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Recent Grants2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000- Back to top
JANET GARDNER -- Janet Gardner's The Last Ghost of War is an award winning documentary about the devastating and long-lasting effects of Agent Orange, which caused genetic defects that have been passed on for generations of Vietnamese. Between 3.5 and 5 million Vietnamese were exposed to it and their children and children's children are paying the price. CHICAGO REPORTER -- The Chicago Reporter published a study of more than 625,000 first mortgages for owner-occupied homes in the Chicago area and found that it was first in the nation for high-cost loans to whites and second only to D.C. in high-cost loans to blacks. Black homeowners who used Wells Fargo got high cost loans 37 per cent of the time compared to five per cent of whites who used the giant bank. JAMES CARRIER -- James Carrier wrote All You Can Eat for Orion Magazine about the devastating effects of shrimp farming throughout the world. Some shrimp are raised in such dirty water that antibiotics must routinely be used. Even in the best farms, two to four pounds of sea life is caught and ground up for every pound of shrimp caught. In the U. S., 90 per cent of our shrimp come from foreign farms and FDA sample less than 1 per cent of it. RACHEL GRAVES -- Rachel Graves and the Houston Chronicle published an article on the politics of gun control. She later did a similar article in the Sept. 5, 2007, edition of the Christian Science Monitor, Gun Debate Muzzles the Middle Ground. Her articles focused on antagonism between the Brady campaign and the NRA created and precluded compromise. SAMUEL AUSTIN MERRILL -- Samuel Austin Merrill's Letter from Timbuktu, an article on U. S. military training of West African troops in a counterterrorism program, was published on Vanity Fair's website in September 2007. It was an interesting look at a preventive Special Forces program that includes medical and humanitarian assistance for impoverished villagers as well as Malian soldiers. It produced mixed results in local attitudes, from gratitude to al-Qaeda-inspired antagonism. MARIA O'DONNELL -- Maria O'Donnell examined media manipulation in Argentina through government-controlled advertising for Radio Mitre. The article, published in 2006, made it to the finals of an important investigative journalism contest in Latin America and led to a book, based on the same investigation. KENT PATERSON -- Kent Paterson authored a print-radio series on hazardous materials shipments on the U. S.-Mexico border post 9-11, cruise ship tourism and corruption in US border law enforcement. Series was aired and published 2007-2008. GARETH PORTER -- Gareth Porter completed a penetrating investigation of the 1996 truck bomb explosion in the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 US airmen and wounded 372. In a five-part series for the Inter Press Service News Agency (July 2009), he uncovered a deliberate Saudi effort, aided and abetted by then FBI Director Louis Freeh, to pin the blame on Iran and divert attention from the real perpetrators, Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda. PROGRESSIVE MAGAZINE -- Progressive Magazine celebrated its 100th anniversary with a FIJ-supported book devoted to many of its best investigative articles, from Robert LaFollette's 1921 investigation of Teapot Dome to a 2001 expose of how the U.S. used sanctions to degrade Iraq's water supply following the Gulf War. 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000- Back to topBART JONES -- Bart Jones completed his investigative biography of Hugo Chavez, titled Hugo! : The Hugo Chavez Story from Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution. The book was published by Steer Forth Press. One reviewer called it a "masterful achievement that finally puts this crucial Latin American figure … into context within Venezeula, within Latin America, as well as internationally." RACHEL GRAVES -- Rachel Graves completed her article tracking the easy flow of handguns from manufacturer to owners - both legal and illegal - and about the politics of the gun ownership debate. It was published by the Christian Science Monitor. PHIL BURNHAM -- Phil Burnham completed his article on the gradual disappearance of African Americans from Williamsburg since the Rockefeller Foundation turned it into a tourist attraction. He also completed his series of articles on the taking of Native American property by the U.S. military during World War II. REBECCA CLARREN -- Rebecca Clarren completed her article on agricultural pesticide drift and measures that a local community has taken to monitor it effects. It was published by Orion magazine. Clarren also now has a regular blog on agricultural and environmental issues published by High Country News. Her article on the ethanol craze in the Midwest was published by The Utne Reader. CHRIS KETCHAM -- Chris Ketcham completed his article questioning whether the government is compiling a list of people who should be detained in the event of declaration of martial law. It was published by Radar magazine. CHRIS PALA -- Chris Pala completed his article on the effect that "algae farming" is having on the world's coral reefs. It was published by the New York Times. 