Correctiv

The CORRECTIV (or CORRECT!V) is a German nonprofit investigative journalism newsroom whose stated goal is "to give citizens access to information."[1] With about 20 staff members, CORRECT!V is the only nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative center in Germany. CORRECT!V describes itself as an organization that is "one of the many answers to the media crisis."[1] CORRECT!V releases its reports in English, German and Russian languages via its web site to media outlets throughout Europe and around the globe.

CORRECT!V
Founded2014
FounderDavid Schraven, Christian Humborg; The Brost Foundation (Anneliese Brost’s legacy)
Typenon-profit
FocusInvestigative Journalism
Location
Area served
abuse of power, corruption, environment, education, health, social justice, right-wing extremism, religious extremism
MethodFoundation and Member Supported
Key people
David Schraven (publisher), David Crawford (senior reporter)
Employees
20
Volunteers
>500
Websitecorrectiv.org/en

History

CORRECT!V was initiated in 2014 by the charitable organization “CORRECTIV – Recherchen für die Gesellschaft” (“CORRECTIV – Research for Society”) based in Essen and has been supported by the Brost Foundation with a grant of €1 million per year for three years.[2]

Organizational structure

Funding

CORRECT!V is a nonprofit organization and exempt from taxation under German law. The funding comes entirely from charitable foundations as well as membership fees and donations from the users and readers. CORRECT!V does not depend on sales or advertising. All donations of more than €1000 are listed on the website. CORRECT!V is "nonprofit, independent and investigative".[1]

Board of directors

David Schraven is the publisher and Simon Kretschmer the executive director. [3]

Ideology

CORRECT!V wants "to make investigative and informative journalism affordable and accessible to media organizations throughout Germany."[1] For this reason, CORRECT!V is initiating an education program to pass on the methods of investigative journalism that could help to empower citizens to gain access to information and promote transparency.

Reports/Publications

CORRECT!V reported amongst other things on

  • "The System of Putin" (Dirty Money and State Collapse)[4]
  • "TTIP - The Deal" (Investigative, Analytic, Interactive: All about the Free Trade)[5]
  • "Flight MH17" (Searching for the truth)[6]
  • "The Invisibles" (Hundreds of thousands live in Germany without papers)[7]
  • "Weisse Wölfe" (A graphic investigation into the Nazi underground)[8]
  • "Court Donations" (How Judges And Prosecutors Hand Out Millions Every Year With Almost No Oversight)[9]
  • "Mafia in Africa" (How the mafia infiltrates the African economy)[10]
  • "Mafia" (Stories about the Mafia: drugs, dirty money, murder and investigations)[11]
  • "Deadly Superbugs" (An investigation of one of the largest health risks of the next decades)[12]
  • "Football Doping" (Everything about Doping and Painkillers in Football)[13]
  • "Generation E" (The big migration from South to North)[14]
  • Couchsurfing[15]
  • "Business Cheats" (How Fraudsters Turn Forged Bonds Into Cash)[16]
  • "Das Olivenöl-Kartell" (The Olive-Oil-Cartell)[17]
  • "CumEx-Files"[18]
  • "Grand Theft Europe"[19]

Flight MH17

CORRECT!V described the Flight MH17 as one of the greatest war crimes of modern times. Over several months it gathered facts, investigated in eastern Ukraine and Russia, and found witnesses to the missile launch, unveiled a clear chain of evidence that MH17 was downed by a BUK missile ground-launched by a unit of the 53rd Russian Air Defense Brigade from Kursk. The brigade unit operated in mid July on Ukrainian territory without displaying national emblems.[20] [21]

Awards
  • 2014: Journalist des Jahres in category "newcomer" for the team of Correctiv[22]
  • 2015: Grimme Online Award for their investigation „MH17 – Die Suche nach der Wahrheit“[23][24][25]
  • 2015: Deutscher Reporterpreis in category "innovation" for graphic feature „Weisse Wölfe“ by David Schraven and Jan Feindt[26]
  • 2015: Deutsch-Französischer journalism award for „MH17 – Die Suche nach der Wahrheit“[27]
  • 2016: Deutscher Reporterpreis in category "innovation"[28]
  • 2016: Journalist des Jahres in category "Team des Jahres" (Team of the year)[29]
  • 2016: LeadAward in category Independent of the year[30]
  • 2016: Axel Springer Preis in category "Investigation" for undercover-Feature „animal thieves“[31]
  • 2016: Award „Innovation of the year“ by magazin Wirtschaftsjournalist for developing the software CrowdNewsroom and the analysis of mutual banks "Sparkassen-Check"[32]
  • 2016: Deutscher Reporterpreis in category "innovation"[33]
  • 2017: ERM-Mediaaward for sustainable development. Award for Fabian Löhe and Annika Joeres for Correctiv[34]
  • 2018: Deutsch-Französischer journalism award for the project "searise" by Annika Joeres and Simon Jockers for Correctiv[35]
  • 2018: Dr.-Georg-Schreiber-Mediaaward[36]
  • 2018: Journalistenaward by Apothekerstiftung Westfalen Lippe for reporting on "Alte Apotheke"[37][38]
  • 2018: Otto-Brenner-Preis for journalism for the work „Er kommt am Abend“ und „Vergewaltigt auf Europas Feldern“ by Pascale Müller (Correctiv) and Stefania Prandi (BuzzFeed)[39]
  • 2018: UmweltMedienpreis ny Deutschen Umwelthilfe for the project „Irrsinn der Agrarpolitik“[40] by Justus von Daniels, Stefan Wehrmeyer and Annika Joeres for CORRECTIV
  • 2019: Nannen Preis in feature for article „Vergewaltigt auf Europas Feldern“ by Pascale Müller (Correctiv) and Stefania Prandi (BuzzFeed)[41][42]

