Fund for Investigative Journalism – supported reporter Trevor Aaronson has been selected as a finalist for the 2011 Livingston Awards for Young Journalists. Aaronson was cited for his story published in Mother Jones on informants recruited by the FBI to pose as terrorists. Aaronson examined terrorism prosecutions and discovered that a series of high-profile cases had started as FBI stings where the means, the ...
Fund for Investigative Journalism grantees have won 2011 Sigma Delta Chi awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, in two categories. For Investigative Reporting (non-daily publication), Rebekah L. Cowell, won an award for her “Waste Land” series in The Independent Weekly (Durham NC). Cowell investigated how low income and minority communities get stuck with other people’s waste in the form of ...
Render Unto Rome: The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church, by Jason Berry, has won the prestigious IRE Book Award for 2011. Berry wrote the book with a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism. The judges of the annual awards contest sponsored by Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) praised the book with these comments: “Author Jason Berry delves deeply into ...
WASHINGTON — The Fund for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) is seeking grant proposals for independent investigative projects from journalists who need support for travel and other reporting expenses. The deadline for proposals is 5 p.m. EDT, Monday, April 30. FIJ is interested in proposals that break new ground and expose wrongdoing. Projects relating to government accountability and environmental issues in the ...
Mc Nelly Torres of the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting has won a citation for investigative reporting from the Education Writers Association. This is the second national education reporting citation for Torres. Her story, School of Hard Financial Knocks, exposed how Florida schools diverted federal money intended for education reform to cover general operating expenses. The investigation was supported by a ...
Tracie McMillan’s “The American Way of Eating” has hit a nerve. The New York Times review of her book investigating the food industry praises her approach as forthright and “lighted from within by anger.” According to the Times, the book is a “brutal takedown of corporations” that cheat food workers out of pay and supply Americans with poor quality food. Rush Limbaugh has a ...
(Washington) The Fund for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) is proud to announce that Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation has awarded $100,000 for FIJ’s support of independent investigative journalists. FIJ is one of 19 journalism organizations to receive significant grants from the Oklahoma City-based foundation. Most of the foundation’s grants this year were awarded for nonprofit investigative reporting, and “are primarily start-ups with exciting new business ...
Washington – The Fund for Investigative Journalism is putting out a special call for proposals taking a sharply focused, investigative approach to two important public policy issues: 1) economic inequities in America, and 2) climate change. These special grant opportunities have been made possible with a $50,000 grant from the Green Park Foundation. Grant proposals will be reviewed and voted upon by the ...
Washington – The Fund for Investigative Journalism has moved to the National Press Club, on the 13th floor of the National Press Building in Washington DC. The office is located in the newly renovated Eric Friedheim National Journalism Library, also home to the Press Club’s Journalism Institute which offers training, panel discussions and other professional development programs for journalists and ...
The American Journalism Review reports on the Schuster Institute’s initiative to create fellowships for Fund of Investigative Journalism grantees: “‘Until someone figures out how to get more hours into a day than 24, it is absolutely mandatory that we find ways to collaborate,'” says Florence Graves, founding director of the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism. So about a year ago, when ...