Chicago police officers who knowingly lie or conceal evidence in criminal cases are supposed to be put on a list that the State’s Attorney’s Office maintains, so that defendants can question their credibility if they’re called to the stand. But in an investigation for the Chicago Reader and the Invisible Institute, with support from the Fund, reporters Max Blaisdell and ...
A collaborative report from several news organizations, with support from the Fund, examines the prevalence of misinformation on Spanish radio stations in the U.S., tracing how misinformation is spread, its potential impact on the upcoming election, and the role of foreign actors (notably Russia) in creating and spreading disinformation. Feet in 2 Worlds partnered on the six-part series with WNYC’s ...
A new documentary digs into an unsolved murder in 1968 that was reportedly racially motivated. “The Girl in the Yellow Scarf,” produced by Sandra Chapman with support from the Fund, explores the murder of Carol Jenkins in Martinsville, Indiana. Jenkins, who was Black, was 21 years old when she was murdered while selling encyclopedias door to door. In reporting the ...
The Tucson Sentinel, with support from the Fund, has published a series of reports on inmate deaths in the Pima County, Arizona, jail. Last year, lead reporter Natalie Robb uncovered the case of a man who died at the jail – and whose family was never notified of his death. That story led Robb and others at the Sentinel to ...
Intense lobbying led the City of San Francisco to adopt a series of policies that will make it harder for companies to use electric vehicles in the city – and, as a result, will make it harder for the city to achieve its goals to stop all greenhouse gas emissions within the next 15 years. With support from the Fund, ...
Eight years after a private company took over a Los Angeles-area nursing home that had been run by a Japanese nonprofit, 115 patients died of COVID. Local members of the Japanese community, who had opposed the sale, pointed to the deaths and scores of earlier complaints as evidence of a sharp decline in care. With support from the Fund, AsAmNews, ...
Seven years after the devastation of Hurricane Maria – and with continued blackouts caused by storms and spotty coverage – the government of Puerto Rico has not created a comprehensive plan to identify and notify people with special needs who could die without electricity to run dialysis machines and other equipment. With support from the Fund, the nonprofit Centro de ...
Washington, DC, has committed to eliminate the use of fossil fuels – but the local gas utility is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to replace the underground pipe system that would perpetuate the use of fossil fuels, according to an investigative podcast by Hola Cultura, with support from the Fund. The podcast delves into the public-relations battle between Washington ...
Conservative U.S.-based organizations that encourage people to change their sexual orientation and “leave” the LGBTQ community are shifting their focus to Europe, after failing to get a foothold in the U.S., according to an investigation by Finbarr Toesland for Byline Times, with support from the Fund. Toesland reported on the “ex-gay” CHANGED Movement, housed at Bethel Church in Redding, California, ...
A change in town policy over seasonal employees sleeping in tents has fueled a housing shortage for year-round residents in a small Alaskan cruise ship town, according to reporting by Molly McCluskey, who used a seed grant from the Fund to conduct initial research and reporting into Skagway’s housing shortage for KHNS, the NPR-affiliate serving Alaska’s northern panhandle communities. McCluskey ...