Center for Online Investigative Research

Welcome to The Center for Online Investigative Research (COIR) -- a non-partisan community of citizens that believes that in order for our democracy to thrive, the electorate must be informed and its up to journalists to do that. However, commercial, political, legal, and technological pressures have made it difficult for news organizations to report the news we need to know. Increasingly, we are given the news they think we want to know or the news the powers that be want us to know. Increasingly, news is blending with commentary, particularly on television. And increasingly, the news media is being manipulated by highly sophisticated political and corporate entitites.

We want to help good news organizations and good reporters thrive by holding irresponsible journalists accountable to accepted industry standards. If journalists are the public watchdog, then we're the watchdog's watchdog.

We will harness the power of thousands of volunteer news consumers as they read, listen, and watch the news. They will come here to report factual errors, nonsensical analysis, and bias. They will come here to highlight the times news organzations are manipulated by the powers that be.

Once our community has grown in size, we will raise funding to support the efforts of stellar journalists.