The Florida Center for Investigative Reporting has received a $100,000 grant from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation.
This is second year that EEJF, an Oklahoma City-based foundation that supports projects designed to improve the quality and ethical standards of journalism, has provided funding to FCIR.
Launched in September 2010, FCIR is Florida’s only nonprofit, digital and bilingual investigative journalism organization. With media partners including Florida’s NPR affiliates, the Miami Herald, CBS4 and Holavision TV, FCIR produces multiplatform journalism in the public interest.
“FCIR couldn’t have planned a better way to celebrate our first birthday, and we thank the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation for the grant to continue our important mission,” said Sharon Rosenhause, FCIR’s board president. “We take it as a vote of confidence in our work and our future. We have exciting plans for FCIR’s second year, and I hope that our growing audience will also be inspired to support accountability journalism in Florida.”