Eight years after a private company took over a Los Angeles-area nursing home that had been run by a Japanese nonprofit, 115 patients died of COVID. Local members of the Japanese community, who had opposed the sale, pointed to the deaths and scores of earlier complaints as evidence of a sharp decline in care. With support from the Fund, AsAmNews, ...
Washington, DC, has committed to eliminate the use of fossil fuels – but the local gas utility is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to replace the underground pipe system that would perpetuate the use of fossil fuels, according to an investigative podcast by Hola Cultura, with support from the Fund. The podcast delves into the public-relations battle between Washington ...
Conservative U.S.-based organizations that encourage people to change their sexual orientation and “leave” the LGBTQ community are shifting their focus to Europe, after failing to get a foothold in the U.S., according to an investigation by Finbarr Toesland for Byline Times, with support from the Fund. Toesland reported on the “ex-gay” CHANGED Movement, housed at Bethel Church in Redding, California, ...
A change in town policy over seasonal employees sleeping in tents has fueled a housing shortage for year-round residents in a small Alaskan cruise ship town, according to reporting by Molly McCluskey, who used a seed grant from the Fund to conduct initial research and reporting into Skagway’s housing shortage for KHNS, the NPR-affiliate serving Alaska’s northern panhandle communities. McCluskey ...
Grantee investigation shows that Seattle misrepresented river dam’s impact on Indigenous communities
The City of Seattle has misrepresented the environmental impacts of its dams for decades, Rico Moore found in an investigation for The Margin and The Nation. Moore uncovered evidence from contemporary science, historical documents, public records, presentations and interviews, showing that Seattle’s City Light Department may have been motivated by a desire to protect its hydroelectric assets and the benefits ...
When a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot a man 10 minutes from journalist Lila Hassan’s parents’ Brooklyn home four years ago, she began looking into how many other people have been shot by ICE agents. To get that information, she had to file a lawsuit against ICE to obtain records of all of the ICE-officer-involved shootings from ...
After Katherine Eban and her students from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY published an investigation in STAT on Mount Sinai medical center’s controversial brain research project, the hospital system waged a behind-the-scenes campaign to blunt fallout from the story. Eban and her students received support from the Fund for both the original investigation and follow-up coverage ...
A team from Univision, with support from the Fund, traveled to Michigan, North Carolina and Florida and outfitted farmworkers with silicone wristbands developed by a lab to detect up to 75 types of pesticides. Patricia Clarembaux, Federica Narancio and Esther Poveda also interviewed experts, advocates and farmworkers. They uncovered harrowing stories of pesticide exposure, including one worker who experienced serious ...
For a yearlong investigation at Injustice Watch, with support from the Fund, senior reporters Alejandra Cancino and Maya Dukmasova dug into the unfair treatment of thousands of Chicago renters living in unsafe and decaying apartments while facing skyrocketing rents and a court system designed to protect the rights of landlords first. The pair interviewed more than 100 tenants, landlords, judges, ...
California sharply cut back its enforcement of outdoor heat-protection laws as extreme heat intensified in recent years, endangering farmworkers and others who toil in scorching temperatures, according to an investigation by Robert J. Lopez, with support from the Fund. The report, co-published in the Los Angeles Times and Capital & Main, found that on-site safety inspections by Cal/OSHA dropped by ...