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000- Back to top
CHICAGO REPORTER -- The Chicago Reporter published its article on the use of city employees to gather nominating petitions for Mayor Daley and his cohorts. MARY BETH PFEIFFER -- Mary Beth Pfeiffer completed her book on the treatment of mentally ill people held in America's prisons. It is titled Crazy in America. TRUDY LIEBERMAN -- Columbia Journalism Review published Trudy Lieberman's article on hospitals' manipulation of local television news programs to get free publicity. BAZ DREISINGER -- Baz Dreisinger completed her article on a radical Islamist movement on the island of Trinadad. MIKE ANANE -- The Ghanaian Observer and Public Agenda have published Mike Anane's stories about the environmental and economic consequences of open-pit gold mining by Western-owned companies in Ghana. AMY BACH -- Amy Bach has completed the manuscript for her book on the American justice system. It will be published in January 2009 by Metropolitan Books. 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000- Back to topMARY JONES & BEAUTY TURNER -- Mary Johns and Beauty Turner have completed a series of articles investigating the way in which Chicago public housing redevelopment is affecting the city's crime rate. The articles were published in Residents' Journal, a publication produced by public housing residents. Their work has won several honors, including the New America Award and the Peter Lisagor Award. RICK COHEN -- Non-Profit Quarterly has published a lengthy article investigating Faith and Money in the Bush Administration. The article explores "the deceptions and dangers" that occur when "politics and nonprofits mix for political ends". The carefully documented article - it even has footnotes - was written by Rick Cohen. JEANNE BARON -- Jeanne Baron completed her report on women in Rwanda who were raped and subsequently infected with HIV. Her report was broadcast on the NPR program All Things Considered. KATHERINE EBAN -- Katherine Eban's book on counterfeit drugs, Dangerous Doses, has been reissued in paperback with a new chapter and updated material. MICHAEL SHAPIRO -- Columbia Journalism Review published an examination of the Philadelphia Inquirer and its effort to reinvent itself in an era of cutbacks and declining circulation. The article, published shortly before the sale of Knight Ridder to the McClatchy chain, was written by Michael Shapiro. KAI WRIGHT -- Kai Wright completed his investigation of inadequate and ineffective HIV prevention policies in federal and state prisons. His article was published in The Progressive magazine. TINKER READY -- Tinker Ready's article investigating conflicts of interest in health advocacy organizations that receive money from pharmaceutical companies was published in the Washington Post. GARRANCE BURKE -- Garrance Burke won the Society of Professional Journalists' award for best online reporting for her investigation of the ongoing strife in Chiapas, Mexico. HILARY ABRAMSON -- Hilary Abramson completed her project on the lack of interpreters in medical facilities - a right mandated by federal law - available to assist non-English-speaking patients. "The two out of five Los Angeles residents who speak Spanish at home would find it easier to buy a can of paint at Lowe's than explain to a public hospital emergency room doctor where it hurts." Her article was distributed by New America Media and published in the Sacramento Bee and elsewhere. STEVE HENDRICKS -- Steve Hendricks' book on the struggle between the FBI and Native Americans in the 1970s was published by Thunder's Mouth Press. Unquiet Grave: The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country was called "investigative journalism at its gutsiest, at its noblest" by author Studs Terkel. ALICIA SHEPARD -- Alicia Shephard's book, Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate, was published by John Wiley & Sons. "Alicia Shepard has long been one of