Inside TI

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 KusnetzFebruary 15, 2010

ImpactJustice

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 KaplanFebruary 15, 2010

InvestigationJustice, Politics

The Abandoned Orphanage

The behind-the-scenes story of how The Family brokered a truce between the pro-choice Hillary Clinton and Mother Teresa, the anti-choice nun, by moving Clinton rightward on reproductive rights.

Kathryn Joyce & Jeff SharletReligion DispatchesFebruary 12, 2010

Inside TIJournalism

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 KaplanFebruary 11, 2010

AnalysisBusiness

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 ConasonFebruary 10, 2010

AnalysisLabor

2009: Worst year for journalists

I shouldn’t state this publicly, but I’m beginning to feel immune to stories about journalists’ deaths…

Chantal FloresFebruary 5, 2010

InvestigationBusiness, Labor

Making Ends Meet in the Great Recession

The story of Tisha, an unemployed mother of three in Connecticut, who’s facing a social safety net shredded further by the economic crisis.

Seth Freed WesslerLink TVFebruary 3, 2010

NewsJustice

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 KusnetzFebruary 2, 2010

InvestigationJustice, World

For Us Surrender is Out of the Question

A story from Burma's never-ending war

Mac McClellandSoft Skull PressFebruary 1, 2010

InvestigationWorld

Moscow’s New Rules

It’s either death threats and assassinations or state subsidies with lots of strings attached; all in all, a tough time for investigative reporting in Russia. But some are gutting it out.

Adam FedermanColumbia Journalism ReviewFebruary 1, 2010

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