Founded 2014 Type Nonprofit organization | Number of employees 20 | |
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Focus Investigative Journalism Area served abuse of power, corruption, environment, education, health, social justice, right-wing extremism, religious extremism Method Foundation and Member Supported Key people David Schraven (publisher), Christian Humborg (executive director), David Crawford (senior reporter) Similar Transparency International, Center for Investigative Reporting, ProPublica, Reporters Without Borders, International Consortium of Investi Profiles | ||
Corrective exercise for forward head posture and upper crossed syndrome
The CORRECT!V (or CORRECTIV) is a German nonprofit investigative journalism newsroom whose stated goal is "to give citizens access to information." 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." CORRECT!V releases its reports in English, German and Russian languages via its web site to media outlets throughout Europe and around the globe.
Contents
- Corrective exercise for forward head posture and upper crossed syndrome
- Corrective deadlifting
- History
- Funding
- Board of directors
- Ideology
- Reports
- Flight MH17
- Awards
- References
Corrective deadlifting
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.
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".
Board of directors
David Schraven is the publisher and Christian Humborg the executive director. Markus Grill is the editor in chief.
Ideology
CORRECT!V wants "to make investigative and informative journalism affordable and accessible to media organizations throughout Germany." 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
CORRECT!V reported on "The System of Putin" (Dirty Money and State Collapse), "TTIP - The Deal" (Investigative, Analytic, Interactive: All about the Free Trade), "Flight MH17" (Searching for the truth), "The Invisibles" (Hundreds of thousands live in Germany without papers), "Weisse Wölfe" (A graphic investigation into the Nazi underground), "Court Donations" (How Judges And Prosecutors Hand Out Millions Every Year With Almost No Oversight), "Mafia in Africa" (How the mafia infiltrates the African economy), "Mafia" (Stories about the Mafia: drugs, dirty money, murder and investigations), "Deadly Superbugs" (An investigation of one of the largest health risks of the next decades), "Football Doping" (Everything about Doping and Painkillers in Football), "Generation E" (The big migration from South to North), Couchsurfing, "Business Cheats" (How Fraudsters Turn Forged Bonds Into Cash), "Das Olivenöl-Kartell", etc.
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.
Awards
In 2015, CORRECT!V won a Grimme Online Award for their investigation "MH17 – Die Suche nach der Wahrheit".