Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting launches website

The newly formed Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting (CCIR) has launched its website and accompanying blog, Investigate This!.

The Centre’s mandate is to “produce thoroughly researched reporting in the public interest.”

Investigative reporter Bilbo Poynter is executive director and other associates and board members involved include freelance reporter Susanna Kelley and journalists Bruce Livesey, Alex Roslin and Daniel Sanger, among others.

Read a September 2008 welcome letter from CCIR board president Pamela C. Cross.