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Investigative Fund Relaunches with New Name
Type Investigations builds on more than a decade of award-winning journalism.
Esther Kaplan
January 15, 2019
Jason Berry Interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition
Reporter Jason Berry, whose recent investigation of the Legion of Christ's Father Marcial Maciel was published in a two-part series in the National Catholic Reporter, was interviewed today on NPR's Morning Edition.
Jayati Vora
April 20, 2010
New Developments in Post-Katrina Shootings
Yet another officer has been implicated in covering up the death of Henry Glover, who died while in the custody of the New Orleans Police Department, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports....
Esther Kaplan
April 17, 2010
I Fund Stories Honored for Best Poverty Reporting
Investigative Fund projects "Opportunity Knocks," Paul Reyes' piece in the Fall 2009 Virginia Quarterly Review, and "There Goes the Neighborhood" by Alyssa Katz, published in the September 2009 American Prospect, are two of the three finalists for the Harry Chapin Media Award for magazine reporting on poverty and hunger....
Jayati Vora
April 15, 2010
Newspaper Layoffs Aren’t Color-Blind
Massive job loses over the last couple of years have fallen particularly hard on people of color, hitting groups already plagued by high unemployment. It turns out this trend applies to the news business too. As daily newspapers continue to hemorrhage staff, these groups are losing out at a higher rate, according to the annual newsroom census by the American Society of Newspapers and Editors.
Nicholas Kusnetz
April 15, 2010
A Nod from the WashPost
A Roy Harris piece in The Washington Post today on the Pulitzer Prize and the future of journalism mentions an Investigative Fund collaboration with ProPublica and the New Orleans Times-Picayune...
Esther Kaplan
April 12, 2010
Wikileaks, Whistleblowing Website, in Spotlight
Until Wikileaks.org posted the horrifying video of an American attack helicopter shooting civilians in Iraq — including two journalists — the pioneering whistleblower website was little known to the general public.
Joe Conason
April 9, 2010
Three Investigative Fund Stories Honored by IRE
Today Investigative Reporters and Editors honored two Investigative Fund stories published in collaboration with The Nation — A.C. Thompson's exposé of racial violence in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and Aram Roston's probe into corruption in US contracting in Afghanistan. Plus...
Esther Kaplan
March 29, 2010
KBR on Trial — At Last
Five years after alerting authorities that she was gang-raped in Iraq, KBR/Halliburton employee Jamie Leigh Jones will finally get her day in court...
Karen Houppert
March 27, 2010
UBS, JP Morgan Implicated in Scheme To Cheat Taxpayers
Over a dozen Wall Street firms, including Bank of America Corp., JP Morgan Chase & Co., UBS AG and the financial services arm of General Electric Co. have been implicated in a conspiracy to defraud taxpayers,
Marissa Colon-Margolies
March 26, 2010
More Award Finalists
Aram Roston's Investigative Fund probe, "How the US Funds the Taliban," which ran as a Nation cover story, has just been named a finalist for the Daniel Pearl Award...
Esther Kaplan
March 18, 2010
Spreading the Word on Fiji Water
Anna Lenzer's Fiji Water investigation from late last year is still making waves. After tearing up the Twittersphere for months, attracting defensive counter-Tweets from Fiji Water owner Lynda Resnick, and being reprinted as far and wide as the UK and Australia, the investigation started to leak into foodie circles....
Esther Kaplan
March 2, 2010
Global Water Crisis
In many cases, when reporting on crises, voices of people get lost among statistics and comparisons. The global water crisis has been gaining momentum and stories about a potential "water bankruptcy" are not futuristic anymore.
Chantal Flores
March 2, 2010
News Outlets Cover Local Effects of Toxic Coal Ash
Two local news outlets picked up on a report last week detailing the damages of coal ash contamination. Both The Michigan Messenger and The New Mexico Independent used the opportunity to cover the impact of coal ash in their communities detailed in the report.
Nicholas Kusnetz
March 2, 2010
“Power Problem” a Finalist for Media Criticism Award
Dean Starkman's May 2009 enlightening investigation in the Columbia Journalism Review is one of four finalists for the Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism.
Jayati Vora
March 1, 2010
Democracy Now! Interviews Mothers of Jailed American Hikers
Six months since their arrest by Iranian officials, Investigative Fund reporter Shane Bauer and his two companions, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal, are still in custody in Tehran....
Jayati Vora
February 27, 2010
Tracking Lobbyist Spending on the Local Level
The New Mexico Independent, an online-only news organization, has a series of posts tracking lobbyist spending in the state capital, with short entries that include links to pdfs of individual filings. The biggest expenditure is a $9,040 cocktail dinner and breakfast combo...
Nicholas Kusnetz
February 15, 2010
Justice at Last?
Justice may finally be imaginable for Edna Glover and her family. The charred remains of her son Henry were discovered in the burnt hulk of a car on a levee overlooking the Mississippi River a week after Hurricane Katrina...
Esther Kaplan
February 15, 2010
Welcome!
Welcome to our new website! Now you can see all of our Investigative Fund work in one place — whether it's exposés of human rights abuses in Iraq, civil rights violations here at home, environmental toxins where we live and work, or...
Esther Kaplan
February 11, 2010
Alt Weekly Pioneered Probe of Prius Dangers
Alternative weeklies, those hippie outposts of the old print media, often provide an important outlet for investigative stories that are far ahead of their mainstream competitors. The latest example is the exposure of dangerous design flaws in the Toyota Prius...
Joe Conason
February 10, 2010
2009: Worst year for journalists
I shouldn't state this publicly, but I'm beginning to feel immune to stories about journalists' deaths...
Chantal Flores
February 5, 2010
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