CORRECTIV CrowdNewsroom

CORRECTIV CrowdNewsroom is a non-profit association based in Bern, Switzerland working on democracy & civil society.

CORRECTIV CrowdNewsroom is a non-profit association and public-benefit gGmbH based in Bern, Switzerland, with an association under Swiss law in Zurich. It is the Swiss subsidiary of the CORRECTIV research network. It runs crowd-sourced journalistic investigations in which citizens share knowledge, data and evidence through a secure digital platform, and journalists then analyse and publish the results with media partners and civil society groups. Its work aims to strengthen democracy, promote public discussion, support trust in independent media and help people distinguish reliable news from misinformation. Investigations have covered topics such as domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic, parking and housing in Basel and Zurich, doping among amateur football players in Germany, school routes in Switzerland and charcoal trade in Somalia. The organisation aims to make crowd-based investigative research accessible to anyone worldwide who wants to run it.