The Center for Public Integrity, founded in 1989 by Charles Lewis, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization in Washington that concentrates on ethics and public service issues. Access to some of the Center's investigative studies is available free online; others can be purchased. For reporters, researchers and students, the Center provides a number of full databases for download. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a project of the Center for Public Integrity, extends globally the Center's style of "watchdog journalism" in the public interest by marshaling the talents of the world's leading investigative reporters to produce transnational investigative studies. The site also includes accesss to the center's newsletter.