The Board of Directors of the Fund for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) has awarded $67,810 for eight grants to nine investigative journalists in its most recent round of funding. The grants will help investigative reporters cover the costs of reporting work, such as travel, document fees, and other out-of-pocket expenses. The grant recipients are: Sylvia Varnham O’Regan & Maddy Crowell, New ...
With gratitude for their moral and financial support, the board and staff of the Fund for Investigative Journalism would like to acknowledge the many individuals and organizations that have sustained the work of independent investigative reporters throughout the year. Major Supporters: The Jonathan Logan Family Foundation The Reva and David Logan Foundation The Weissman Family Foundation The Ford Foundation The ...
In 2011, FIJ helped fund investigative reporter Trevor Aaronson’s research into the FBI’s program of recruiting informants to break terrorist plots within the U.S. That reporting became the Mother Jones magazine story “The Informants,” which Aaronson wrote while a fellow at the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California, Berkeley. Part of that Mother Jones story followed the FBI’s ...
The September 24 deadline to apply for FIJ grants has passed, but it’s not too late to apply for a diversity fellowship. That deadline is Monday, October 1. FIJ will award up to four diversity fellowships in partnership with Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, InsideClimate News, and the Marshall Project. Details of this fellowship opportunity are here: https://fij.org/fij-launches-new-collaborations-for-next-round-of-diversity-fellowships/ The next ...
The Fund for Investigative Journalism seeks Director of Operations The Fund for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) is seeking a Director of Operations to help the organization fulfill its mission of supporting freelance and independent investigative journalists. The Director of Operations oversees all office operations and procedures to ensure organizational effectiveness and efficiency and reports directly to the Executive Director. Founded in ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contacts: Amelia Nitz, Reporters Committee, [email protected] Sandy Bergo, Fund for Investigative Journalism, [email protected] Reporters Committee and Fund for Investigative Journalism announce partnership to support independent journalists The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is partnering with the Fund for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) to offer legal support to FIJ grantees completing investigative reporting projects across the ...
Grant recipient Christina Goldbaum has won the Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence from the National Press Club for her reporting on suspected U.S. military involvement in the killing of 10 civilians during a mission in Somalia in 2017. This follows her earlier win of a Livingston Award for Excellence in International Reporting for the same series of stories ...
Grant recipient Eliza Griswold’s book “Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America” was one of four books noted in a cover feature called “This Land is Our Land” in the August 5, New York Times Book Review. The laudatory review noted Griswold’s “impressive research” and called the book “a David and Goliath story fit for the movies.” ...
Seymour Hersh has published a memoir in which he recounts his long career as an investigative journalist. His book, “Reporter,” shares what his publisher calls “the stories behind the stories.” Hersh has been making the rounds to promote the memoir, including a recent visit to the Washington, D.C., bookstore Politics & Prose. Hersh won a Pulitzer in international reporting for ...
InsideClimate News, The Marshall Project, Reveal/CIR, Ida B. Wells Society join FIJ diversity initiative The Fund for Investigative Journalism is proud to announce partnerships with four of the country’s most innovative journalism nonprofits for a yearlong fellowship program that aims to expand opportunities for diverse journalists in watchdog reporting, with an emphasis on journalists of color. InsideClimate News, The Marshall ...