Thank you and farewell
After eight years as Executive Director of the Center for Public Integrity, I am incredibly proud of the award-winning investigative work and the robust journalism institution I will leave behind when I step down this week.
In a digital era of tremendous disruption, the Center has not only weathered upheaval in the industry, but excelled with our own distinct brand of long-form investigative journalism based on data and documents. This signature work has brought about the largest audiences in our history, amazing impact from our reports and the widest distribution ever via hundreds of publishing partners worldwide.
I have nothing but praise and appreciation for the hard-working staff — our teams of dedicated reporters and editors, who daily make a reality of the Center’s central mission —To serve democracy by revealing abuses of power, corruption and betrayal of public trust by powerful public and private institutions, using the tools of investigative journalism.
Looking back over these years, I’d like to cite seven specific accomplishments from which I’ve derived enormous satisfaction:
It is perhaps easiest to quantify our financial success. Having raised more than $50 million in the last eight years, I am pleased to report that The Center for Public Integrity is supported by as many as 50 different foundations and thousands of individual citizens who value our work. Thanks to their generosity, the Center today is a stable and highly efficient nonprofit investigative news organization. Fundraising will always be a challenge, especially for general support funds, but I am leaving behind commitments of $7 million, compared to the financial deficit I faced in my first days on the job.
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