2001 KATY RECKDAHL — The first in a series of stories on the juvenile justice system in New Orleans detailed efforts by two eight-grade students charged with a school shooting to obtain a trial by jury, since the state was trying them as adults. It was published May 22, 2001 in Gambit Weekly . A trial judge subsequently ruled for ...
2001 JEREMY BIGWOOD — The Accidental Spy, a first-person account of Bigwood’s discovery that the U.S. Government had access to thousands of his photographs taken while working in Central America for the Gamma Liaison news agency from 1984 to 1994, was published in the July/August issue of American Journalism Review. ...
2001 JANET GARDNER –Documentary on Operation Babylift, the effort to rescue more than 2,000 infants and children at the close of the Vietnam War, and its enduring impact on their lives and the U.S. families who adopted them. PBS stations will broadcast the documentary nationally in November as part of “National Adoption Month.” Information on the project is available at ...
2001 ALAN LIPKE — Are We Still Making Progress? combined elements of a radio documentary on an 1898 race riot in Wilmington, N.C. with a public forum on present day race relations in the area. The two-hour program was broadcast on March 22, 2001 by WHQR-FM, public radio in Wilmington. Public Radio International will broadcast the finished documentary in February ...
2001 STEVE WEINBERG — A brief profile of the “patron saint” of investigative reporting, Ida Tarbell, published in the May-June 2001 issue of Columbia Journalism Review devoted to “The Investigators.” It is available online at http://www.cjr.org/year/01/3/tarbell.asp ...
2001 JOHN KAMAU — British Bombs Cause Mayhem, reporting on deaths and injuries in rural Kenya caused by munitions used in military training exercises, was published in the June 2001 issue of New Africa magazine. The magazine is available at www.africicasia.com/icpubs although at last check this article was not available online. Another story, Cover-up of British Bombs, published by Rights ...
2001 CHARLES BANDA — Investigated deplorable prison conditions in southern Malawi in eighteen articles published in the newspaper African Witness. The stories detailed widespread cases of disease, malnutrition, extreme over-crowding, rape and murder. In August the president of Malawi released 880 prisoners in an effort to relieve conditions. Banda has received the second half of his grant but is continuing ...
2001 LEAH SAMUEL — Reported on illegal and irregular management practices of the Detroit Public Library system in a story published by the Michigan Citizen. Among other things, Samuel revealed that the library’s general fund account is chronically overdrawn, that money is spent without contracts or proper records and that the system operates with virtually no public oversight. ...
2001 KEN SILVERSTEIN — U.S. Oil Politics in “The Kuwait of Africa” investigated the pillaging of Equatorial Guinea by U.S. oil companies. The article was the cover story in The Nation . ...
2001 KATY RECKDAHL — Continued her periodic series on the juvenile justice system in Louisiana for the Gambit weekly newspaper with an account of the system’s faltering effort to deal with girls, who now account for one of every four juveniles arrested. In October she wrote about allegations of abuse at the Tallulah juvenile prison. ...