Collaborate with Us

With a proven track record of producing stories that result in policy reforms, new laws and increased public awareness, InvestigateWest is committed to expanding its reach through collaboration with local news outlets across the region. We understand the financial and staffing challenges facing many local newsrooms, including our own, and our collaboration model is designed to alleviate those pressures while amplifying the collective impact of our work.

Investigative journalism, in particular, requires resources, expertise, and time that many outlets simply cannot afford. That’s where collaboration comes in.

Collaborative investigative journalism:

• Maximizes resources: By pooling expertise, staffing and funding, newsrooms can produce high-impact investigative stories that would otherwise be out of reach for any one outlet.
• Expands reach and impact: By working together, multiple outlets can ensure that important investigations reach a larger, more diverse audience, multiplying the chances for real-world change.
• Strengthens local journalism ecosystems: Collaboration lifts up smaller, under-resourced outlets with the resources and expertise needed to pursue accountability journalism.
• Builds trust and credibility: Transparent collaborations between outlets strengthen public trust in journalism by showing readers and viewers that their news sources are working together in the public interest.

Our approach to collaboration can be tailored to what's needed: We provide partner newsrooms with resources, expertise, and support, enabling them to continue serving their communities while tackling in-depth, accountability-driven stories that resonate across the region.

We have hired a “collaborative investigative reporter” who will work with outlets across Washington state. And we recently hired a second collaborative reporter for Oregon, who started in July 2025. In the meantime, our entire organization is putting collaboration at the center of what we do. We are actively seeking to team up with news outlets across the region, including Idaho and Oregon.

Whether you have an investigative idea that needs support or you’re looking to expand your newsroom’s capacity, we are ready to work alongside you to produce stories that matter. To start a conversation, please fill out this collaboration form.