non profit organization genre public interest human rights investigative journalism founded 1987 founder families of south bronx headquarters south bronx new york united states website official website inner city press 1 is a public interest organization founded by matthew lee who serves as executive director . inner city press is best known for its investigations of the banking industry s treatment of low income communities of color at first within the united states and more recently around the world for example with regard to hsbc deutsche bank and others . in the spring of 2013 in the us inner city press fair finance watch has for example raised fair lending issues regarding investors bank see newark nj star ledger of april 30 2013 investors roma bank merger still awaiting regulator s approval http www.nj.com business index.ssf 2013 04 investors roma bank merger sti.html 2 contents 1 history 2 present 3 notes 4 external links history edit this section includes a list of references related reading or external links but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations . please help to improve this section by introducing more precise citations . december 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message inner city press was founded in 1987 in the south bronx of new york city . its first projects involved under housed people fixing up abandoned buildings . by the 1990s inner city press began working on issues of exclusion of financial services overburdening with environmental toxins and lack of accountability by government and corporations to low income areas . in 1994 inner city press challenges using the community reinvestment act resulted in four banks opening new branches in the south bronx . by 1998 inner city press challenges had resulted in over 7 billion of commitments in new lending to low income people . some in the banking industry opine that inner city press challenges are indiscriminate . in 1998 inner city press took the lead in opposing the merger of citicorp and travelers to form citigroup . inner city press spoke at both companies shareholders meetings commented to the federal reserve and ultimately initiated litigations against the merger the largest in the financial services industry . since then inner city press has pursued citigroup as it has made acquisitions in mexico and elsewhere while initiating similar campaigns regarding hsbc jpmorgan chase bank of america wachovia general electric deutsche bank royal bank of scotland aig wells fargo and others . the global work is done through the fair finance watch . inner city press executive director is matthew lee who is the author of the non fiction book predatory lending toxic credit in the global inner city and the novel predatory bender and an accredited journalist at the united nations . in august 2011 inner city press exclusively put online the un s internal plan for post gaddafi libya as credited and covered by al jazeera english . 3 in october 2012 lee and inner city press raised fair lending and compliance issues about m & t bank s application to acquire hudson city bancorp which remains unapproved as of may 2013 . 4 inner city press was profiled in the columbia journalism review guide by journalist armin rosen 5 online news start ups on march 11 2011 . 6 present edit in mid 2006 investigative journalism at the un by inner city press 7 exposed human rights abuses in the forcible disarmament programs carried out by the uganda people s defense force in the karamoja region of uganda . the united nations development programme halted its activities in the region . 8 in 2006 in u.s. journalism lee and inner city press were engaged in litigation to deem the citizens only provision of the freedom of information act of delaware and ten other states to be unconstitutional . on february 13 2008 google removed inner city press from google news allegedly due to pressure from the un . 9 as of 2015 however icp is active on google news alerts subscriptions . in 2012 after inner city press s reporting on sri lanka syria and un corruption the un apparently reneged on a commitment to renew inner city press accreditation amid a board of examination to expel inner city press started by the president and executive committee of the un correspondents association . 10 despite suggestions to the contrary inner city press un accreditation was renewed and he remains a member of the un press corps in good standing . inner city press lee became a subject of controversy for soe over the last year . a guardian uk article cited recounts how some unca executive committee members acted against inner city press lee after he reported that the unca president had a previous financial relationship with sri lanka s permanent representative to the un then agreed to screen for this ambassador his government s film denying war crimes . 11 in december 2012 along with luiz rampelotto of europa newswire inner city press co founded as an alternative to unca the new free un coalition for access . 12 inner city press continues to break and pursue stories for example in the spring of 2013 the auctioning off of an internship in the un for over 20 000 credited by among others talk radio news service 13 and on aljazeera.com 14 likewise inner city press continues reporting on sri lanka as for example credited in the colombo gazette of may 14 2013 . 15 in june 2013 inner city press exclusively as credited by the bbc bloomberg news and others put online the full text for the democratic republic of the congo sanctions group of experts report see e.g. july 2 2013 bloomberg news businessweek congo s army smuggling minerals in east congo un experts say inner city press a new york based investigative journalism organization published the document on its website on june 29 16 and see july 5 2013 bbc dr congo s m23 rebels rwandan support falling the report leaked by inner city press which follows un affairs 17 on august 13 2013 innercitypress was named to foreign policy magazine s top 100 twitterati list one of only two covering the un . 18 on august 15 2013 inner city press work covering the un security council on egypt was cited in buzz feed s story on the same subject . 19 on august 28 2013 inner city press reporting on syria was features in pacifica radio station kpfa s flashpoints program 20 and elsewhere 21 inner city press questioning of the un on when it asked the syrian government for access to al ghouta was played on democracy now on august 28 from minute 18 30 22 notes edit nonprofit report for inner city press community on the move inc . investors roma bank merger still awaiting regulator s approval . nj.com . un plan for post gaddafi libya leaked . al jazeera english . strictly business . strictly business . circle of pro israel writers rises . the jewish daily forward . 31 july 2012 . inner city press . columbia journalism review . in uganda undp s belated announcement of program halt leaves questions unanswered inner city press 6 28 06 undp suspends karamoja projects the new vision 6 28 06 journalist who exposes u.n. corruption disappears from google fox news 2 19 08 good journalism at the u.n. it might become harder to find national review 6 18 12 un journalists threaten to expel reporter . the guardian . free united nations coalition for access . free united nations coalition for access . spox un internships are not for sale . talk radio news service . meritocracy for sale . un unaware of letter from salley . colombo gazette . congo s army smuggling minerals in east congo un experts say . businessweek.com . bbc news dr congo s m23 rebels rwandan support falling . bbc news . the fp twitterati 100 . foreign policy . 20 august 2013 . u.s. doesn t join allies in calling for u.n. security council meeting on egypt . buzzfeed . flashpoints august 28 2013 at 5 00pm kpfa 94.1 fm berkeley listener sponsored free speech radio . un didn t ask for access in syria until saturday kansas city infozine . 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