Grantees investigate emotional abuse in college sports for in-depth NPR report
For a story that aired nationally on NPR, Julia Haney and Elizabeth Santos investigated emotional abuse in college sports. With support from the Fund, they reported that…
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In follow-up coverage, grantee uncovers deeper problems at DC’s troubled psychiatric hospital
With a follow-up grant from the Fund after his initial investigation last year, Luke Mullins reported for Washingtonian Magazine that conditions inside the Psychiatric…
Grantee sues New York state agency to get records on prison staff accused of sexual assault
For more than a year, reporters at New York Focus and Hell Gate, with support from the Fund, have been reporting on a flood of sexual-abuse lawsuits filed by people held…
Grantees investigate impact of contaminated water from California prison on residents of nearby town
Freelance journalist Emily Nonko teamed up with D. Razor Babb, a journalist who is incarcerated in state prison in California, to report on health concerns stemming from…
Nearly four years later, transgender Indigenous woman’s killer in South Dakota receives minimal sentence
South Dakota Searchlight and ICT, with support from the Fund, have teamed up for a long-term project to document cases of missing and murdered Indigenous people in South…
Grantee examines Bitcoin mining facility in Oklahoma that received OSHA fines in race to build data centers
With support from the Fund, Streetlight, a nonprofit news outlet, found that a Muskogee, Oklahoma, data center has received workplace safety and state environmental…
Grantee probes ‘model’ S.F. complex for the formerly homeless, where a man lay dead for days unnoticed
Close to one-third of all city-funded apartments for formerly homeless people in San Francisco are run by the nonprofit HomeRise, but the organization has struggled to…
Public-radio documentary digs into environmental concerns along U.S./Mexico border
For KUNM, the public radio station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Kent Patterson and Mercedes Mejia produced an hourlong documentary on environmental pollution and efforts…
One year after grantee investigation, Milwaukee DA’s office has improved how it notifies defendants of problematic police officers, but gaps remain
A year ago, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, TMJ4 News and Wisconsin Watch, with support from the Fund, published the Milwaukee County district attorney’s list of law…
In new documentary film, grantee spotlights battle over homeless encampment in Oakland, California
Journalist Caron Creighton’s feature-length documentary film, “Wood Street,” premiered at the Big Sky Documentary Film festival and will screen in Michigan and North…
Goldman Sachs’ Tardy Shareholder Settlement Heaps Further Shame But Little Pain On Rogue Bankers
It has taken 8 long years of legal pushback by Goldman Sachs for the bank to finally settle with shareholders for the damage done to them by its crooked dealings over…
A Ukrainian in a Russian Uniform
What prisoners of war from the occupied territories reveal about identity, coercion, and the story Russia tells about why it went to war - and why it matters for how…