Louisiana State University is letting oil companies influence its research work – if they donate enough money to the university – according to a new report by Sara Sneath, with support from the Fund. For a story co-published by The Lens in New Orleans and The Guardian, Sneath obtained emails and documents that the university’s fundraising arm circulated to oil ...
Migrants in a Chicago shelter lived in unsafe conditions before and after the high-profile death of a child at the shelter, according to an investigation by Borderless Magazine, with support from the Fund. Mauricio Pena, Katrina Pham and Nissa Rhee reported that a dozen migrants filed complaints of inhumane conditions, including freezing temperatures in the shelter and outbreaks of chickenpox, ...
Three years ago, a group of Muslim people in prison in Missouri were beaten because they we were praying. Jen Marlowe, with support from the Fund, has spent the last 18 months investigating the incident for a story in Al Jazeera English. Her reporting took her deep into rural Missouri to talk to the impacted men in three of the ...
In an investigation for Texas Monthly, Aaron Nelsen dug into what is – and isn’t – known about migrant deaths along the U.S./Mexico border. He reported that U.S. immigration policy has intentionally funneled migrants into dangerous crossing areas for decades, to deter them from making the journey, and experts estimate that thousands have drowned in the Rio Grande River. It’s ...
The City, a nonprofit news organization in New York, ran a multimedia investigation on clean-up efforts at four toxic federal Superfund sites in New York City. The project included traditional reporting, visual journalism, mapping, audio and public meetings. Samantha Maldonado and Jordan Gass-Poore led the reporting, which dug into each of the four sites’ past, present and potential future. The ...
Officials in Chicago are failing to meet their legal obligations to turn over evidence that would be helpful to the defense, including information that calls into question the credibility of prosecution witnesses, such as police officers, according to a new investigation by the Invisible Institute and the Chicago Reader. With support from the Fund, Max Blaisdell, Sam Stecklow and Matt ...
For The Food Section, an online outlet that covers food and drink in the southern U.S., Hanna Raskin investigated potential Salmonella contamination on squab, a flightless pigeon that is consumed mostly by Egyptian and Chinese immigrants. With support from the Fund, Raskin found that microbiological testing is not being conducted on squab farmed in the U.S., despite a longstanding governmental ...
For a story in Es Mental, a health magazine in Puerto Rico, reporter Jeniffer Wiscovitch Padilla found that fentanyl deaths in Puerto Rico have increased dramatically in the last four years – and that Puerto Rico’s forensic agency has not been equipped to handle the situation. With support from the Fund, Padilla spent three months analyzing data and conducting interviews. ...
The team of journalists that produced an 18-month investigation of prosecutorial misconduct in Ohio published a follow-up story showing that, in several cases, prosecutors withheld key evidence that could have led to acquittals. With support from the Fund, Columbia Journalism Investigations, NPR and member stations WVXU/Cincinnati Public Radio, Ideastream Public Media and the Ohio Newsroom analyzed more than 1,600 appellate ...
In the second part of a Texas Observer investigation into conservative billionaires’ influence on public schools, Steven Monacelli reported on some school board members quietly hiring a GOP-affiliated law firm to draft a new policy targeting social issues such as “critical race theory,” “gender fluidity” and “potentially pornographic material.” With support from the Fund, Monacelli reported that when other board members ...