President — John Temple, former editor and publisher of the Rocky Mountain News
Vice President — Brant Houston, Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting at the University of Illinois, chairman of the National Investigative News Network steering committee and former director of Investigative Reporters and Editors
Secretary/Treasurer — Paul Voakes, Dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado
I-News currently is expanding its board of directors. If you know someone who is passionate about public affairs, please recommend that person to I-News.

The I-News business plan is like a four-legged stool, each representing a diverse stream of revenue:
* partnerships with media outlets to deliver content
* grants and donations
* corporate underwriting
* non-journalism products and services (such as training seminars and specialized data analysis)

I-News is a founding member of the national Investigative News Network. http://investigativenewsnetwork.org/ This national group includes nonprofit investigative journalism organizations from across the nation — from Voice of San Diego to the Center for Public Integrity, from NPR and PBS to the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism.
Collaborating on both reporting and the business of operating a nonprofit, network members are able to leverage resources and make their dollars — and their reporting — go farther.

I-News has raised more than a third of its Phase I budget from in-kind, pro bono and grant donations.
Director Laura Frank currently is supported by a Ted Scripps Fellowship at the University of Colorado.
Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, one the nation’s leading media law firms, is providing pre-publication vetting of stories.
Kendall, Koenig & Oelsner, a top business law firm in Denver, is providing nonprofit startup legal services.
The University of Colorado is providing significant grant and in-kind contributions. I-News is a partner in the new CU Digital Test Kitchen, helping find …

Newsrooms across Colorado are half the size they were just a few years ago. Often, there are only enough reporters left to fill the daily demands of a morning newspaper, evening newscast, or to-the-minute web updates.
That can leave literally no one to dig deeper into matters of public interest. The newsrooms face the gut-wrenching choices of which stories they have to ignore, while knowing there are even more stories that remain undiscovered.
I-News, the Rocky Mountain Investigative News Network, was created to help fill this void.
I-News does not take audience away …