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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
Last Lawsuit Standing
I strongly recommend checking out Jeremy Scahill's new documentary on Blackwater and its alleged murder of a nine-year-old boy during the 2007 massacre at Nisour Square.
Marissa Colon-Margolies

January 29, 2010
Gawker hits HuffPost I Fund
Tough piece on Gawker yesterday about the HuffPost Investigative Fund. John Cook particularly goes after the project for running almost all of its investigations on its for-profit partner, The Huffington Post, along with a scattering of other sites, such as AlterNet and Common Dreams.
Esther Kaplan

January 26, 2010
Sri Lanka Blocks Websites Hours Before Announcement of Poll Results
After Google's announcement that it would stop filtering its search results in China when its email accounts were hacked from within the country, there's more news on the silencing of information front: Sri Lanka's main internet service provider blocked access to independent news websites just hours before the expected announcement of poll results.
Jayati Vora

January 26, 2010
For Obama, No Opportunity Too Big To Blow
Contrary to countless reports, the debacle in Copenhagen was not everyone's fault. It did not happen because human beings are incapable of agreeing, or are inherently self-destructive. Nor was it all was China's fault, or the fault of the hapless UN...
Naomi Klein

December 21, 2009
Ambassador Lumumba, What Do You Really Think?
On Wednesday in Copenhagen, I interviewed Lumumba Stanislaus Di-Aping, the chief negotiator for the G77, the largest developing country bloc represented at the climate summit in Copenhagen. Over the course of the negotiations, Ambassador Lumumba has gained a reputation for candor...
Naomi Klein

December 17, 2009
Climate Structural Adjustment: We’ll Save Your Life on Our Terms
It's the second to last day of the climate conference and I have the worst case of laryngitis of my life. I open my mouth and nothing comes out. It's frustrating because I was just at Hillary Clinton's press conference and desperately wanted to ask her a question...
Naomi Klein

December 17, 2009
Memo to Danes: Even You Cannot Control This Summit
On Saturday night, after a week of living off of conference center snack bars, a group of us were invited to a delicious home-cooked meal with a real live Danish family. After spending the evening gawking at their stylish furnishings, a few of us had a question...
Naomi Klein

December 13, 2009
Fight Climate Change, Not Wars
In the U.S. plenty of bloggers have pointed to the irony of Barack Obama collecting the Peace Prize while he launches a major escalation of the war in Afghanistan. Here in Copenhagen, the Nobel carries a special set of ironies...
Naomi Klein

December 10, 2009
Copenhagen: Where Africa Took on Obama
The highlight of my first day at COP15 was a conversation with the extraordinary Nigerian poet and activist Nnimmo Bassey, chair of Friends of the Earth International. We talked about the fact that some of the toughest activists here still pull their punches when it comes to Obama...
Naomi Klein

December 8, 2009
Blasts in Iraq Aren’t News Anymore
At the front desk, the hotel manager tells me to settle up my tab; it's been a long time and the bill is rising. "Tomorrow," I tell him...
Shane Bauer

February 21, 2009
Army Builds Fantasy Island in Second Life
The U.S. Army has scores of bases scattered all across the world. Soon, it’ll be occupying virtual territory in a bid to win recruits.
Nick Turse

December 3, 2008

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