Several grantees recently received awards for stories they produced with grants and other support from the Fund, including: NPR’s Station Investigations Team, Columbia Journalism Investigations, the Ohio Newsroom and WVXU received a first-place award from the National Headliner Awards for their investigation of prosecutorial misconduct in Ohio. The Maine Monitor received a New England Newspaper and Press Association Award for ...
In new series, grantee Kristi Coale is looking into San Francisco’s electric future for The Frisc. The first story in the series examines the long and troubled relationship between San Francisco and PG&E, the regional power company. With support from the Fund, Coale conducted the most robust public accounting yet on incidents and project delays that affect every aspect of ...
“The Strike,” a new documentary produced with the Fund’s support, chronicles the largest hunger strike in U.S. history, to protest solitary confinement at the Pelican Bay “supermax” prison in Northern California. For decades, the prison held mostly Black and brown men alone in tiny cells indefinitely. Then one day in 2013, 30,000 prisoners went on hunger strike. The film, directed ...
With support from the Fund, Sammy Sussman, Annika Grosser and Sanjana Bhambhani obtained disciplinary records of New York City’s Department of Homeless Services Police, a little-known law enforcement agency that uses non-lethal weapons to maintain security in city-owned shelters. For an investigation for Muck Rock and New York Focus, the team focused on 31 officers and found that a small ...
With support from the Fund, Lila Hassan dug into “GunTube,” the online ecosystem of firearms videomakers and influencers on YouTube. She found that T.Rex Arms, a firearms accessories company with over a million followers on YouTube, is pushing a hardline Christian ideology. Her reporting in Mother Jones uncovers the gap in online social media policy where extremism festers, because content ...
More than a third of people shot nonfatally by Detroit police in recent years were not charged with a crime or convicted of the conduct officers said prompted them to open fire, a first-of-its-kind investigation by the Detroit Free Press found, raising questions about whether their shootings were justifiable. Most of those shooting survivors were unarmed or shot in the ...
Louisiana State University is letting oil companies influence its research work – if they donate enough money to the university – according to a new report by Sara Sneath, with support from the Fund. For a story co-published by The Lens in New Orleans and The Guardian, Sneath obtained emails and documents that the university’s fundraising arm circulated to oil ...
Migrants in a Chicago shelter lived in unsafe conditions before and after the high-profile death of a child at the shelter, according to an investigation by Borderless Magazine, with support from the Fund. Mauricio Pena, Katrina Pham and Nissa Rhee reported that a dozen migrants filed complaints of inhumane conditions, including freezing temperatures in the shelter and outbreaks of chickenpox, ...
Three years ago, a group of Muslim people in prison in Missouri were beaten because they we were praying. Jen Marlowe, with support from the Fund, has spent the last 18 months investigating the incident for a story in Al Jazeera English. Her reporting took her deep into rural Missouri to talk to the impacted men in three of the ...
In an investigation for Texas Monthly, Aaron Nelsen dug into what is – and isn’t – known about migrant deaths along the U.S./Mexico border. He reported that U.S. immigration policy has intentionally funneled migrants into dangerous crossing areas for decades, to deter them from making the journey, and experts estimate that thousands have drowned in the Rio Grande River. It’s ...