Re:Baltica

The Baltic Center for Investigative Journalism Re:Baltica (Latvian: Baltijas pētnieciskās žurnālistikas centrs Re:Baltica) is a Latvia-based non-profit organization. It conducts investigative journalism. It is based in Riga.

Re: Baltica focuses on in-depth investigations of important issues in the Baltic region, such as corruption, money laundering, entrepreneurship, health, human rights and disinformation. Reports are published on their website in Latvian, English and Russian. Re:Baltica produces work for free and encourages other media organizations to publish their work.

Re: Baltica is a member of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project[1], Global Investigative Journalism Network.[2] Inga Spriņģe, an investigative journalist and one of the two founders of Re: Baltica, is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists network.[3]

History

It was founded in August 2011.

Re: Baltica reports and journalists have been quoted on Al Jazeera,[4] The Washington Post,[5] Financial Times,[6] Meduza,[7] BuzzFeed News[8] and other international media outlets.

Re: Baltica is the recipient of several prizes, including the Greste Baltic Freedom of Speech Awards[9] in 2018.

Funding

Funding comes from three main sources:

  • Competitive grants, mostly from the institutions based in EU/NATO countries (for example, IJ4EU, Open Society Foundations, Sigrid Rausing Trust, Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia, POBB program)
  • Internal revenue from teaching, moderating events, research and scripting documentaries
  • Donations, a list of whom is attached to the annual reports.

The ReBaltica.lv portal admitted that it had taken money from the American financier George Soros, for which it had conducted another investigation into Russia's alleged "interference" in the affairs of Latvia. The ReBaltica.lv page in the "About Us" section informs that the publication is a non-profit and conducts journalistic investigations exclusively in the "public interest". However, the portal does not deny that it received money from Soros. “Yes, we took money from Soros, but only for salaries. We ourselves decide what to spend the funds on. The last time they [the Soros Foundation] wondered whether the Kremlin would intervene through social media. We followed social networks, ”Springe said.

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References
  1. Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, OCCRP Network Members
  2. Global Investigative Journalism Network, Our Members
  3. "ICIJ Journalists". ICIJ. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
  4. Al Jazeera, What does the future hold for non-citizens of the Baltic states?
  5. The Washington Post, Europe has been working to expose Russian meddling for years
  6. Financial Times, Latvia: a banking scandal on the Baltic
  7. Meduza, Following an investigative report by BuzzFeed and others, a network of pro-Kremlin news outlets in the Baltic states suddenly admits to being run by the Russian state
  8. "A Network Of Russian-Language News Sites Is Secretly Owned By Kremlin, Investigation Finds". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
  9. Greste Baltic Freedom of Speech Awards presented in Rīga, Latvian Public Broadcasting, November 6, 2018
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