In the heart of rural Washington logging country, a county commissioner is pushing a plan to use the threat of wildfires to funnel timber revenue from a national forest into the county’s struggling budget. With support from the Fund, Columbia Insights uncovered the plan to expand fuel breaks, strips of land where trees and other vegetation are removed or thinned ...
With support from the Fund, the Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism examined thousands of conversations on Truth Social to trace how conservatives are amplifying President Trump’s misinformation about Africa, at the same time that the Trump Administration is cutting U.S. assistance to the continent. CCIJ used the disinformation tracking platform Junkipedia, a project by the Algorithmic Transparency Institute, part of ...
With support from the Fund, The New Humanitarian is publishing an ongoing series, the Deterrence Effect, documenting how U.S. immigration policy is helping spread humanitarian suffering and human-rights abuses in Latin America. The newest piece in the series zeroes in on Mario Torres, who left Venezuela in 2018 at the age of 18 and tried to move to the U.S. ...
WASHINGTON, DC; July 15, 2026 – The Fund for Investigative Journalism announced today that it is awarding 67 new grants to journalists to do groundbreaking stories in more than 25 U.S. states. The grants cover the expenses of specific investigative stories, and recipients can also receive free editorial and legal assistance. The grants are being made to individual freelance journalists, ...