Center for Public Integrity
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The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) is an American
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.
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".[10]
History
1989–2004
CPI was founded on March 30, 1989, by Charles Lewis, a former producer for ABC News and CBS News 60 Minutes.[10][11][12] 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.[13]
In his book entitled
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
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
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.[17]
In 2004, CPI's The Buying of the President book was on The New York Times bestseller list for three months.[15]
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.[15] 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".[18] Lewis' departure surprised and upset philanthropists Herb and Marion Sandler, who had partially funded the CPI's activities.[19]
In December 2004, CPI's board of directors chose television journalist
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
Baskin led the organization until May 24, 2006.[24]
Baskin was followed by Wendell Rawls Jr., who was named the center's interim executive director.[25] 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.[26]
2007–2022
In 2007, Rawls was succeeded by William Buzenberg, a vice president at American Public Media/Minnesota Public Radio.[27] Buzenberg was first interviewed for the position in 2004 during the hiring process that ultimately led to the selection of his predecessor, Roberta Baskin.[18]
According to a report by Lewis, "the number of full-time staff was reduced by one-third" in early 2007.[15] By December 2007, the number of full-time staff had dropped to 25, down from a high of 40.[18] 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."[18]
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."[21]
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."[28]
In 2010,
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."
In April 2011, with support from the
Buzenberg stepped down from CPI at the end of 2014, at which time Peter Bale was named CEO.[32] In November 2016, Bale resigned from the center to "pursue other international media opportunities" and John Dunbar assumed the role of chief executive officer.[33]
In 2019, Susan Smith Richardson was named chief executive officer, becoming the first African-American CEO in the center's history.[34][35]
2022-present
In February 2023, CEO Paul Cheung resigned. The board also acted to eliminate the position of editor-in-chief, a post that had been held by Matt DeRienzo.[3]
CPI had a revenue goal of $6 million for 2023, and fell about $2.5 million short of that. According to the
Organizational structure
Funding
CPI's donors are listed on its website for the most recent two years.[37][38] CPI ceased accepting contributions from corporations and labor unions in 1996.[12] In its first year, CPI's budget was reported to be $200,000.[15] In 2010, CPI had $9.2 million in revenue and $7.7 million in expenses.[39] By 2022, annual revenues had declined to $5 million.[40]
CPI reports receiving foundation support from a number of foundations, including the
In July 2014, the
Board of directors
As of March 2024, CPI's board of directors includes co-chairs James A. Kiernan and Wesley Lowery, and members Richard Lobo, George Alvarez-Correa, Bruce Finzen, Jamaal Glenn, Olivier Kamanda, Jennifer 8. Lee, Gilbert Omenn, Sue Suh, Daniel Suleiman and Andres Torres. Former board members include Elspeth Revere, Bill Kovach, Ninan Chacko, Arianna Huffington, Craig Newmark, Dan Emmett, Matthew Granade, Steve Kroft, Hendrik-Jan Laseur, Susan Loewenberg, Bevis Longsteth, Olivia Ma, Scott Siegler, Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, Christiane Amanpour, Sheila Coronel, and Molly Bingham, and Matt Thompson.[44]
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
In 1997, CPI launched the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). This international network, based in
Panama Papers
In April 2016, the ICIJ made headlines worldwide with the announcement that it and the German newspaper
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,[52] were published on April 3, 2016.[53] Among other planned disclosures, the full list of companies is to be released in early May 2016.[54]
Paradise Papers
In November 2017, ICIJ launched a coordinated worldwide release of investigative reports based on the Paradise Papers,[55] 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
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."[15][13]
CPI Fat Cat Hotel 1996
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.[59]
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.[60] 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."[61]
CPI LobbyWatch 2005
CPI's LobbyWatch series of reports started with its first reports in 2005.[24] In their January 2005 publication entitled Pushing Prescriptions, CPI revealed that major pharmaceutical companies were 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?,[62] 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?"[63]
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, numbering four for every Senator.[64]
Tobacco Underground 2010
Tobacco Underground, an ongoing project tracing the global trade in smuggled cigarettes,[65] produced by CPI's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, was honored with the 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.[66] that won the Overseas Press Club Award and Investigative Reporters and Editors's Tom Renner Award for crime reporting.[67][68]
Sexual Assault on Campus 2010
In 2010, CPI partnered with
Toxic Clout 2013
The year long investigation by CPI,
Secrecy for Sale: offshore accounts 2013 to present
In 2013,
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
Science for Sale
The 2016 series entitled Science for Sale included, the February 8, 2016 article "About Science for Sale",[81] 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?",[82] and the March 31, 2016 article "Senators seek better conflict disclosures for scientific articles."[83] 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".[83]
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.
BBB also found that "[c]ontracts between the Center for American Homeless Veterans and "its two main fundraisers" –
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."
Copycat bills
The CPI,
Reception
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".[96]
Funding from supporters of legal restrictions on campaign finance
Writing in
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.[98] 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.[99]
In another essay on CPI's website, Allison challenged CPI's critics, and Fund specifically, arguing that:[100]
[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".[101] 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.[102] 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."[103] 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.[102] 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."[104] The Looting the Seas series won two journalism awards: the Renner Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors[105] and the 2010 Whitman Bassow Award from the Overseas Press Club of America.[106]
Coordination with advocacy groups
In 2011,
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.[110]
CPI received the
In 2011, CPI won a James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism for their investigation of weak inspections endangering factory workers and surrounding communities.[114]
In 2012, CPI reporter
CPI's work has also received awards from
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.[117] 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.[118]
In 2022, the Center for Public Integrity and Transmitter Media was nominated for a Podcast & Radio
Published books
- Borders, Rebecca; Dockery, C.C. (1995). Beyond the Hill: A Directory of Congress from 1984 to 1993. ISBN 978-0-8191-9820-4.
- Lewis, Charles; Benes, Alejandro; O'Brien, Meredith; The Center for Public Integrity (1996). The Buying of the President. 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. 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. ISBN 978-0-380-79519-2.
- The Center for Public Integrity (2000). Citizen Muckraking: Stories and Tools for Defeating the Goliaths of Our Day. Common Courage Media. 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. ISBN 978-0-380-97682-9.
- Renzulli, Diane; Center for Public Integrity, The (2002). Capitol Offenders: How Private Interests Govern Our States. Public Integrity Books. 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. 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. ISBN 978-0-8071-3284-5.
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