(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 ...
The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University and the Fund for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) in Washington, D.C. announce the launch of the Schuster Institute & Fund for Investigative Journalism Fellowships, an innovative investigative journalism collaboration with reporting on vital social justice and human rights issues as its core mission—reporting now endangered in mainstream newsrooms. Based at Brandeis University’s ...
New Orleans – As Bob Butler and Jessica Williams report for The Lens, “Each day, after wrapping up work as a streetcar operator, Kisa Holmes drives by to check on the house she bought in the Upper 9th Ward just weeks before Hurricane Katrina – a house that now sits empty, gutted and deteriorating because she can’t afford to fix it…. ...
New Haven, Connecticut – As Rob Gurwitt reports for the Connecticut Health I-Team: “Each time John Dempsey Hospital performs a cardiac valve surgery, the hospital receives a median payment of $82,589 from Medicare – about $23,000 more than the median paid to Danbury Hospital for the same surgical procedure. A pacemaker implant at Dempsey, part of the University of Connecticut, ...
WASHINGTON – (December 21, 2011) The Board of Directors of the Fund for Investigative Journalism has awarded $34,000 in grants for seven independent investigative projects in the United States. The grants cover reporting expenses such as the cost of traveling to interview sources. The Fund’s grant-making program is made possible by support from the Gannett Foundation, the Ethics and Excellence ...
Washington City Paper features The Fund for Investigative Journalism as one of “Seventy local nonprofits that are worth your time and money,” in a special project with the Catalogue for Philanthropy: Greater Washington. The Catalogue vetted and selected FIJ to be recognized as one of the best small nonprofits in the Washington DC region. FIJ is the first journalism organization to make the list. ...
Lakewood, New Jersey – As Hella Winston reports for The Jewish Week, “.. a Jewish religious tribunal [is] operating as a kind of shadow justice system, adjudicating sexual abuse cases without the involvement of law enforcement… It is a world where victims and perpetrators alike are subjected to threats of social ostracism and, in some cases, physical harm for non-compliance ...