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The Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ), is a non-profit organization providing training to journalists, researchers, producers and students in the practice and methodology of investigative journalism. Funded in 2003, using grants from the Lorana Sullivan Foundation, the Centre organizes annual 3-day summer schools, and has provided training to hundreds of journalists, researchers and students from over 30 countries. CIJ is based at the Department of Journalism at City University, in London. The Centre actively supports Freedom of Information, Computer Assisted Reporting , and the protection of whistleblowers and is not aligned with any government, political, or commercial interest. CIJ’s training programmes are designed to encourage reporting and research about the integrity and transparency of institutional power. CIJ has conducted training programmes in 15 countries in all print and broadcast media. The CIJ offers particular assistance to those working in difficult environments where free speech and freedom of the press are under threat, and where reporting can be a dangerous occupation. CIJ’s supporters include reporters from the Sunday Times Insight Team, World in Action producers, BBC Radio and Television, Channel Four, Private Eye, Canal Plus (Paris), CBS 60 Minutes and the New York Times. By 2007 CIJ acquired registered charity status and attracted support from a number of foundations including the Open Society Institute, The David & Elaine Potter Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Park Foundation, City University London and several smaller private trusts.

In 2009, CIJ has been instrumental in helping found the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, an independent, foundation-supported producer of in-depth reporting in defence of the public interest.