Editing Center for Public Integrity (section)

===2024–2025===

In February 2024, CEO Paul Cheung resigned. The board also acted to eliminate the position of editor-in-chief, a post that had been held by Matt DeRienzo.<ref name="2024NYT">{{cite news |last1=Mullin |first1=Benjamin |title=Center for Public Integrity Weighs Merger or Shutdown Amid Dire Financial Straits |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/business/media/center-for-public-integrity-financial-problems.html |access-date=March 1, 2024 |work=New York Times |date=February 28, 2024}}</ref>

CPI had a revenue goal of $6 million for 2023, and fell about $2.5 million short of that. According to the ''[[New York Times]]'', this shortfall created a situation of financial peril that threatened "to extinguish a newsroom of about 30 journalists that has watchdogged powerful institutions for decades."<ref name="2024NYT"/> Due to the organization's financial difficulties, CPI considered merging with a competitor or shutting down.<ref name="2024NYT"/> 

In March 2024, CPI laid off 11 newsroom employees.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tobitt |first=Charlotte |date=2024-03-12 |title=News media job cuts 2024 tracked: At least 980 redundancies in January and 615 in February |url=https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/journalism-job-cuts-2024/ |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=Press Gazette |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Schuman |first1=Daniel |author-link1=Daniel Schuman |title=Open-Government Nonprofits Are Dying Off Just When They're Needed Most |url=https://www.thebulwark.com/p/open-government-nonprofits-are-dying-off-just-when-needed-most |work=[[The Bulwark (website)|The Bulwark]] |date=16 December 2024}}</ref> That same month, [[Richard Tofel]], the former president of [[ProPublica]], wrote a [[Substack]] piece entitled "What Went Wrong at the Center for Public Integrity?" in which he discussed "what seems likely to be the end, one way or another, of CPI." Tofel identified considerable turnover at the top of the organization, cultural shortcomings of its board of directors, and strategic missteps as the three major factors which led to the organization's demise.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Tofel |first1=Richard J. |title=What Went Wrong at the Center for Public Integrity? |url=https://dicktofel.substack.com/p/what-went-wrong-at-the-center-for |publisher=Substack |access-date=25 March 2025 |date=21 March 2024}}</ref> In May 2024, a mass layoff saw almost all CPI workers lose their jobs.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lewis |first1=Katherine Reynolds |title=The reality of layoffs, beyond the national numbers |url=https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/reality-layoffs-behind-national-jobs-numbers-reynolds-lewis.php |access-date=25 March 2025 |work=Columbia Journalism Review |date=October 14, 2024 |language=en}}</ref>

CPI's last major piece was co-published in June 2024 and the organization had no staff by November 2024. In March 2025, CPI announced it had officially ceased operations and was in talks to give its archive to the [[Project on Government Oversight]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chan |first=Sewell |title=Center for Public Integrity Is Shutting Down |url=https://www.cjr.org/news/center-for-public-integrity-shutting-down.php |access-date=2025-04-01 |website=Columbia Journalism Review |language=en}}</ref>