Haiti’s New Team of Investigative Journalists
Where Has All the Money Gone in Haiti? Ask A New Group of Investigative Reporters by Kathie Klarreich for International Center for Journalists When I first started training Haitian journalists in...
View ArticleThe Water Man: Harvesting Rainwater in India
Grassroots movement tackles India water crisis by CIR Subscribe to podcast · Download audio · Embed player · Audio player assistance TRANSCRIPT: The average human drinks a couple of quarts of...
View ArticleBad Meat: Fracking Chemicals a Possible Reason for Dying Livestock
Livestock Falling Ill in Fracking Regions, Raising Concerns About Food by Elizabeth Royte for The Food & Environment Reporting Network In the midst of the domestic energy boom, livestock on farms...
View ArticleFEMA: Where is Your Flood Zone?
Using Outdated Data, FEMA Is Wrongly Placing Homeowners in Flood Zones by Theodoric Meyer for ProPublica When Donna Edgar found out that new flood maps from the Federal Emergency Management Agency...
View ArticleHow Salmonella is Getting Into Beef
Cracks in the System: Salmonella proves to be a problem in beef too By SAM ROBINSON for MIDWEST CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING Salmonella tainted ground beef could be the biggest challenge facing...
View ArticleSugar Stays Unregulated in School Lunch Programs
School meals face rules on fat, meat, veggies – but no limits on sugar by Eleanor Yang Su for CIR Almost everything about a school cafeteria meal has a regulation. The federal government caps the...
View ArticleGulf Fishery Hurting from BP Spill
Gulf ecosystem in crisis after BP spill Three years after well blowout, declining seafood catches and deformities point to an environment in distress. by Dahr Jamail for Al Jazeera New Orleans, US –...
View Article“Harvest of Shame” A Documentary on Migrant Workers in America
by CBS This CBS Reports episode, shows impoverished conditions and the exploitation of millions of migratory farm workers in the United States, some of whom worked for as little as a dollar a day....
View ArticlePacific Bluefin Tuna One Year After Populations Drop 96% From Unfished Levels
Why bluefin tuna have no ‘fair’ price The bluefin tuna auctioned off this weekend in Japan was comparatively ‘cheap’, but the price can’t be used as a yardstick for its conservation status by Emma...
View ArticleVideo Project Uses Poetry to Expose Crimes
Whispers from the Field If America’s fields could speak, what stories would they tell about sexual abuse migrant women face? That’s the question that poet Monica Mendoza asks in the Off/Page Project’s...
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