2009 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 ...
2009 JIM CARRIER — Jim 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 ...
2009 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. ...
2009 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. ...
2009 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. ...
2009 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. ...
2009 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 ...
2009 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. ...
2008 BART 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 ...
2008 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. ...