the nation's most important writers on journalism," wrote Gene Roberts. "Now she turns her attention to two of history's most famous journalists. Her book is a winner--penetrating, fascinating, and remarkably balanced." REBECCA CLARREN -- Rebecca Clarren's article on the health and environmental consequences of "fracking" a new process of natural gas extraction, was published by Salon, the online magazine. Additional articles on her investigation were published this week by Orion magazine in its print and online editions. One of the EPA's own engineers called the agency's failure to investigate "irrational and corrupt." Both publications credited the Fund's support. MARIA O' DONNELL -- Maria O'Donnell's investigation of Rudy Ulloa and press corruption in was published in Noticias, Argentina's best-selling news magazine, under the headline El Hombre del millon de Pesos. Ulloa is the president's former driver who has been able to channel large amounts of government money into press manipulation to benefit himself. ELIZABETH GROSSMAN -- Elizabeth Grossman's book, High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxins,
and Human Health, has been published by Island Press. Her article on the
role of IBM in polluting an area of New York state was published in
The Nation magazine. One review called the book "a Silent Spring for
the new millennium". 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000- Back to top
JASON BERRY -- Jason Berry's Vows of Silence, a film based on his book, co-authored with Gerald Renner, won the Best TV Documentary Award at the 2008 Mexico City International Documentary Film Festival. The film follows the Vatican investigation of accused sex abuser Father Maciel, founder of the Legionaries of Christ. It is based on a 2004 book of the same title, for which Berry and Renner received the Fund's 2002 annual book award. In December 2004, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger ordered an investigation of Maciel. The film follows the investigation through Ratzinger's election as Pope Benedict XVI, and his decision in 2006 to remove Maciel from active ministry. In 2009 the Vatican opened an investigation of the entire religious order. The film has been shown on pay-per-view in Italy, with airdates in Spain and Ireland. KATHERINE EBAN FINKELSTEIN -- Katherine Eban Finkelstein's book about stolen, tainted and counterfeit prescription drugs, Dangerous Doses, has been published by Harcourt. Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights, offered this praise: "This is a book that comes along so rarely in non-fiction-brilliantly reported, written with the pace of a potboiler and harrowing in its societal repercussions. In Dangerous Doses, Katherine Eban takes us on a journey into the underbelly of the pharmaceutical industry so spooky and strange and sinister and deadly, you will have a hard time believing it is true. But it is, every word, which only makes Dangerous Doses shine even more." An excerpt of the book will appear in Vanity Fair magazine, and she is currently on a book tour. THE DUNCAN GROUP -- The Cost of Freedom, a video documentary examining the impact of the USA Patriot Act on civil liberties. The 60-minute documentary aired on public television channels across the nation. STEPHANIE MENCIMER -- Stephanie Mencimer, recipient of the Fund's 2004 book award for her investigation of the "tort reform" movement, has been involved in a fierce exchange of views with Stuart Taylor, who reports on legal issues for Newsweek magazine. The argument has played out in The Washington Monthly, CNN's Lou Dobbs program, a website called Overlawyered and elsewhere. She's more than holding her own. JORDAN GREEN -- completed a series of articles on the Bush administration's enforcement of voting rights laws that appeared in Southern Exposure magazine and its website. MARIAH BLAKE -- Mariah Blake's article investigating Jonathan Keith Idema, an American vigilante in Afghanistan, and his manipulation of the U.S. press for fame and profit, was published by Columbia Journalism Review. The story was the magazine's cover story in its January-February issue. CHARLES LAYTON -- Charles Layton's story about devastating budget cuts at the Dallas Morning News was published by American Journalism Review. The newspaper laid off 65 reporters after it was caught up in a scandal over its circulation figures. KATHY SHERIDAN -- Ms magazine's article investigating the treatment of women in post-Taliban Afghanistan was published in its winter 2004-2005 issue. The article was the work of reporter Kathy Sheridan and photographer Sharron Lovell. MICHAEL FLYNN -- Michael