Center for Online Investigative Research

Democracy depends on well-informed voters. With a rapidly changing media ecology, this need is more important than ever. The Center for Online Investigative Research will facilitate a well-informed citizenry by holiding the news media accountable to news consumers. COIR encourages all people to take a more active role in evaluating whether the news they consume is fair, accurate, and objective.

COIR will leverage its social networking technology to organize volunteer media watchdogs. They can come here to report news ethics violations as well as blog about their observations. Ultimately, once our community achieves critical mass we will raise funds to support quality journalism.