2003 KATY RECKDAHL — Completed a series of articles about the lives of poor people in New Orleans for Gambit, an alternative weekly. The articles often reported on the encounters between police/local authorities and poor people. A vivid example was her article on a police crackdown on kids who tapdance for change on street corners in the Latin Quarter. The ...
2003 WENDY SUE WILLIAMS — Completed her investigation of carbon sequestration and other emissions-trading schemes, questioning whether the purposes of the Kyoto treaty are being subverted. Her articles on the subject were published in Scientific American and the Boston Globe. It was also the subject of a lengthy interview with her on National Public Radio’s Living on Earth. ...
2003 SARA BETH MILLER — Investigated the plight of impoverished Moroccan children who illegally enter the Spanish outpost of Ceuta . The article was published in the news section of the Christian Science Monitor and subsequently was the basis of an expanded piece in the paper’s Ideas section. ...
2003 JOSEPH ROSENBLOOM — Investigated Tyson Food’s employment of illegal immigrants in its plants –and its subsequent exoneration by a jury considering criminal charges –in an article for The American Prospect. ...
2003 TOMRIC NEWS AGENCY — Completed six articles on looting and corruption, and the possible involvment of Al Qaeda, surrounding Tanzanite. Its articles have been published in the Sunday Observer and The Guardian, both of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, and have resulted in cases referred to the country’s attorney general and the Commission on Fair Trade Practices for possible action. ...
2003 JIM MORRIS — Investigated a toxic waste catastrophe in Jersey City. The case involved the widespread dumping of deadly chromium by local industries and twenty years of dithering by environmental agencies about cleaning it up. His story was published by the Dallas Morning News , where he now works. ...
2003 REBECCA CLARREN — Harvesting Poison investigated the dangers of pesticides to immigrant farm workers in an article published by High Country News . Her report included an excellent sidebar on the routine, illegal use of child labor on farms. Another version of Clarren’s article was published by The Nation . ...
2003 SUE SMITH-HEAVENRICH –Reported on sludge containing toxic chemicals that is sold commercially as “organic” fertilizer. Her article was published by the Maine Organic Farmer & Gardener. ...
2003 KOREN CAPOZZA — Investigated toxic chemical contamination at Fort Greely, Alaska – site of a secret U.S. military biological and chemical weapons testing program – in an article published by The Nation. ...
2003 GARRANCE BURKE — Investigated the long-running conflict in the Chiapas region of Mexico in a lengthy article published on-line by PBS’s Frontline / World Fellows program. ...