Flynn's article investigating the U.S. government's activities in Manta, Ecuador, was published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and on its website. The article reveals that the U.S. is using its anti-drug program to block emigration by impoverished Ecuadorans, with little concern for legal or civil rights. His report on the huge number of people from around the around the world who attempt to use Mexico as a gateway into the United States was published in the Washington Post Outlook section. Flynn encountered significant opposition from Mexican officials in his attempt to investigate conditions in detention centers where undocumented migrants are held. REBECCA CLARREN -- Rebecca Clarren, who received a discretionary grant to investigate the dairy industry, was published by Salon, an online magazine. Clarren's story revealed wretched conditions at huge, industrial-scale confinement dairies that are still allowed by the USDA to call their milk "organic." KELLY McEVERS -- Kelly McEvers' investigation of circumstances surrounding the 2004 siege of a school in Beslan, Russia, was published online by Slate magazine. Foreign Policy magazine has committed to publishing another version of her investigation, and National Public Radio will broadcast an audio report. The evidence strongly suggests that official corruption and police collusion played a large role in the disastrous conclusion of the siege. STEPHEN FERRY -- Stephen Ferry's photojournalistic essay on the lives of people affected by Columbia's ongoing civil war was published by National Geographic. The Open Society Institute exhibited his work in a gallery at its Washington office, and Wired and GEO, a French magazine also published his photos. The Fund's grant to Ferry was made in 2000 and completion of his project apparently was delayed for a variety of reasons, including his arrest on September 11, 2001 at the site of the World Trade Center, where he was taking photographs while wearing portions of a New York Fire Department uniform. Ferry was sentenced to community service. GEORGE ANTHAN & JACK COFFMAN -- George Anthan and Jack Coffman have completed their report on newspapers in the Northern Great Plains states, where depopulation has killed scores of small town papers and left others struggling to survive. Their story and photographs were published by the Columbia Journalism Review. SEEMA SINGH -- Seema Singh, the 2005 recipient of the Robert I. Friedman Award, investigated drug testing in India, where major pharmaceutical companies are taking advantage of lax oversight and poor standards to achieve favorable results on the trials of new drugs. Her lengthy report was published in the Sunday editions of Newindpress, an Indian newspaper. The Nation magazine is currently considering publication of a version aimed at a U.S. audience. 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000- Back to topALICE HORRIGAN -- Investigated crime victims who never receive the restitution they were promised by courts. Unclaimed restitution funds now total more than $100 million according to her account. PHILLIP BABICH -- Investigated the federal government's inept response to a disasterous coal slurry accident in a report aired on NPR's Living on Earth. LIZA FEATHERSTONE -- Examined Wal-Mart's treatment of female employees Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers Rights at Wal-Mart, published by Basic Books. RON CHEPESIUK -- Explored the impact of globalization on women garment workers in South Asia in an article for Toward Freedom magazine. CHRISTOPHER BRYSON -- Investigated health and environmental concerns surrounding the use of fluoride in drinking water in The Flouride Deception, published by Seven Stories Press. CHARLES LAYTON -- Explored lobbying and political activity by major communications firms in a series of articles published by American Journalism Review. ELIZA GRISWOLD -- Investigated the strange interplay of forces in a remote area of Pakistan called Waziristan, reputed to be the hiding place of Osama bin Laden. Griswold was the first recipient of the Fund's Robert Friedman Award for International Investigative Reporting. Her article was published in the New Yorker . PRATAP CHATTERJEE AND RANIA MASRI -- Occupation Inc. investigated war profiteering by American contractors in Iraq during the early stages of U.S. occupation. Their article was published by Southern Exposure . THOMAS LOWENSTEIN -- Two articles calling into question the guilt of Pennsylvania man on death row for the murder of a child. The articles were published by the Philadelphia Citypaper. JIM WYSS -- Investigated the massacre