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PROFILE: FIJ Mentor Pete Carey Lends 5 Decades of Journalism Experience to Grantees
A key component of FIJ's program is recruiting and matching veteran reporters to mentor grantees. Mentors advise on reporting techniques, and also coach grantees through the writing phase. One grantee told us his mentor tutored him in the art of "unspooling"...
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PROFILE: FIJ Mentor and Writing Coach Linda Jue on What Makes Her Job Special
Investigative reporters tend to spend most of their reporting and research time focused on acquiring the facts and data to document a wrongdoing. As a result, the fruit of their labor - the story - too often ends up dry and lifeless. The reader, listener or viewer is...
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Investigation Shows Native Americans More Likely to be Searched by Washington State Police
For more than twelve years, Washington State Patrol Troopers have been searching drivers from minority communities, particularly Native Americans, at a rate much higher — more than five times — than that of whites, FIJ grantees Jason Buch and Joy Borkholder, report...
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FIJ Board Member Clarence Page Celebrates 50th-Year Anniversary at the Chicago Tribune
FIJ's Board Member, Clarence Page, is celebrating his 50th-year anniversary as a syndicated columnist at the Chicago Tribune. "Few writers across the country approach politics, culture, and race with the depth and scholarship that Page brings to each of his columns,"...
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White Supremacist Groups Recruitment in Police Departments
For decades, anti-government and white supremacist groups have been attempting to recruit police officers – and the authorities themselves aren’t even certain about the scale of the problem, FIJ grantees Varnham O'Regan and Maddy Crowell, report for The Guardian. Hank...
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Efforts to Stave off Detroit Foreclosures Leaves Many Residents Deeper in Debt
Nearly one in four Detroit homeowners owes more in delinquent property taxes than they did three years ago despite being a part of a county program designed to help them get out of debt and avoid foreclosure, according to a Detroit News analysis. The payment plans,...
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Spiraling Immigration Costs Under Trump Put a Strain on Migrant Families
Even as the immigration court system becomes more and more backlogged — rising to more than 1 million cases in September — and detention facilities managed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have hit record levels, holding more than 50,000 people nationwide,...
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How a Georgia Jail Doctor Made a Fortune on Prisoners
For local law enforcement, health care for inmates can be a burden. For one doctor, it has been the opportunity of a lifetime. FIJ grantee Max Blau spent a year investigating how Dr. Carlo Musso, Georgia's former deathrow doctor, built a medical empire in Southern...
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A Murder in New Orleans and a Wrong Conviction
In 1988, Erin Hunter was convicted of a murder in New Orleans he claimed to know nothing about after a trial that took place in a single morning. Years later, the detective who investigated the case went to federal prison for extortion, the prosecutor remembered the...
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Danger in the Ground: Lead Contaminates Neighborhood
Despite alarmingly high levels of lead in the soil of a mostly poor, largely African American community in Atlanta that is now an EPA Superfund “removal action” site, there has been no effort by state or local officials to test children for contamination. An...
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FIJ, NAHJ, and the Miami Herald Media Company Name Diversity Fellow for 2020
(Washington, D.C.) December 12, 2019--The Fund for Investigative Journalism, in partnership with the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) and the Miami Herald Media Company, is proud to announce the selection of Romina Ruiz-Goiriena as the new diversity...
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California Foundation Created to Help Fire Victims More Interested in Lobbying for PG&E
The Rebuild North Bay Foundation was created in October 2017, ostensibly to provide relief to thousands of victims of wildfires in Sonoma and Napa counties in California. As Peter Byrne and Will Carruthers report in the Pacific Sun the foundation performed little or...
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