Investigations

InvestigationImmigration, Labor, Politics

How US Policies Fueled Mexico’s Migration

Impoverished by NAFTA, residents of Veracruz crossed the border to work in Smithfield’s Tar Heel slaughterhouse. Now they’re condemned as “illegals.”

David BaconThe NationJanuary 4, 2012

AnalysisWorld

10 Best Investigative Outlets You’ve Never Heard Of

Sometime during this past year I began to grow curious about how investigative journalism is practiced in other parts of the world. In the United States, severe newsroom cuts have meant that budgets were slashed for investigative reporting…

Jayati VoraDecember 21, 2011

Inside TIJournalism

Announcing the Winners of the I.F. Stone Award

The Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute is pleased to announce the winners of the inaugural I.F. Stone Award, created to support original investigative reporting by emerging journalists, such as journalism grad students, recent journalism school graduates and interns.

Onnesha RoychoudhuriDecember 20, 2011

InvestigationImmigration, World

Torn Apart

Nebraska child welfare officials took Maria Luis’s kids, then US immigration officers sent her back to Guatemala. How deportation is tearing apart families.

Aaron NelsenIn These TimesDecember 20, 2011

InvestigationPolitics, World

Dictators Rely on DC Front Men

Professors and lobbyists tout autocrats from Central Asian countries inside the beltway, skirting disclosure laws.

Ken SilversteinSalon.comDecember 14, 2011

AnalysisWorld

In Iran, Journalism is an “Anti-State” Activity

In its December 8 report, the Committee to Protect Journalists announced that Iran was the worst place in the world for journalists in 2011. According to this report, 179 writers, editors, and photojournalists have been imprisoned around the world this year…

Roozbeh MirebrahimiDecember 14, 2011

ImpactJustice

Rapes in Indian Country

In January, Investigative Fund reporter Kathy Dobie wrote a shocking and sobering piece for Harper’s magazine (newly available its entirety) about the invisible war on women that is raging in Indian country.

Jayati VoraDecember 9, 2011

InvestigationPolitics

How Bahrain Works Washington

In the latest twist on lobbying, Middle East autocracies repackage propaganda as “media awareness.”

Ken SilversteinSalon.comDecember 8, 2011

NewsTechnology

Mad Libbing Journalism Speeches

Cranking out a speech for a journalism conference? Check out Justin Peters’ handy Mad Libs guide over at the Columbia Journalism Review website. Just insert the relevant scare words and sports…

Jayati VoraDecember 6, 2011

NewsJustice, World

Genocide Judges Duel it Out in Phnom Penh

A Swiss judge announces his arrival. His Cambodian counterpart immediately and publicly refuses to work with him. Today’s developments in Phnom Penh showed that things remain as a bad as ever for the UN-sponsored office charged with the investigation of Khmer Rouge crimes against humanity, genocide, and war crimes.

Douglas GillisonDecember 6, 2011

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