of 25 women and children in Ecuador's Amazon forest. They were members of the Tagaeri-Taromenane tribe that has been swept up in violence fueled by illegal logging in the area. His articles were published in the Miami Herald and the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Herald also published several excellent photographs by Wyss. RACHEL SMOLKIN -- Examined newsroom cutbacks at newspapers owned by the Tribune Company, now the nation's third-largest newspaper company by circulation. Her article, Uncertain Times, was published by American Journalism Review . PASCALE BONNEFOY -- Investigated torture and abuse at Chile's National Stadium during the Pinochet dictatorship in Terrorismo de Estadio, a Spanish-language book published by Ediciones Chile America - CESOC. 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000- Back to topANNE-MARIE CUSAC -- Explored union-busting techniques used by today's employers in Brazen Bosses, published by The Progressive magazine. ARLENE EDMONDS -- Exposed the practice of social service agencies removing children from their homes solely because their parents are living in poverty. Her article, Parental Rights: Losing Children to Poverty, was the cover story in the Philadelphia Tribune Magazine . LIZA FEATHERSTONE -- Investigated the treatment of female workers by Wal-Mart, the nation's largest employer, in Wal-Mart Values. Her article was the cover story in the Nation magazine. DAN FERBER -- Wrote several articles for Science magazine exposing the Bush administration's attempt to politicize the membership of scientific advisory panels. His stories prompted similar articles in the Washington Post, New York Times, Time.com and other publications. KATY RECKDAHL -- Completed a series of articles about the lives of poor people in New Orleans for Gambit, an alternative weekly. The articles often reported on the encounters between police/local authorities and poor people. A vivid example was her article on a police crackdown on kids who tapdance for change on street corners in the Latin Quarter. The police said they were doing it because the kids weren't properly trained as artists. WENDY SUE WILLIAMS -- Completed her investigation of carbon sequestration and other emissions-trading schemes, questioning whether the purposes of the Kyoto treaty are being subverted. Her articles on the subject were published in Scientific American and the Boston Globe. It was also the subject of a lengthy interview with her on National Public Radio's Living on Earth. SARA BETH MILLER -- Investigated the plight of impoverished Moroccan children who illegally enter the Spanish outpost of Ceuta . The article was published in the news section of the Christian Science Monitor and subsequently was the basis of an expanded piece in the paper's Ideas section. JOSEPH ROSENBLOOM -- Investigated Tyson Food's employment of illegal immigrants in its plants --and its subsequent exoneration by a jury considering criminal charges --in an article for The American Prospect. TOMRIC NEWS AGENCY -- Completed six articles on looting and corruption, and the possible involvment of Al Qaeda, surrounding Tanzanite. Its articles have been published in the Sunday Observer and The Guardian, both of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, and have resulted in cases referred to the country's attorney general and the Commission on Fair Trade Practices for possible action. JIM MORRIS -- Investigated a toxic waste catastrophe in Jersey City. The case involved the widespread dumping of deadly chromium by local industries and twenty years of dithering by environmental agencies about cleaning it up. His story was published by the Dallas Morning News , where he now works. REBECCA CLARREN -- Harvesting Poison investigated the dangers of pesticides to immigrant farm workers in an article published by High Country News . Her report included an excellent sidebar on the routine, illegal use of child labor on farms. Another version of Clarren's article was published by The Nation . SUE SMITH-HEAVENRICH --Reported on sludge containing toxic chemicals that is sold commercially as "organic" fertilizer. Her article was published by the Maine Organic Farmer & Gardener. KOREN CAPOZZA -- Investigated toxic chemical contamination at Fort Greely, Alaska - site of a secret U.S. military biological and chemical weapons testing program - in an article published by The Nation. GARRANCE BURKE -- Investigated the long-running conflict in the Chiapas region of Mexico in a lengthy article published on-line by PBS's Frontline / World Fellows program. NILSON MARIANO -- Investigated a secret alliance among military dictatorships in South America during the 1970s in a book, As Garras do Condor, published in Brazil by Editora Vozes. 