Correctiv

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Correctiv

Founded	2014
Founder	David Schraven
Type	Non-profit
Focus	Investigative journalism
Location	Berlin, Germany; Essen, Germany
Area served	Abuse of power, corruption, environment, education, health, social justice, right-wing extremism, religious extremism
Method	Foundation and member supported
Key people	David Schraven (publisher), David Crawford (senior reporter)
Employees	70
Volunteers	>500
Website	correctiv.org/en

Correctiv (self-styled CORRECT!V) is a German nonprofit investigative journalism newsroom based in Essen and Berlin. It is run by CORRECTIV – Recherchen für die Gesellschaft gemeinnützige GmbH ("CORRECTIV – Investigations for the Society Charitable Limited"), which also runs the online journalism academy Reporterfabrik.^[1]

It’s stated goals are to provide free, independent journalism accessible to everyone. Furthermore the collective aims to counter disinformation to strengthen democratic structures.^[2][3]

Correctiv counts more than 70 employees and associates^[4] and states to be the first nonprofit investigative center in Germany due to being exclusively financed by donations and fundings since 2014. The collective describes itself as an organization that is "one of the many answers to the media crisis."^[3] Correctiv publishes reports in multiple languages beside German including Arabic, English, French, Russian and Turkish, via its website and partner outlets.