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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 5:02 AM

The Poisons Around Us

The Center for Public Integrity has recently released two great investigations that show how consumers and workers are being exposed to toxic hazards. "Perils of the New Pesticidies" by M.B. Pell and Jim Morris reveals that the number of reported human
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Friday, July 18, 2008 6:54 AM

Treatment or Abuse?

In Boston Magazine's "The Shocking Truth," Paul Kix does a masterful job of investigating the use of electro-shock therapy at the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC), a Massachusetts home for mentally handicapped and behaviorally impaired youth. The
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Friday, July 11, 2008 4:29 AM

The Nurse Shortage

Roy Wenzl of The Wichita Eagle has written a nice two-part report on how the nationwide shortage of nurses is affecting a local health-care provider, the Via Christi Wichita Health Network. The first part, "Health Care's Looming Crisis: A Need for Nurses,"
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Thursday, June 26, 2008 6:07 AM

Just Wait....

Associated Press Texas sports editor Jaime Aron has written an excellent narrative about his premature twin sons' fight for life, "Born Too Soon." There's much to recommend this story – it has just enough details, it moves at a nice pace, Aron shares
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 6:52 AM

Government Screw-Ups

I've seen a couple of great examples recently of television networks serving as watchdogs when the government acts with complete insensitivity toward some of its most vulnerable citizens. Brian Ross and Vic Walter of ABC News, in conjunction with Audrey
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 6:49 AM

Underground Workers

Jennifer Gonnerman's "Blood on the Tracks" in New York magazine does a great job of describing the dangerous world of the workers who maintain the city’s 660 miles of subway tracks. Gonnerman introduces us to the workers and shows us how they
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Monday, May 19, 2008 6:07 AM

Hidden Cameras

The use of hidden cameras for investigative reporting fell after ABC got smacked with a $2.47 billion lawsuit because it ran an undercover story in 1992 about the Food Lion grocery chain (an appeals court later reduced the award for damages to $2).
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Friday, May 16, 2008 8:18 AM

Dying of Neglect

Award-winning Washington Post reporters Amy Goldstein and Dana Priest just concluded a stunning series, "Careless Detention: Medical Care in Immigrant Prisons." Some 33,000 immigrants are crammed into these facilities, often for minor offenses, and many
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:31 AM

Medical Bills

When Tom McGrath's daughter Sarah had her appendix removed, the doctors and nurses did everything right. But when McGrath got the bill for her hospital stay, none of it made sense to him. "My Daughter's $29,000 Appendectomy" in Philadelphia Magazine
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 10:02 PM

Throwing Their Dreams Away

To protect pitchers' arms, major-league managers usually restrict the number of pitches they can throw in a single game. But, as Tom Wyrwich of the Seattle Times shows in "Former High School Pitcher Hopes Rules Are Changed to Protect Young Arms," high
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Sunday, May 04, 2008 6:34 PM

Flames on Planes

Reporter Phil Williams of WTVF Channel 5 in Nashville used the Freedom of Information Act to do an investigative story of national significance. Williams obtain Federal Aviation Administration videos and reports indicating that two kinds of wiring commonly
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Friday, April 25, 2008 8:00 AM

Behind Bars

Talk about a tough job -- how about working as the IT guy in San Quentin? In "California Prison Reform: Inmates, I.T. and Health Care," Kim S. Nash of CIO Magazine explores the challenges faced by information technology workers as they try to improve
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 8:00 AM

Ouch!

For some excellent investigative work on consumer and worker safety, check out The Sacramento Bee's "Nail Gun Safety under Fire as Injuries Soar" by Andrew McIntosh. His stories describe how nail gun accidents are sending 42,000 people
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 9:05 AM

Mad Enough to Kill

There has been a spate of murders linked to mental illness, from shooting rampages on several campuses to a psychiatrist hacked to death in her New York office. "Dangerous and Mentally Ill," by Carol Smith in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, examines the
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Monday, April 14, 2008 8:30 AM

War Without End

"Combat That Never Ends" by Alysa Landry of the Farmington, NM, Daily Times is an outstanding series on post-traumatic stress disorder. Landry describes the causes, symptoms and treatments, and explains why as many as 40 percent of veterans from
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