InvestigationJustice Not a Lone Wolf Scott Roeder is now serving a life term for murdering abortion doctor George Tiller. But did he really act alone? Amanda RobbMs.May 27, 2010
InvestigationWorld Letter from Kathmandu Since 2006, when Nepal’s monarchy teetered, Kathmandu has been building a nascent democracy while wedged in a proxy battle between China and India. Greg BrunoForeign AffairsMay 27, 2010
AnalysisBusiness, Labor Regulators Charged with BP Oversight Used Porn, Crystal Meth on the Job No comment necessary. Nice story, AP. Esther KaplanMay 26, 2010
Inside TIJournalism 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 VoraMay 20, 2010
ImpactJustice 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-MargoliesMay 18, 2010
NewsBusiness, Environment 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 KusnetzMay 14, 2010
InvestigationBusiness, Politics When Whistle-blowers Fight Back During the boom, banks didn’t want to hear they were being ripped off. One internal fraud investigator, BB&T’s Amy Stroupe, paid a high price. (Read part 1 of this 2-part series here.) Michael W. HudsonThe Big MoneyMay 13, 2010
AnalysisPolitics 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 KaplanMay 12, 2010
ImpactJournalism 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 VoraMay 10, 2010
InvestigationBusiness Silencing the Whistleblowers In-house fraud investigators at some of the nation’s biggest banks and lenders go on the record about how these institutions failed to police themselves in the lead-up to the subprime crisis. (Read part 2 of this series here.) Michael W. HudsonThe Big MoneyMay 10, 2010