2009 GARETH PORTER — Gareth Porter completed a penetrating investigation of the 1996 truck bomb explosion in the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 US airmen and wounded 372. In a five-part series for the Inter Press Service News Agency (July 2009), he uncovered a deliberate Saudi effort, aided and abetted by then FBI Director Louis Freeh, to ...
2009 PROGRESSIVE MAGAZINE — Progressive Magazine celebrated its 100th anniversary with a FIJ-supported book devoted to many of its best investigative articles, from Robert LaFollette’s 1921 investigation of Teapot Dome to a 2001 expose of how the U.S. used sanctions to degrade Iraq’s water supply following the Gulf War. ...
2008 BART JONES — Bart Jones completed his investigative biography of Hugo Chavez, titled Hugo! : The Hugo Chavez Story from Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution. The book was published by Steer Forth Press. One reviewer called it a “masterful achievement that finally puts this crucial Latin American figure … into context within Venezeula, within Latin America, as well as ...
2008 RACHEL GRAVES — Rachel Graves completed her article tracking the easy flow of handguns from manufacturer to owners – both legal and illegal – and about the politics of the gun ownership debate. It was published by the Christian Science Monitor. ...
2008 PHIL BURNHAM — Phil Burnham completed his article on the gradual disappearance of African Americans from Williamsburg since the Rockefeller Foundation turned it into a tourist attraction. He also completed his series of articles on the taking of Native American property by the U.S. military during World War II. ...
2008 REBECCA CLARREN — Rebecca Clarren completed her article on agricultural pesticide drift and measures that a local community has taken to monitor it effects. It was published by Orion magazine. Clarren also now has a regular blog on agricultural and environmental issues published by High Country News. Her article on the ethanol craze in the Midwest was published by ...
2008 CHRIS KETCHAM — Chris Ketcham completed his article questioning whether the government is compiling a list of people who should be detained in the event of declaration of martial law. It was published by Radar magazine. ...
2008 CHRIS PALA — Chris Pala completed his article on the effect that “algae farming” is having on the world’s coral reefs. It was published by the New York Times. ...
2007 JESSICA SNYDER SACHS — Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World by Jessica Snyder Sachs, winner of the 2005 book award, has been published by Hill and Wang and is available in bookstores. Her argument is that “antibiotic resistance now ranks among the gravest medical problems of modern times”. “Public sanitation and antibiotic drugs have ...
2007 CHICAGO REPORTER — The Chicago Reporter published its article on the use of city employees to gather nominating petitions for Mayor Daley and his cohorts. ...