Several journalists have started a nonprofit organization to pursue investigative reporting in the western United States and Canada, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

InvestigateWest made its debut on Wednesday with a small grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism and what its executive director, Rita Hubbard, called “sweat equity” from former staff members of the Post-Intelligencer, who are working with no pay. The Seattle newspaper shed most of its employees after switching to an online-only format this year.

The new site is a member of the Investigative News Network, started last week by some two dozen news-media outlets and organizations to support nonprofit investigative journalism.