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Most everyone has probably read freelance reporter Michael Hastings' high-impact profile in Rolling Stone of the (now former) top commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal.
Jayati Vora
June 24, 2010
Dean Starkman wins Mirror Award
Congratulations to Dean Starkman, whose Investigative Fund-supported cover story in the Columbia Journalism Review, has won the Mirror Award...
Jayati Vora
June 22, 2010
Frisco on the Verge of Signing Law to Post Cell Phone Radiation
San Francisco will be the first city in the nation to pass a law requiring that retailers post the "specific absorption rate" or SAR of each cell phone they are selling, the LA Times...
Jayati Vora
June 18, 2010
Despite BP’s History, Obama Administration Let it Get Away With Murder
Tim Dickinson has a meaty investigative piece in Rolling Stone about the regulatory failure at the MMS under President Obama. Despite knowing that the agency was riddled with corruption...
Jayati Vora
June 15, 2010
The Killing of Henry Glover: Who Else Knew?
When I began investigating the mysterious death of Henry Glover, one of the most notable aspects of the case was the lack of documents.
A.C. Thompson
June 14, 2010
Five Indicted in Glover Case
Three New Orleans police officers and two former officers have been indicted in the shooting death of Henry Glover, a resident of New Orleans who bled to death while in police custody in the days after Hurricane Katrina.
Esther Kaplan
June 11, 2010
On the Migrant Trail
6:15 a.m.: I pull up to the Southside Presbyterian Church in Tucson. A dozen Latino men are waiting for work out front. One of them flags me, mistaking me for someone with a job to offer. I drive past him, into the parking lot where two women in broad-brimmed hats are...
Gaiutra Bahadur
June 10, 2010
American Apparel Won’t Hire You Unless You’re Hot
Nice scoop by Gawker. The website published documentation today of American Apparel's "Full Body Head to Toe" Employment Policy — that requires...
Marissa Colon-Margolies
June 9, 2010
IFUND Reporter on Human Trafficking and Media Panel
Some of you may remember our two-part series last fall on sex trafficking in The Nation (for those who aren't, I highly recommend reading it, even if you can't make it to the event).
Jayati Vora
June 9, 2010
Regulators Charged with BP Oversight Used Porn, Crystal Meth on the Job
No comment necessary. Nice story, AP.
Esther Kaplan
May 26, 2010
Bauer and Friends Receive Family Visit
After long weeks of waiting, the mothers of Investigative Fund reporter Shane Bauer and his two companions, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal, imprisoned in Tehran since their arrest near the Iraq/Iran border in late July...
Jayati Vora
May 20, 2010
After Sex Abuse, Bribery, the Vatican Takes a New Tone
In recent months a string of sex abuse scandals have rocked the Vatican, the latest of which, broken by the Investigative Fund’s Jason Berry...
Marissa Colon-Margolies
May 18, 2010
In the Shadow of BP, Small Spills Abound
As we highlighted last week, the federal government and news organizations have responded to the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico with a flurry of hearings, reports, and investigations...
Nicholas Kusnetz
May 14, 2010
Right-Wing Think Tanks Discover “Investigative Reporting”
There's a fascinating story in the new Washington Monthly by Laura McGann about the new wave of highly partisan "investigative reporting" on the right. Sometimes, as she points out, these efforts produce strong, legitimate muckraking work...
Esther Kaplan
May 12, 2010
Honors For IFUND Reporter and Photograper
Anna Lenzer's fall 2009 Mother Jones cover story, "Spin the Bottle," which made waves across the globe when it was published, has won the 2010 Maggie Award...
Jayati Vora
May 10, 2010
Worldfocus Has Shut Its Doors
A year ago, the nightly public television news program Worldfocus landed a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for its report "War in DR Congo." It scored two Emmy nominations...
Brian Palmer
May 6, 2010
World Press Freedom Day
"Countless journalists have been harassed, threatened and killed. It has been my honour to belong to all those categories and now especially the last," wrote Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickramatunga in an editorial published three days after his death.
Chantal Flores
May 3, 2010
Investigative Pieces Probe Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
An array of investigative pieces have appeared on both the ProPublica website and in The Wall Street Journal about the recent deadly oil spill off the Gulf of Mexico.
Jayati Vora
May 3, 2010
Roston Wins Daniel Pearl Award
Reporter Aram Roston won the Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting for his Investigative Fund piece, How the US Funds the Taliban, published in The Nation in November 2009.
Jayati Vora
April 26, 2010
Get Breast Cancer; Lose Health Insurance
Thanks to Lucinda Marshall at Feminist Peace Network for pointing us to an amazing, if demoralizing, investigation into WellPoint...
Esther Kaplan
April 26, 2010
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