitzer Prize Center for Public Integrity Retrieved April 14 2014 Byers Dylan April 16 2014 Pulitzer prize fight Politico Retrieved July 30 2014 Further reading EditKeiger Dale November 2000 An i Toward Tough Journalism Johns Hopkins Magazine Retrieved June 9 2012 Buzenberg Bill January 1 2008 Q amp A Q amp A Interview Interviewed by Brian Lamb Glaser Mark February 25 2004 Center for Public Integrity Leading the Way for Serious Online Journalism Online Journalism Review Archived from the original on November 4 2006 Lewis Charles May 3 2004 Are We Better Off This is Reform Mother Jones Lewis Charles Digging Where Journalists Don t Dig Speech Lewis Charles August 9 2005 Expanding The Definition of News Media Trust A Jay Rosen Led Conversation Speech San Antonio Texas Lewis Charles September October 2007 The Nonprofit Road Columbia Journalism Review Lewis Charles February 1 2006 Stories from a Watchdog Journalist Washingtonian Interview Interviewed by Ken Adelman Lewis Charles March 4 2005 The Digging Life On The Media Interview Interviewed by Bob Garfield WNYC Archived from the original on February 19 2007 Lewis Charles November 1 1998 The Buying of the Congress Booknotes Interview Interviewed by Brian Lamb Washington DC C SPAN Archived from the original on December 2 2013 Lewis Charles November 20 2006 Charles Lewis on the Future of Investigative Journalism on the Web NewAssignment net Interview Interviewed by John McQuaid External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Center for Public Integrity Official website International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ICIJ Sunshine Week National Freedom of Information FOI Day at First Amendment Center Portals United States Journalism Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Center for Public Integrity amp oldid 1133380208, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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