Brightline, the nation’s only privately owned city-to-city passenger train, has failed to implement basic safety measures – and 182 people have died on the railway in the last eight years, according to an investigation by WLRN (the NPR member station in South Florida) and the Miami Herald, with support from the Fund. Reporters spent a year combing federal rail data, ...
As you likely know by now, we lost a giant in the field of investigative journalism last week, with the passing of Morton Mintz at the age of 103. A longtime investigative reporter at The Washington Post and the author of 10 books, Mort served as president of the Fund for Investigative Journalism’s Board of Directors for several years in the 1990s. If ...