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Call for Proposals: Stories on Threats to Democracy in the U.S.

The Fund for Investigative Journalism is accepting proposals for grants to cover the expenses of investigative stories that break new ...

2/24 Webinar: How to Develop and Manage Collaborative Investigative Projects

Join us on Friday, Feb. 24, at 11:30 a.m. Eastern on Zoom for a webinar on how to develop and ...

Grantee documents risk to Pittsburgh’s public education system as enrollment dwindles

As enrollment declines in Pittsburgh’s public schools, the impact is far reaching. Reporter Laia Mistry, writing for Public Source with ...

Cleaning up Honduran national police is no easy task, grantee finds

Reporters Jennifer Avila and Danielle Mackey, writing for Contracorriente, probed efforts to professionalize the Honduran national police force and rid it ...

Watchdog group reveals how Florida’s largest utility company provided dark money to promote “ghost candidates,” sowing voter confusion

In a report investigating so-called “ghost candidates” that aim to confuse voters and siphon off votes, Ben Wilcox, writing for ...

  Grantee reveals how the insurance industry uses complex financing schemes to maximize profits, risking pensions and retirement funds

Writing for 100 Reporters, reporter Lucy Komisar followed her groundbreaking FIJ-funded story about high-risk Wall Street life-insurance practices with a second piece that showed ...

Wide-ranging series on criminal justice in Mississippi and the South uncovers major systemic issues

A sweeping eight part-series, “Broken Justice,” by the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, in collaboration with several universities and news ...

Grantee reports that Louisville police department rarely disciplined white officers for wrongdoing, but the case of a Black officer was different

Louisville, Kentucky, police officer Jervis Middletown was demoted for improper conduct and then fired after he aligned with local Black ...

Grantee reveals pattern of assaults against Fort Worth librarians; story prompts city to increase security

An anonymous tip led reporters from Fort Worth Report to investigate claims that public library staff across the city were ...

High-tech tool to help prevent student suicide is being used to spy on protestors, grantee finds

For a few thousand dollars a year, a high-tech artificial intelligence system offers colleges a way to scan students’ social ...