2005 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. ...
2005 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. ...
2005 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. ...
2005 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. ...
2005 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 ...
2005 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.” ...
2005 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 ...
2005 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 ...
2005 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. ...
2005 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 ...