The San Diego-based nonprofit newsroom inewsource has published in-depth accountability reporting since 2009. The vision? “Betrayals of the public trust are revealed and rectified, wrongdoing is deterred, and inequities are illuminated thanks to inewsource’s deep, dogged, fact-based reporting,” according to the site. Recent series have looked at the toll of Border Patrol chases, prisoner deaths during the height of Covid-19, and wage theft throughout San Diego County. Over the years, reporting from inewsource has prompted statewide legislation, new policies to reign in governmental graft, and other change.
But there’s an issue, says inewsource founder, editor, and CEO Lorie Hearn, “Not enough people see our work and we need to change that.”
