We are delighted to announce the newest group of journalists who are receiving grants and other support from the Fund for Investigative Journalism to produce groundbreaking stories. Our 12 newest grantees are based in nine states across the country. We do not disclose the nature of our grantees’ investigations until they are published. The next deadline to apply for grants ...
By Eric Ferrero, Executive DirectorIt’s been six months since Jane C. Hu’s deeply reported investigation on public health officials being hounded out of their jobs by right-wing extremists was published, and I still talk about her story nearly every week. It’s one of those stories that sticks with you – partly because it’s even more relevant now than when it ...
Heat kills. And in the United States in the past decade, heat has killed nearly 400 workers — mostly people of color — who were employed in often-grueling outdoor work collecting trash, picking crops and constructing buildings. But it took a team of investigative reporters from Columbia Journalism Investigations and National Public Radio, with support from the Fund, to focus ...
The bankruptcy of prominent Easterday Ranches in Washington State, where owner Cody Easterday had lost more than $200 million in cattle futures, offered a rare opportunity to examine the opaque world of beef pricing, and in particular, Tyson Foods, one of four meat packing corporations controlling 73 percent of the protein market in the United States. Easterday was being prosecuted ...
Reveal exposes how a lack of enforcement mechanisms and patchwork state laws have contributed to the deaths of dozens of domestic violence victims. FIJ Grantee, Jennifer Gollan, did an analysis of 21 states and tallied the number of intimate partners, children and bystanders whose lives are shattered by abusers who fail to give up their firearms. She found that from ...
As part of a months-long investigation, “Locked Up and Left to Die,” reporters Michael Barajas and Sophie Novack reviewed more than 400 investigations by the Texas Rangers, the detective arm of the state police. “The records show that state police regularly document jail conditions that can lead to preventable deaths,” Barajas and Novack write. Records received from the Texas Commission ...
WASHINGTON, DC, October 29, 2021 – The Fund for Investigative Journalism today announced that its board of directors awarded grants to reporters for 20 new investigative projects in its most recent round of funding. Journalists receiving grants also have the opportunity to be paired with seasoned journalists who serve as editorial mentors, request pro bono legal assistance through the Fund’s ...
By Eric Ferrero, Executive Director A remarkable new investigation on NPR found that heat is killing workers in the U.S. – particularly people of color – and that there are no federal rules to protect them. A team of investigative reporters across four media organizations in several states found that at least 384 workers have died from environmental hear exposure ...
Nearly 60 years after the city of Long Beach purchased the historic RMS Queen Mary at auction, the ship is in disarray. The city and a string of operators have sunk millions of dollars into the aging vessel, and it still has a host of structural problems that render it unsafe to the public. A team at the Long Beach ...
FIJ Grantee, Noy Thrupkaew, investigated the stories of dozens of diplomatic domestic workers in the U.S. for an upcoming feature in The Washington Post Magazine.Noy learned diplomatic domestic workers have been victims of all sorts of abuse, including labor trafficking while working for diplomats in the U.S. While lawyers, domestic worker organizers, and advocates have won civil suits, settlements, and immigration ...