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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
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
Another Questionable Case on Texas’s Death Row
A number of stories published over the last six months have drawn attention to Texas’s questionable death row policies. Now, The Texas Tribune has the latest...
Nicholas Kusnetz

February 2, 2010
Chicago Trib nursing home exposé
Thanks to our friends at Pro Publica for highlighting a great investigation by The Chicago Tribune into the Illinois practice of nursing homes mixing their populations of mentally ill felons with the elderly...
Jayati Vora

February 1, 2010
Thompson named Goldsmith finalist
Great news today that A.C. Thompson was named a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, for a series of reports on white vigilante violence in New Orleans — and NOPD complicity — in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Esther Kaplan

January 29, 2010