Voice of San Diego examined each COVID-related death in San Diego County during the first year of the pandemic, uncovering new insights about each person’s education, occupation and race – information never before released by the county. The Voice, with a grant from the Fund, had to sue to get access to the records. A team of journalists then spent ...
Bill Marimow elected President, Cheryl W. Thompson and Anu Narayanswamy elected Vice Presidents; five new Board members elected WASHINGTON, DC, January 13, 2022 – The Fund for Investigative Journalism, an organization committed to sustaining in-depth reporting, has elected new officers and five new board members. Bill Marimow, a two-time Pulitzer Prize recipient, was elected board President. He is the former ...
Eric S. Peterson explored the criminal justice system’s sometimes double standard in dealing with armed militias at protests in Utah. In a series for the Utah Investigative Journalism Project, which Peterson leads, in partnership with the Deseret News and the Salt Lake Tribune, Peterson found the Salt Lake District Attorney had dropped charges against a militia member who pepper-sprayed a ...
Northern Nevada is one of the most productive and sought-after gold mining regions on the planet. In 2019, two companies merged their Nevada mines into a joint venture, Nevada Gold Mines, now one of the largest gold miners in the world. The company’s size and the absence of competition left the local community, the workforce, contractors, and Indigenous nations on ...
In North Carolina, several counties are betting their futures on bigger jails, guided by consultants who stand to profit. The decisions are often based on dubious work by consultants who may then be hired to design the jails they recommend. And the counties often fail to weigh the long-term costs of putting their money into bigger jails instead dealing with ...
The bankruptcy of prominent Easterday Ranches in Washington State, where owner Cody Easterday had lost more than $200 million in cattle futures, offered a rare opportunity to examine the opaque world of beef pricing, and in particular, Tyson Foods, one of four meat packing corporations controlling 73 percent of the protein market in the United States. Easterday was being prosecuted ...
SJV Water Editor and CEO Lois Henry had heard from farmers in Kings County in California’s San Joaquin Valley that water was being moved in large amounts from the heavily farmed region, possibly for sales outside the county. What she found was that water is, in fact, leaving the county, mostly under legal transfers by the region’s two largest farming ...
After Ahmaud Arbery was murdered while jogging in a majority-white neighborhood in Glynn County, Georgia, initial police reports cast him as a burglar and “suspicious person,” not a victim of crime. Many Black people who live in Brunswick, the county seat surrounded by a white majority, told The Current that they believed bias toward people of color by local police ...