2003 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. ...
2003 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. ...
2003 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 . ...
2003 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. ...
2003 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. ...
2003 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. ...
2003 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. ...
2002 KATY 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. ...
2002 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. ...
2002 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. ...