Grants and other support will help reporters produce groundbreaking coverage on government/corporate wrongdoing, criminal justice, civil rights, and the environment.WASHINGTON, D.C., June 30, 2021 – The Fund for Investigative Journalism today announced that its board of directors has awarded grants to reporters for 16 new investigative projects. The investigative projects include print, broadcast and online news stories, books, documentaries, and ...
Blocked from facts and truth, under constant surveillance, surrounded by a hostile alien police force: Xinjiang’s Uyghur population has become cursed, oppressed, outcast. Most citizens cannot discern between enemy and friend. Social trust has been destroyed systematically. Friends betray each other, bosses snitch on employees, teachers expose their students, and children turn on their parents. Everyone is dependent on a ...
By Eric Ferrero, executive directorIt’s been three months since Leah Sottile’s story on James Plymell’s death was published in High Country News, republished in other outlets and amplified in Longreads. It’s one of those stories that sticks with you for months after you read it. With a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism, Sottile took a deep dive into a ...
In California’s San Joaquin Valley, the farming town of Corcoran has a multimillion-dollar problem. It is almost impossible to see, yet so vast it takes NASA scientists using satellite technology to fully grasp. Corcoran is sinking.According to a new investigation by grantees at The Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism, over the past 14 years, the town has sunk as much ...