2004 ELIZA GRISWOLD — Investigated the strange interplay of forces in a remote area of Pakistan called Waziristan, reputed to be the hiding place of Osama bin Laden. Griswold was the first recipient of the Fund’s Robert Friedman Award for International Investigative Reporting. Her article was published in the New Yorker . ...
2004 PRATAP CHATTERJEE AND RANIA MASRI — Occupation Inc. investigated war profiteering by American contractors in Iraq during the early stages of U.S. occupation. Their article was published by Southern Exposure . ...
2004 THOMAS LOWENSTEIN — Two articles calling into question the guilt of Pennsylvania man on death row for the murder of a child. The articles were published by the Philadelphia Citypaper. ...
2004 JIM WYSS — Investigated the massacre of 25 women and children in Ecuador’s Amazon forest. They were members of the Tagaeri-Taromenane tribe that has been swept up in violence fueled by illegal logging in the area. His articles were published in the Miami Herald and the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Herald also published several excellent photographs by Wyss. ...
2004 RACHEL SMOLKIN — Examined newsroom cutbacks at newspapers owned by the Tribune Company, now the nation’s third-largest newspaper company by circulation. Her article, Uncertain Times, was published by American Journalism Review . ...
2004 PASCALE BONNEFOY — Investigated torture and abuse at Chile’s National Stadium during the Pinochet dictatorship in Terrorismo de Estadio, a Spanish-language book published by Ediciones Chile America – CESOC. ...
2003 ANNE-MARIE CUSAC — Explored union-busting techniques used by today’s employers in Brazen Bosses, published by The Progressive magazine. ...
2003 ARLENE EDMONDS — Exposed the practice of social service agencies removing children from their homes solely because their parents are living in poverty. Her article, Parental Rights: Losing Children to Poverty, was the cover story in the Philadelphia Tribune Magazine . ...
2003 LIZA FEATHERSTONE — Investigated the treatment of female workers by Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest employer, in Wal-Mart Values. Her article was the cover story in the Nation magazine. ...
2003 DAN FERBER — Wrote several articles for Science magazine exposing the Bush administration’s attempt to politicize the membership of scientific advisory panels. His stories prompted similar articles in the Washington Post, New York Times, Time.com and other publications. ...