2011 Mary Lou Simms – For McClatchy-Tribune News Service, Simms reports on the U. S. Department of Agriculture program that exterminates wild birds and animals: “Wildlife Services is the little-known branch of the USDA deemed largely responsible for geese slaughters coast to coast. Buried under several layers of bureaucracy, Wildlife Services prefers to stay under the radar. However, a copy of a ...
2011 Isabel Morales and Julian Resendiz with photojournalist William Fernando Martinez – Bogota, COLOMBIA — The death of her 20-year-old son at the hands of Colombia’s military was but the beginning of Gloria Mancera’s ordeal. In the four years that followed, Mancera, 44, fled her small farm in the town of Granada with her daughters in tow, changed her name, slept ...
2011 Jason Berry – In “Render Unto Rome: The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church,” Jason Berry exposes the secrecy and deceit that run counter to the values of the Catholic Church. There is no doubt that historically the Catholic Church has been one of the great engines of charity in history. But what happens to tens of ...
2011 Sue Sturgis – In a five part series published by Facing South, Sturgis reports that one 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 ...
2011 City Limits – In the May/June issue of City Limits, 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. ...
2011 Rebekah Cowell – Reporting a 3 part series in Independent Weekly, The Triangle’s Weekly in North Carolina. 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 on the Edge: Residents endure legacy of old Chatham County landfill.” Part 3. “Digging Deeper: In Orange ...
2011 Orla Ryan – From bean to bar – where does your chocolate come from? Chocolate. The very word 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 children who work on plantations to the smallholders who harvest the beans, Chocolate Nations reveals ...
2011 Wanjohi Kabukuru – “Merchants of Peril: Deadly Pesticides Pose Death, Pollution for EA.” 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 ...
2011 Joel Brinkley – 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 services without a bribe. He learned ...
2011 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. ...