Founder & Executive Director
As a veteran reporter and editor, Rose Ciotta wanted to do something to help save local news. An alumna of the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford University, she won the support of The Jim Bettinger News Innovation Fund to pilot Investigative Editing Corps in two local newsrooms. She’s a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative editor who co-edited an investigation of violence in the Philadelphia schools that won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service for The Philadelphia Inquirer. She’s been an investigative editor at EdSource in California and a reporter and data editor at The Buffalo News. She also worked as an investigative producer at WIVB-TV in Buffalo. Most recently she was a senior investigations editor at The Atlanta Journal Constitution. She’s a former board member of Investigative Reporters & Editors.
Deputy Director
Dianna Hunt is a longtime investigative reporter and editor who directed and edited the Pulitzer Prize-finalist breaking news coverage of Hurricane Harvey while metro editor of the Houston Chronicle. She has also worked for The Dallas Morning News, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and other publications. Most recently, she served as national editor at ICT, formerly Indian Country Today. She served three terms on the board of Investigative Reporters and Editors and is currently on the board of the Fund for Investigative Journalism. She is now a contributing editor for ICT and for Public Health Watch.
