News From the Fund

Why Doesn't She Leave?
In the first of a three-part series, Katy Reckdahl examines domestic violence in New Orleans, where murder among intimate partners is five times the national average. Part two, Beaten and Blamed looks at the life of a woman struggling with both abuse and an arrest record. Part three, Called to the Scene examines the attitudes of police officers toward domestic violence victims. All three stories were published by Gambit Weekly.

Pope John Paul's Mexican Gamble
Jason Berry and Gerald Renner comment on their investigation of a scandal that reaches the highest levels of the Vatican. Their commentary was published by the Hartford Courant and distributed nationally by the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service.

Brewster County Poisonings
Ingrid Lobet's report on the mass poisoning of workers in a Washington state fruit-packing plant has won the 2002 Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Award for "Excellence in Electronic Media." In their citation, the judges said: "This project achieves the main goals of journalism: give voice to the voiceless; hold the powerful accountable." Lobet's report was prepared for "Latino USA" and broadcast over the National Public Radio network. [Audio link requires Real Player.]

U.S. Oil Politics in the `Kuwait of Africa'
Ken Silverstein looks into the corrupt world of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea in a cover story published by The Nation.

Tallulah Prison
Katy Reckdahl investigates conditions at notorious juvenile prison in Louisiana. The story was part of a Fund-supported series for which Reckdahl was honored as Journalist of the Year by the Louisiana Mental Health Association.

Education in Cuba
Ernesto Bazan explores the diversity and complexity of Cuba's educational system in photographs published by the Alicia Patterson Foundation Reporter.

The Mystery of the 364th
Persistent rumors that a regiment of black soldiers was massacred at a Mississippi training camp during World War II are investigated by Geoffrey F.X. O'Connell.

Comrades in Arms
Ken Silverstein explores the shadowy world of former Soviet mobsters who sell terrorists their guns in a report published by The Washington Monthly.

You're in the Hole
The U.S. prison system cracked down hard on political dissidents in the wake of Sept.11. Anne-Marie Cusac investigated for The Progressive magazine.

Training Police Thugs in Mexico
Kent Paterson writes about the questionable police practices being funded by U.S. dollars in Mexico in a story distributed by Pacific News Service.

Look Over Here
Patrick J. Sloyan, Fund board member and Alicia Patterson Fellow, examines media manipulation in time of war, in a report published by the APF Reporter.

Made in Indonesia: Indonesian Workers Since Suharto
Dan La Botz examines the rise of the modern labor movement in Indonesia and its effect on democratization in a book published by South End Press.

World's Journalists Should Collaborate in Age of Globalization
Charles Lewis, a member of the Fund for Investigative Journalism's board of directors, comments on the challenges faced by journalists in an age of increasing globalization.

Crossing the Line
Two young boys in New Orleans, charged as adults for a murder they may not have committed, demand their constitutional right to be tried by jury. Katy Reckdahl reports in the first of a Fund-supported series on juvenile justice in Louisiana published by Gambit Weekly.