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000- Back to topKATY RECKDAHL -- Completed a year-long investigation of juvenile justice in Louisiana, although she is continuing to follow some of the cases she reported. Gambit , an alternative New Orleans weekly. The series included nine stories and sidebars. Reckdahl was named "journalist of the year" by the Louisiana Mental Health Association for her work. KEN SILVERSTEIN -- Investigated Leonid Minin and other shadowy arms dealers who sell weapons to terrorists and rogue regimes in the January/February 2002 issue of The Washington Monthly. CAROLYN JOHNSEN -- Examined the environmental, economic and social effects of "hog factory" farms in the Midwest in a book titled Raising a Stink. It was published by the University of Nebraska Press. GALINA GOTUA -- Investigated the poisoning of people in the Republic of Georgia by a radiation leak from a Strontium-90 generator. Her article was published by the newspaper Georgia Today, including an English-language version published in the U.S. KATY RECKDAHL -- Scaling Back examined devastating budget cuts faced by the New Orleans Legal Assistance Corp., which has argued thousands of civil cases on behalf of the poor over a 35-year period. Another article examined police harassment of kids who tap dance for spare change on street corners, a long tradition in New Orleans, because local authorities have decided they are in violation of the city's panhandling laws. Both articles were published in Gambit, a weekly newspaper. MARY ANN SWISSLER -- The Marketing of Breast Cancer investigated the Susan G. Komen Foundation, sponsor of the "Race for the Cure," and its emphasis on finding a medical cure for breast cancer. Her story was published by Southern Exposure magazine and distributed over the Internet by AlterNet.org. JOE RODRIGUEZ -- East Side Stories, a photojournalism book examining gang in Los Angeles. His book was published by Powerhouse Books. THE ADIRONDAK EXPLORER -- Completed a two-year series of stories about development pressures facing Adirondack Park and the failure of officials to properly address the problem. JIMMIE BRIGGS -- Guerilla Girls, a story investigating the use of girls as suicide bombers by Tamil rebels in Sri Lanka. The story was published by Bust magazine and was the basis for a report aired on ABC's 20/20. 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000- Back to topNAFTALI MUNGAI -- Investigated extensive environmental damage and associated issues of corruption involving titanium mining in Kenya by the Canadian-owned company Tiomin Resources Inc. His article was published in The People (Nairobi). BEVERLY PETERSON -- Invisible Revolution, a video documentary, examined the raw struggle between young KKK supporters and their anti-racist adversaries. The documentary included an interview with Benjamin Smith conducted shortly before he went on a racist killing spree in the Midwest. The video was first shown on public television in Dayton and subsequently screened at the Sundance film festival and other venues. WALLACE ROBERTS -- Questioned whether California power-generating companies conspired to raise electricity prices by exploiting weaknesses in the state's deregulation law. The article was published in the Sacramento Bee. Roberts was a recipient of the Fund's annual book award for a book investigating the impact of electricity deregulation on consumers. GEOFFREY F.X. O'CONNELL -- The Mystery of the 364th reveals the story of a ten-year investigation questioning whether a black WWII Army regiment was massacred at Camp Van Dorn, Mississippi. Published in Gambit Weekly (New Orleans) April 10, 2001 www.bestofneworleans.com A History Channel documentary on the subject, based on O'Connell's research, will air soon. Versions of the Gambit Weekly story also were published in numerous alternative weeklies around the country. EL ANDAR MAGAZINE -- Silicone Shame, a series of investigative reports on the health and environmental impact that computer manufacturing has on low-income workers. DAN LA BOTZ -- Made in Indonesia: Indonesian Workers Since Suharto published in June 2001 by South End Press: Cambridge. The book is an in-depth examination of Indonesia's labor movement since the overthrow of the Suharto dictatorship and the continuing struggle for democratization and workers' rights. Information is available on the publisher's web site at www.southendpress.org INGRID LOBET -- Investigation of the circumstances resulting in the poisoning by carbon