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 ...
(Washington) – During the past year and a half, more than twenty experienced reporters and news executives have mentored FIJ grantees, lending a hand in the reporting, writing and editing of their work. The executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), Mark Horvit, recruits the mentors from the roster of IRE members. In so doing, he has lined up some of the biggest names in ...
(Washington) – On Monday night, young people displayed artwork, pounded on drums, performed a harpsichord solo, and read a book aloud. A young boy voiced his dream to amass the “most grandiose home library” imaginable. A young girl recited her poem “I Have the Potential,” delivered with the kicker: “My work is more than just the results of some standardized tests.” ...
Washington (October 21, 2011) The American Journalism Review profiles the Fund for Investigative Journalism and its support of the “independent, intrepid reporter” with a “long track record of underwriting accountability reporting.” ...