The Investigative Commons is a collaboratively maintained repository of datasets and document archives useful for investigative reporting to ensure long-term access to evidence.
Currently, datasets (evidence) for investigative journalism are maintained by several media organizations and journalism networks, which can’t be reliable long-term partners for data accessibility due to changing priorities of newsrooms and the specific funding situation of investigative journalism. Even further, organizations involved in investigative research and publishing stories should not even take the burden off providing long-term equal access to evidence data (though it’s appreciated if they can afford it for some time).
We want to launch this new project and show the different available datasets and how everyone can use them. Further, we will explain how to contribute to this open and community-driven project and discuss further plans and ideas from the community.