monoxide gas of workers at a fruit-packing plant in Washington State in 1997. Broadcast April 29, 2001 on NPR's Latino USA program. Archived at www.lusa.org The documentary won several awards, including the Scripps Award for best broadcast documentary. MARI TSIKELASHVILI -- Examination of Russia's confiscation of property and gold owned by Georgia in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, including the apparent collusion of Georgian President Edward Shevardnadze. Published in ALIA in January 2001. BRIAN LIGOMEKA -- Expose of corruption involving U.S. assistance to Malawi. Among officials implicated in the stories is President Bakili Muluzi, who is alleged to have had ties to a Ugandan national who was to receive a $6 million commission in the award of a U.S.-sponsored national identity card project to a Swiss holding company. Published in The Mirror (Blantyre) in the April 26-30, 2001 issue. Additional stories by Ligomeka were distributed by the African Eye News Service, available at www.allafrica.com ERIC LONGABARDI -- BioWar, an investigation into secret biological/chemical testing conducted by the U.S. military in the 1960s, won top honors in the "Best of the West" Journalism Awards. The two-part investigation, broadcast by CBS Evening News in May 2000, can be seen at http://www.cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,235003-412,00.shtml ERNESTO BAZAN -- Images of everyday life in Cuba during the "special period" after the fall of the Soviet Union. Published in Vol. 19 #4 of the APF Reporter and available online at www.aliciapatterson.org/APF1904/Bazan/Bazan.phpl [*] KATY RECKDAHL -- The first in a series of stories on the juvenile justice system in New Orleans detailed efforts by two eight-grade students charged with a school shooting to obtain a trial by jury, since the state was trying them as adults. It was published May 22, 2001 in Gambit Weekly . A trial judge subsequently ruled for the students, but the state is appealing. Second in the series, published July 10, was a story about a boy kept incarcerated for four years for the crime of joyriding. The stories are archived at www.bestofneworleans.com JEREMY BIGWOOD -- The Accidental Spy, a first-person account of Bigwood's discovery that the U.S. Government had access to thousands of his photographs taken while working in Central America for the Gamma Liaison news agency from 1984 to 1994, was published in the July/August issue of American Journalism Review. Available at http://ajr.newslink.org/ajrbigjul01.phpl JANET GARDNER --Documentary on Operation Babylift, the effort to rescue more than 2,000 infants and children at the close of the Vietnam War, and its enduring impact on their lives and the U.S. families who adopted them. PBS stations will broadcast the documentary nationally in November as part of "National Adoption Month." Information on the project is available at www.gardnerdocgroup.com ALAN LIPKE -- Are We Still Making Progress? combined elements of a radio documentary on an 1898 race riot in Wilmington, N.C. with a public forum on present day race relations in the area. The two-hour program was broadcast on March 22, 2001 by WHQR-FM, public radio in Wilmington. Public Radio International will broadcast the finished documentary in February 2002. Information about the documentary and Lipke's other projects is available on his web site at http://realityworks.wmnf.org STEVE WEINBERG -- A brief profile of the "patron saint" of investigative reporting, Ida Tarbell, published in the May-June 2001 issue of Columbia Journalism Review devoted to "The Investigators." It is available online at http://www.cjr.org/year/01/3/tarbell.asp JOHN KAMAU -- British Bombs Cause Mayhem, reporting on deaths and injuries in rural Kenya caused by munitions used in military training exercises, was published in the June 2001 issue of New Africa magazine. The magazine is available at www.africicasia.com/icpubs although at last check this article was not available online. Another story, Cover-up of British Bombs, published by Rights Features Service, is available at www.dfn.org/focus/kenya/britishbombs.php A more extensive article, Killer Bombs No One Owns was published June 3, 2001 in The People , a Nairobi newspaper. CHARLES BANDA -- Investigated deplorable prison conditions in southern Malawi in eighteen articles published in the newspaper African Witness. The stories detailed widespread cases of disease, malnutrition, extreme over-crowding, rape and murder. In August the president of Malawi released 880 prisoners in an effort to relieve conditions. Banda has received the second half of his grant but is