A year after the BP oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, a growing number of cleanup workers and coastal residents are reporting debilitating health problems associated with exposure to toxic chemicals in crude oil and dispersants. Faced with inaction from the federal government, victims are organizing a grassroots movement to demand action. The investigation also examined the broader problem ...
Connecticut’s private employers have seen the price of health insurance premiums for workers and their families rise 102 percent since 1999, an analysis by the Connecticut Health Investigative Team shows. The amount that families pay for this coverage rose an even steeper 107 percent. The increases came during a decade when median household income in Connecticut grew by less than ...
“All the Justice Money Can Buy” is the true-life story of a courtroom showdown between the man many consider the best trial lawyer of his generation and one of the nation’s richest and most-respected corporations. Recipient of the 2009 Gene Roberts Book Award, investigative journalist and former National Public Radio (NPR) reporter Snigdha Prakash was embedded with the plaintiffs’ team for the ...
WASHINGTON – (June 8, 2011) The Board of Directors of the Fund for Investigative Journalism has awarded eleven grants to independent watchdog journalists in the United States, Asia, Africa, and Europe. The board awarded $35,200 in grants to cover travel and other reporting expenses for investigative stories that otherwise would not be told. Significant support from the Ethics and Excellence ...
In City Limits, an investigative magazine that covers New York City, Kelly Virella examines what sexual abuse reports reveal about how New York’s prisons track and investigate sexual misconduct, the history of legal wrangling and labor rules behind prison policies, and the nuances of sex and “romance” in women’s prisons. The investigation reveals facts crucial to understanding and preventing prison sex abuse. ...
From North Carolina, Rebekah Cowell’s 3 part series reported on how low income communities get stuck with other people’s waste for Independent Weekly, the weekly paper covering The Triangle region of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill. Part 1. “The Waste Land: The people of Lincoln Heights live among three city dumps. This is the story of their war on trash.” Part 2. “Living ...
Orla Ryan’s Chocolate Nations exposes the true story of how the treat we love makes it onto our supermarket shelves. From bean to bar – where does your chocolate come from? The very word “chocolate” hints of the forbidden and a taste of the decadent. Yet the story behind the chocolate bar is rarely one of luxury. From the thousands of ...
“Merchants of Peril: Deadly Pesticides Post Death, Pollution for EA,” by Wanjohi Kabukuru. They are hazardous, portend grim and fatal implications and adversely affect all living things. And East Africa is still stocking them. Click here to read. ...
Joel Brinkley’s investigative reporting in modern Cambodia found “willful mismanagement” of the country. In 1992, Cambodia became a United Nations protectorate – the first and only time the UN tried something so ambitious. What did the new, democratically-elected government do with this unprecedented gift? Brinkley found a people in the grip of a venal government that refuses to provide even the most basic ...
Moment Magazine – “They Had The Wrong Name At the Wrong Place At The Wrong Time,” an investigation by Moment’s editor and publisher, Nadine Epstein, into discrimination against Jews who worked for the U.S. Army Corps at Fort Monmouth, NJ in the wake of Julius Rosenberg’s arrest. ...