ImpactJournalism 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 VoraApril 26, 2010
Inside TIJournalism Shane Bauer, in Iran Jail, Speaks to Mother Investigative Fund reporter Shane Bauer, and his hiking companions Nora Shourd and Joshua Fattal, who have been in Tehran’s Evin Prison since last summer, were finally able to speak to their parents over the phone. Jayati VoraApril 21, 2010
NewsJustice 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 VoraApril 20, 2010
ImpactJournalism 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 VoraApril 15, 2010
ImpactJournalism “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 VoraMarch 1, 2010
NewsJustice, World 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 VoraFebruary 27, 2010
NewsHealth 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 VoraFebruary 1, 2010
NewsPolitics, World 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 VoraJanuary 26, 2010
BackstoryPolitics The Backstory: Sarah Blustain During the 2008 presidential campaign, Sen. John McCain projected an image as a maverick, even on the issue of reproductive choice. Sarah Blustain shares how she trekked through the backroads of Arizona in search of his true colors. Jayati VoraAugust 12, 2009
BackstoryBusiness The Backstory: Dean Starkman Dean Starkman talks about wading through thousands of major articles from The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Business Week and the rest of the leading financial press to solve the question: did journalists fail to see the financial crisis in the making? Dean Starkman & Jayati VoraJuly 31, 2009