Investigative Journalism and Arts Combine to Reach Wider Audience

The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) has found new and surprising ways to reach audiences through arts. CIR has partnered with Tides Theatre in San Francisco to adapt investigative news articles and a documentary film into one-act plays. CIR is also collaborating with arts organizations in Berkeley, California to showcase animated shorts based on the news.

Another CIR initiative brings spoken-word poet José Vadi onto its staff. Mr. Vadi is leading the Off/Page Project, which will empower youth to combine investigative reporting with storytelling, for example, pairing a teenager's firsthand account on gun violence, with data about the neighborhood.

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund provides general support to CIR through the United States portfolio of the Democratic Practice program.

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