The Center for Investigative Reporting

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2010 to Dec 31, 2010

Signed

May 10, 2011

Return Version

2010v3.2

Gross Receipts

$9,796,815

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

The anita fund: human rights reporting and our global justice journalism projectanita roddick - cofounder of the body shop, mother jones board member, and human rights activist - believed that brave journalism has a hugely important role to play in helping the rest of us understand and stand with people who are deprived of their basic human rights. After her untimely death almost three years ago, the staff and board of mother jones felt the need to do something special to honor her memory. With initial support from her husband gordon and two daughters, we launched the anita fund: a global justice journalism project. In 2010, mother jones published a special collection of feature stories on human rights with our april 2010 issue. We also hired mac mcclelland to cover the human rights beat. Mac is a young, smart, funny, and passionate journalist whose book on burmese human rights violations, for us surrender is out of the question, was published to great reviews in early 2010. In 2011, mac will continue to report full time for mother jones on human rights issue around the world and here in the united states in the pages of mother jones magazine, on her mojo blog, "the rights stuff," as well as to her more than 5,600 twitter followers.we will also continue to report on lgbt issues in 2011, beginning with how the fight to get rid of dadt plays out, the ongoing legal and political dispute over prop 8 in california. In conjunction with our investigation of the far right and its takeover of the republican party, we also are taking a look at "tea party inc" - the money behind the tea party movement, including the overlap with fundamentalist and antigay groups. As the 2012 presidential campaign swings into action in the second half of 2011, we expect to be reporting on how marriage equality and workplace rights for lgbt people will be used, once again, as stalking horses in the election cycle. We'll again look particularly at who's secretly funding some of the propaganda and hate-mongering. Lastly, the editors are exploring a story, inspired in part by the uganda death-penalty-for-gays law, at how us interests are exporting and/or nurturing antigay movements and policies overseas. Speaking of twitter, besides being named one of grist's top green twitters, kate sheppard's pieces on the intersection of the environment and the economy are consistently being picked up all over the progressive and mainstream media.

Activity 3

Reporting on the environment:mother jones was one of the only journalism shops to commit ongoing, in-the-field reporting resources to coverage of the bp oil spill - as clara jeffery and monika bauerlein put it in a recent editorial note, it is a "pretty devastating" comment on the state of environmental journalism that mother jones had more reporters covering it than the majority of america's newspapers and tv networks. The team-based reporting on the environment we deployed on the spill (involving four full time reporters plus freelancers as well as our interns and fellows) is extremely rare these days, what with the astonishing decimation of environmental journalism that's taken place in the past few years. Simply put, there are almost no professional journalism organizations with more than one or two reporters assigned to an environmental beat. Among independent media organizations, mother jones is one of a handful that is committed to long-term coverage of this issue area. We'll continue this approach to environmental reporting in 2011.in addition, as described in a companion proposal to this one, in 2011 we will continue to act as convener and organizer for the climate desk, a journalistic collaboration on the most urgent story of our time -- how we will adapt to a world reshaped by climate change, and how we can speed the shift to a post-carbon world. In addition to mother jones, partners include slate, the atlantic, wired, the nation institute, grist, the center for investigative reporting, and "need to know," the wnet-new york that replaced bill moyers' show upon his retirement this spring. Together, these publications reach 27 million readers.

Filer

EIN

94-2282759