With the generous support of The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, CIR is embarking on an initiative to convene a variety of stakeholders around an investigative collaboration in New Jersey that actively incorporates insights and experiences from residents along the way.
Cole Goins
Director of Community Engagement
Cole Goins is the director of community engagement for Reveal, where he cultivates partnerships that blend in-depth journalism and creative public engagement. He has built and supported distribution networks, spearheaded arts-based initiatives such as the Off/Page Project, led social media and audience strategy, and facilitated statewide media collaborations. He was a senior fellow in the 2015 USC Annenberg Health Journalism Fellowships, mentoring five journalists on approaches to community engagement. Previously, Goins was the engagement editor at the Center for Public Integrity, where he led audience development initiatives and multimedia features for award-winning investigative projects. He earned a degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he worked as music director for WXYC, the student-run radio station. He is based in Reveal's Emeryville, California, office.
Posted inInside the Newsroom
Art, journalism and local surveillance collide in ‘Eyes on Oakland’
In The Center for Investigative Reporting’s ongoing experiments at the intersection of art, investigative journalism and community engagement, we’re about to present our work to two new venues: the Oakland Museum of California and a Ford Falcon van.
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CIR and CCA to launch collaborative animated investigations course
The Center for Investigative Reporting and the California College of the Arts’ animation program will lead a class in which students will explore creative forms of visualization on the foundations of fact-based storytelling.
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Meet Niema Jordan, new program manager for the Off/Page Project
As Off/Page’s new program manager, Jordan will work to find radical new ways to empower youth through an experimental mix of poetry and fact-based reporting.
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Get CIR’s state-by-state data on regulations for armed security guards
As part of Hired Guns, our new investigation with CNN, we combed through the various levels of training and regulations that each state mandates for armed security guards. Spoiler alert: Most states don’t require much.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Guns, Hired Guns
Get CIR’s state-by-state data on regulations for armed security guards
Whether you’re a reporter writing a story about how your state regulates (or doesn’t regulate) armed guards, or an interested citizen wanting to learn more, just fill out our form to get access.
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Reimagining the newsstand for a digital era at TechRaking 7
CIR teamed up with design students to reinvent the print newsstand for the digital age. How could we rethink this physical gateway for the news in our communities?
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The language of impact: Building a common taxonomy
One of the biggest challenges in The Center for Investigative Reporting’s ongoing quest to define and measure media impact is finding a common vocabulary for communicating it outside our own newsroom.
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Go inside Michigan’s arsenic problem with 2 live events
Following up on our “Reveal” investigation, Michigan Radio is hosting two events this week to discuss arsenic contamination in the state’s drinking water and what to do about it.
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Iraq and Afghanistan veterans: What’s your experience with the GI Bill?
The GI Bill is intended to help U.S. veterans live the American dream. But as The Center for Investigative Reporting’s investigation has found, for-profit colleges are reaping billions of dollars in GI Bill funds while leaving some veterans with few job prospects and worthless degrees. To help inform our reporting, we want to hear about […]