References
  1. "About CORRECT!V". CORRECTIV. Retrieved 2015-08-21.
  2. Caroline O’Donovan (17 July 2014). "Germany is getting a data-centric nonprofit newsroom and hoping to build new models for news". NiemanLab. Harvard University. Retrieved 2015-08-21.
  3. "Board". CORRECTIV. Archived from the original on 2016-08-04. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  4. "The System Of Putin". correctiv.org. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
  5. "Das TTIP-Dossier". correctiv.org (in German). 2015-04-15. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
  6. "FLUG MH17 | MH17 – Hauptgeschichte – English". Retrieved 2019-05-09.
  7. "CORRECTIV - Recherchen für die Gesellschaft". correctiv.org. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
  8. "WEISSE WÖLFE - correctiv.org". weisse-woelfe-comic.de. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
  9. "Who gets money from judges and prosecutors?". correctiv.org. 2014-09-15. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
  10. "Who gets money from judges and prosecutors?". correctiv.org. 2014-09-15. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
  11. "Restituiti villa e denaro all'imprenditore Pelliccioni". correctiv.org (in German). 2018-05-15. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
  12. "Deadly Superbugs". correctiv.org. 2014-11-27. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
  13. "Doping in football". correctiv.org. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
  14. "generatione.correctiv.org | GENERATION E – Hauptgeschichte – English" (in German). Retrieved 2019-05-09.
  15. "CORRECT!V | COUCHSURFING" (in German). Retrieved 2019-05-09.
  16. "Business Cheats". correctiv.org. 2014-09-04. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
  17. "Das Olivenöl-Kartell |" (in German). Archived from the original on 2009-07-17. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
  18. "CORRECTIV - Investigative. Independent. Non-profit". cumex-files.com. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
  19. "Grand Theft Europe - A cross-border investigation". correctiv.org. 2019-05-07. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
  20. "Flight MH17". CORRECTIV. Retrieved 2015-08-21.
  21. ""Correctiv" und MH17 – eine Analyse". WIR!. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-08-21.
  22. Begründung der Jury vom 19. Dezember 2014, abgerufen am 19. Juni 2015.
  23. Grimme Online Award 2015. Ausgezeichnete Infos und Unterhaltung at the Wayback Machine (archived June 19, 2015). tagesschau.de, 19. Juni 2015.
  24. Grimme Online Award: „Tagesspiegel“-Chef für Newsletter ausgezeichnet. In: Der Tagesspiegel, 18. Juni 2015.
  25. Grimme Online Award 2015 – Preisträger. at the Wayback Machine (archived December 8, 2015)
  26. MEEDIA GmbH & Co. KG (2015-12-08). "Deutscher Reporterpreis 2015: Fünf Auszeichnungen für die Zeit". MEEDIA GmbH & Co. KG.
  27. Saarländischer Rundfunk (2015-07-01). "Deutsch-Französischer Journalistenpreis (DFJP) 2015 verliehen – Auszeichnung auch an Cartooning for Peace" (PDF). Deutsch-Französischer Journalistenpreis.
  28. Reporterpreis 2016 - Das sind die Preisträger In: Spiegel Online, 6. Dezember 2016.
  29. Medium Magazin (2016-12-23). "Das sind die Journalisten des Jahres 2016". medium magazin für Journalisten.
  30. LEADACADEMY für Medien e. V. "DIE PREISTRÄGER HAUPTKATEGORIE ONLINE INDEPENDENT DES JAHRES". LEADACADEMY für Medien e. V.
  31. MDR Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (2016-05-02). "Axel-Springer-Preis für"Die Tierdiebe" von Correctiv und "FAKT"". MDR Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk.
  32. Marc Bartl: „Stefan Baron für sein Lebenswerk ausgezeichnet: Gabriele Fischer ist "Wirtschaftsjournalistin des Jahres"“. kress NEWS, 21. Dezember 2016.
  33. "Deutscher Reporterpreis 2016 in Berlin verliehen". Reporter-Forum e. V. 2016-12-02.
  34. Gerhard Schmücker, HfWU. "Pressedienste & Social Media ERM-Medienpreis". Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nürtingen-Geislingen.
  35. Deutsch-Französisches Jugendwerk (2018-07-04). "Deutsch-Französischer Journalistenpreis 2018 verliehen". Deutsch-Französisches Jugendwerk DFJW.
  36. AOK Bayern (2016-05-02). "Dr. Georg Schreiber-Medienpreis der AOK Bayern". GKV-Netzwerk.
  37. Apothekerkammer Westfalen-Lippe (2018-04-24). "Fünf Beiträge zu Pharmazie und Apotheke ausgezeichnet". Apothekerkammer Westfalen-Lippe.
  38. Pharmazeutische Zeitung online (2018-04-24). "Journalistenpreis: Platz eins für Recherche zum Zytoskandal". Mediengruppe Deutscher Apotheker GmbH.
  39. "Otto Brenner Stiftung zeichnet zum 14. Mal herausragenden Journalismus aus". 2018-10-18.
  40. "Deutsche Umwelthilfe e. V.: Die Preisträger".
  41. MEEDIA GmbH & Co. KG (2019-05-09). "Nannen Preis 2019: Das sind die Nominierten in den einzelnen Kategorien". Meedia Newsletter. MEEDIA GmbH & Co. KG.
  42. "Die Nannen-Preisträger 2019". Deutschlandfunk. 2019-05-28.

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