By Eric Ferrero, Executive DirectorNobody noticed when 8-year-old Relisha Rudd disappeared from the Washington, DC, homeless shelter where she was living with her family in 2014. By the time authorities finally declared her missing, 18 days had passed since anyone had seen her. Relisha has never been found.A new podcast, “Through the Cracks,” revisits Relisha’s disappearance – asking whether it ...
Fund will provide expedited review for urgent stories on any topic and follow-up grants after initial investigations runWASHINGTON, DC, February 11, 2021 – To help investigative journalists increase the impact of their reporting, the Fund for Investigative Journalism announced today that it is launching two new grantmaking initiatives: expedited grants for urgent stories and follow-up grants for timely stories after initial ...
Over the past few decades, a handful of massive nationwide companies have come to dominate the home health care industry. A new report by grantee Jake Bittle for The New Republic shows how one of those companies, LHC Group, has managed to squeeze out big profits from a low-margin business.Drawing on several employee interviews and hundreds of documents, the report ...
The Fund for Investigative Journalism partnered with the Native American Journalists Association to hold an online forum on localizing the “Land Grab Universities” story.The groundbreaking investigative report, by grantees Tristan Ahtone and Robert Lee showed how colleges and universities continue to benefit from nearly 11 million acres of land taken from Native Americans in the 1800s. This forum includes tips, insights ...
A decade after Iowa law enforcement agencies started using body cameras, Iowa has a widely divergent, unregulated system of rules and policies governing public access to a tool that many saw at the outset as a way of monitoring the conduct of police. Those disparities, found in a review of the policies of more than 200 agencies, can endanger the ...