InvestigationPolitics Money and Influence Peddling in the Vatican The late Father Marcial Maciel Degollado was a fabulously successful fundraiser and magnetic recruiter for the Catholic Church. He was also a notorious pedophile who fathered several children while a priest. A tale of evading accountability. (Part 1 of 2; read part 2 here.) Jason BerryNational Catholic ReporterApril 6, 2010
ImpactJournalism 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 KaplanMarch 29, 2010
NewsJustice, World 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 HouppertMarch 27, 2010
NewsBusiness 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-MargoliesMarch 26, 2010
ImpactJournalism 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 KaplanMarch 18, 2010
InvestigationWorld For Us, Surrender Is Out of the Question An inside look at Burma’s brutal war on its Karen minority through the eyes of the exile activists who risk their lives to document its worst atrocities. Mac McClellandMother JonesMarch 10, 2010
Inside TIBusiness, Environment 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 KaplanMarch 2, 2010
NewsEnvironment, World 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 FloresMarch 2, 2010
NewsEnvironment, Health 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 KusnetzMarch 2, 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