Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting

Its independence is claimed to be assured by a firewall between it and its funding individuals and organizations, and it publishes its list of donors annually.

Louisville's Courier-Journal wrote that KyCIR was "augmenting those of traditional media" and that "When it comes to participating in a democracy, the more fact-based journalism, the better.

[6][7][8] In another story which received regional recognition, the KyCIR reported on the banishment of a mentally ill man from Carrollton, Kentucky by the sheriff, in violation of court orders, sending him to Florida.

[9] In December 2017, the KyCIR released "The Pope's Long Con", the results of an investigation of an evangelical minister and state representative, Dan Johnson, who had been accused of molestation of a 17-year-old family friend.

The story, the product of over 100 interviews and reviews of over 1,000 documents, detailed Johnson's long history of arson, insurance fraud, illegal alcohol sales and preposterous claims that included raising of the dead and tales of claimed heroism at the Twin Towers.