Please join us next Friday, May 30, at noon Eastern for a free webinar with tips and resources for investigating “cold cases.” Click here to register for this free webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hjIHXh2ETK2WvkvioFa_Bw#/registration Two of our recent grantees will share how they investigated decades-old civil rights “cold cases” and uncovered new leads. They’ll share tips and resources for other journalists who want to ...
Nationwide, prosecutors are required to disclose information to defendants that might erode the credibility of law-enforcement officials who testify in criminal trials. With support from the Fund, an ongoing investigation by Wisconsin Watch, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and TMJ4 News is investigating Milwaukee County’s list of 200 current or former officers who have acted in ways that erode their credibility. ...
The Trump Administration’s immigration policies have left an estimated 270,000 asylum seekers stranded in Mexico, where some of them face violence and abuse from cartels and others, according to reporting by the New Humanitarian. With support from the Fund, Daniela Diaz and Stephanie Corpi Arnaud reported on how the situation at the border has shifted in the months since Trump ...
Civil Beat revealed that the FBI recorded an unnamed Hawaii lawmaker receiving $35,000 from a man who was apparently trying to buy favors from local politicians – but the nonprofit news outlet also revealed that the Department of Justice has still not filed charges in the case, three years after recording the encounter. Civil Beat sued the FBI to obtain ...
Sierra Crane Murdoch dug into the case of Mika Westwolf, a young Native woman who died after being hit by a car in Montana in 2023. The Fund provided Murdoch with a grant to investigate the case for a forthcoming book. With her reporting from the book, Murdoch told Westwolf’s story for a full episode of “This American Life” that ...
“Poisoning the Well,” a new book by Sharon Udasin and Rachel Frazin, traces the history of PFAS, a set of toxic substances known as “forever chemicals” that are used in a wide range of everyday products. With support from the Fund, the journalists obtained records from polluters and zeroed in on four highly contaminated towns to show the extent of ...
Grantees uncover toxic supply chain in dozens of U.S. cities, zeroing in on impact in El Paso, Texas
Dozens of warehouses across the country store medical devices sterilized with ethylene oxide, a toxic chemical – and the facilities are often near homes and schools, where people are unaware of the hazards – according to a new investigation co-published by Grist and El Paso Matters. With support from the Fund, Naveena Sadasivam and Lylla Younes staked out warehouses in ...
For a cover story in the new issue of the Texas Observer, co-published in The Nation, Candice Bernd dug into the Bitcoin mining boom in Texas – documenting its impact on communities, public health and the environment. Her reporting shows that Texas is the national epicenter of Bitcoin mining, with an estimated 40 crypto mines in the state that together ...
For a new story in MIT Technology Review, Gregory Barber used land records to identify large-scale eucalyptus plantations in southwestern Brazil financed by U.S. tech firms seeking to earn carbon removal credits. With support from the Fund, Barber traveled to Mato Grosso do Sul, in Brazil’s Cerrado biome, where he examined the arguments of tech companies and conservation organizations that ...
Air and noise pollution from the Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles is harming local residents’ health, according to extensive reporting by a trio of University of Southern California journalism students published in Capital & Main. With support from the Fund, Chris Bibona, Shane Dimapanat and Vani Sanganeria spent more than a year interviewing residents in the neighborhoods around the ...