CIReN - The Cyprus Investigative Reporting Network is an independent non-profit investigative media platform supported by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Network OCCRP and the Institute for Mass Media IMME. It emerged from a training project developed in 2022 by OCCRP and IMME, under which journalists from the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities connected over public interest stories impacting the island. The project had made clear that corruption and poor governance affected both sides of the UN buffer zone, often feeding on the decades-long political division.
Since April 2024 CIReN operates as an entirely autonomous, full-fledged newsroom, owned and managed by its journalists. It produces investigations which are rooted in rigorous research, fact-checking, strict editorial processes and transparency and publishes its stories in English, Greek and Turkish.
CIReN does not publish advertisements or advertorials. It is financed from contributions and donations from natural and legal persons, through tenders issued by recognised international institutions, non-governmental organisations and philanthropic foundations and through story-driven collaborations by participating in investigative consortiums. To date it has secured funding from the CIVITATES Foundation, the European Media and Information Fund, the Gulbenkian Foundation, the Journalism Fund and OCCRP. It is a member of the Global Investigative Journalism Network: www.ciren.cy