Center For Investigative Reporting - Investigations

Investigations

• The Boomerang Crime, by David Weir, Mark Shapiro and Terry Jacobs. Published in Mother Jones.
• ABC’s 20/20 showcases CIR story of how the UN’s “International Year of the Child” was instead a front for illegal gun and drug trafficking.
• Operation Wigwam exposed the cover up of potential ill effects from an underwater nuclear test in the Pacific Ocean.
• Citizen Scaife, by Karen Rothmyer, appears in the Columbia Journalism Review and The Washington Post.
• The Illusion of Safety, by Douglas Foster and Mark Dowie. Appears in Mother Jones.
• The Bad Drug, a report featured on 60 Minutes about the dangers of blood pressure drug Selacryn.
• The Nuclear Navy, an explosive report on the thirty-year history of naval nuclear accidents, makes headlines worldwide.
• The Heartbeat of America, an investigation of General Motors produced for Frontline.
• Who’s Watching the Watchdog, a look at the Better Business Bureau, by Richard H.P. Sia.
• Hot Guns, a Frontline and CIR story on cheap handguns.
• Justice for Sale, explores corruption in America’s court system.
• Tobacco Traffic, by Mark Schapiro and producer Oriana Zill de Granados, explores illegal smuggling. Print story “Big Tobacco” appears in The Nation.
• Reasonable Doubt, a CNN documentary on shoddy forensic science at the FBI.
• No Place to Hide, by Robert O’Harrow Jr., an investigation of government data mining as part of the war on terror.
• Conflicts on the Bench, reveals ethics violations by Bush court nominees. Will Evans partnered with Salon.com.
• Banished, an independent film on race relations in small towns, produced by CIR, premieres at 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
• The Chauncey Bailey Project, a joint investigation made possible by the Northern California Chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the National Association of Black Journalists, the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation, the Newspaper Guild and The California Endowment. Investigators sought answers in the assassination of editor Chauncey Bailey.
• Carbon Watch, a project tracking various aspects of global warming science and policy.
• The Civil Rights Cold Case Project, a team effort involving CIR, the Concordia Sentinel, The Clarion-Ledger, The Anniston Star, the Detroit Free Press, hungryblues.net, and Paperny Films of Vancouver, BC.
• Dirty Business, a documentary film narrated by “Big Coal” author Jeff Goodell.