continuing to investigate prison conditions in northern Malawi. LEAH SAMUEL -- Reported on illegal and irregular management practices of the Detroit Public Library system in a story published by the Michigan Citizen. Among other things, Samuel revealed that the library's general fund account is chronically overdrawn, that money is spent without contracts or proper records and that the system operates with virtually no public oversight. KEN SILVERSTEIN -- U.S. Oil Politics in "The Kuwait of Africa" investigated the pillaging of Equatorial Guinea by U.S. oil companies. The article was the cover story in The Nation . KATY RECKDAHL -- Continued her periodic series on the juvenile justice system in Louisiana for the Gambit weekly newspaper with an account of the system's faltering effort to deal with girls, who now account for one of every four juveniles arrested. In October she wrote about allegations of abuse at the Tallulah juvenile prison. KENT PATERSON -- Investigated the Bush administration's attempt to relax restraints on the training of Mexican police officers by U.S. law enforcement agencies. The proposed changes would allow "thugs and murderers" into the system and revive practices of torture and disappearance. His story was produced for the Pacific News Service. 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004- 2003 2002 2001 2000- Back to topBlack Mass, The Irish Mob, The FBI and a Devil's Deal by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill is the story of John Connolly, an agent in the FBI's Boston office, and James "Whitey" Bulger, godfather of the Irish mob. They grew up together and Connolly had a scheme to bring Bulger into the FBI fold and put himself into the Bureau's big leagues. The book is "the chilling true story of what happened between them-a dark deal that spiraled out of control, leading to uncontested murders and drug dealing, and eventual racketeering indictments for both Connolly and Bulger." Bulger is currently on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. It was published by PublicAffairs. Red Mafiya - How The Russian Mob Has Invaded America by Robert Friedman is an investigative book exposing Russian organized crime, its growing power in the United States and how it has infiltrated US banks and brokerage houses. Published in May 2000 by Little Brown. 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 1999 & 2000 1999 1999 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000- Back to top |
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JASON GROTTO & TIM JONES -- Chicago Tribune reporters Jason
Grotto and Tim Jones authored a chilling five-part series, 
GREG BOSNAN & JENNIFER SZYMASZEK -- Greg Brosnan and Jennifer Szymaszek
produced a video, 
HABIBA NOSHEEN & HILKE SCHELLMAN -- Habiba Nosheen and Hilke Schellman co-produced an investigative
documentary on surrogacy, 
JONATHAN GREEN -- 
HAL HERRING -- Hal Herring wrote an article in Miller-McCune magazine about the plans of St. Joseph Company to develop large areas of timberland
in the Florida panhandle: 
SCOTT CARNEY -- Scott Carney's 
THOMAS A. BASS -- Thomas A. Bass' 
AARON GLANTZ -- Aaron Glantz' 
PRATAP CHATTERLEE -- Pratap Chatterlee's 
SUSAN COHEN & CHRISTINE COSGROVE -- Susan Cohen and Christine Cosgrove's 
JP OLSEN -- JP Olsen of Brooklyn, NY, produced and directed a one-hour public television documentary on secret CIA-funded drug experiments at the U.S. Narcotic Farm in Lexington, Kentucky.
The film is also the subject of an accompanying book, 
JESSICA SNYDER SACHS -- 
TED DRACOS -- Ted Dracos has completed the manuscript for his book, Biocidal; Confronting the Poisonous Legacy of PCBs, on the role of the chemical industry in contaminating the world with PCBs. It will be published by Beacon Press in the fall of 2010. Since PCBs were outlawed in 1976, most people think the problem has been solved. However, PCBs can be found everywhere: the highest mountain peaks to the deepest ocean trenches, in the air, in our veins - even in the tissue of newborn babies. In Biocidal, Dracos documents the connection between PCBs and catastrophic human illness. From the beginning, workers exposed in manufacturing plants began to suffer skin lesions, boils, liver failure, and death, yet the chemical industry and their clients denied the dangers of PCBs. Dracos reports for the first time just how industry manipulated scientific studies and all three branches of government, so the public would believe PCBs no longer posed a threat. Biocidal also presents a blueprint for reducing the impacts of PCBs and other industrial chemicals.
NIC DUNLOP -- Nic Dunlop's book about Comrade Duch,