New Knight Grant Accelerates Digital Transformation Of Investigative Reporting Leader, Center for Public Integrity

The Center for Public Integrity, a 20-year leader in nonprofit investigative journalism, will speed its transformation into a 21st century news organization with a new $1.7 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The grant will enable the center's non-partisan, award-winning watchdog journalism to engage national and international audiences more effectively using all forms of digital media.

Specifically, the grant will allow the center to:

• Hire a chief digital officer to develop a new digital strategy aimed at increasing the impact of the center's journalism and increase the center's impact
• Develop new ways to engage the center's audience in selecting, producing and delivering stories, including through a redesigned website
• Launch the Ujima Project, an open source computer-assisted reporting tool for investigative reporters internationally
• Help produce at least 30 new major reporting projects over the next two years
• Experiment with new fund-raising models and for-profit revenue streams.

The center has named John Solomon, an award-winning journalist who led investigative teams at the Associated Press and the Washington Post, as its new chief digital officer.