Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting

Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) engages and empowers the public through accountability journalism and groundbreaking storytelling that sparks action, improves lives, and protects our democracy. We connect national, regional, and local news organizations together to tell the most important investigative stories and meet the information needs of diverse communities across the country. Success for CIR isn’t reaching all audiences, but engaging the right ones to hold power to account. In order to increase our impact this year, Battery Powered support will help us: - Produce nationally-relevant, multi-platform investigative projects that engage local communities and lead to impact. Our newsroom is focused on immigration, threats to democracy, criminal justice, climate and the environment, reproductive rights, and economic inequality. - Build on our successful model of nurturing investigative reporting nationally and locally, by equipping local journalists and outlets with investigative expertise and information, elevating local investigations to our national networks and platforms, and supporting local networks of journalists and organizations to further accountability reporting in their own communities. - Continue to build and diversify our audience. In 2022 we will launch Reveal Studios, an outlet for the development of ideas pitched by talented local and national journalists and newsrooms that allows them to tap into our expertise and experience in both audio and film production. - Invest in documentary and television production to ensure investigative journalism thrives in the streaming space. Building on recent successes — including an Academy-Award nominated co-production with Netflix and a series with Oxygen — we will continue to invest in documentary projects that result in significant public attention.