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Need to Know: Crossing the Line at the Border Parts 1 & 2
Few, if any, pieces published or broadcast in 2012 had as much impact as “Crossing the Line at the Border,” a joint project of the weekly PBS newsmagazine, “Need to Know,” and the Nation Institute that was in the best tradition of American investigative journalism. Within days of its broadcast, 16 members of Congress demanded that the U.S. Justice Department investigate the killing of Anastasio Hernandez Rojas, a 42-year-old Mexican whose death at the hands of U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents was detailed in our report. A few months later, a U.S. attorney in convened a federal grand jury. It is currently considering criminal charges in the case. And months after that, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said the incident had prompted it to launch a full-scale review of its use of force. Hernandez Rojas had a fatal heart attack shortly after being subdued by agents, beaten, and shot with a Taser gun at the San Ysidro border crossing on May 28th, 2010. His death was largely ignored until the "Need to Know” team, in partnership with the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute, unearthed never-before-seen eyewitness video of the incident.
Tags: U.S. Justice Department; border; killing; U.S. Customs and Border Protection; U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Taser
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The Story Behind the Story
The American Journalism Review tells the story of alt-weekly Willamette Week breaking the sex scandal involving Oregon political legend Neil Goldschmidt, while the large daily, the Oregonian, stumbled with the story.
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Miscount: An Investigative Series
This series was an outgrowth of the problems that plagued Florida during the 2000 presidential election. "Scripps Howard News Service spent a year examining voting records from the 1996, 2000, 2002 and 2004 general elections, looking for and finding significant discrepancies between the number of ballots cast and the number of votes counted for major offices." This investigation helped to uncover failures in election procedures, bad ballot designs, misleading voting instructions, as well as a number of mechanical failures in ballot-counting devices.
Tags: punch - card voting; American Journalism Review; hanging chads; voting; secretary of state; presidential elections; Florida; ballots
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Pull Up!: United 747's Near Miss Sparks a Widespread Review of Pilot Skills
The Wall Street Journal reports on many pilots' lack of basic training, resulting in poor flying skills. The story describes a incident with an United Airlines jumbo jet with 307 passengers and crew, which barely missed apartments and houses in San Francisco before safely returning to the airport. The incident was publicly disclosed much later, but there are other "close calls" that remain undisclosed.
Tags: National Transportation Safety Board; American Airlines; FAA; Boeing; safety; business
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Reclaiming the land
A Dallas Business Journal investigation reviews the cleanup program for "nearly 400 contaminated sites identified as brownfields in the Dallas-Fort Worth Area." The reporter analyzed a database that contained the location and histories of "sites where dry cleaners, auto dealers, garages and others for decades mixed commerce with contaminants." The analysis reveals that small business owners can rarely afford to finance its own cleanup.
Tags: Halliburton; EPA; contamination; American Airlines Center; environment; Metroplex; toxic waste; lead smelter; CAR; database mapping project
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No Gun Ri
The Associated Press discovered American troops had killed hundreds of refugees during the Korean War. This story drew national acclaim and influenced American foreign policy after Defense Secretary William Cohen ordered an internal army investigation and National Security Advisor Sam Berger "called the AP report disturbing". The AP used the Freedom of Information Act and "reviewed hundreds of boxes of official war journals, communications logs, action reports, radio messages, and other declassified military documents" to do the investigation.
Tags: South Korea; No Gun Ri; military; massacre; refugee; Air Force; Army; military intelligence
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Killing them softly
The Clinton administration says giving clean needles to drug users will slow the spread of AIDS and save lives. But former addicts -- and the specialists who treat them -- tell Policy Review that the sanctioned supplies will only strengthen the soul-destroying culture of addiction.
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American Journalism Review looks at the San Jose Mercury News's series "Dark Alliance", which links the CIA to the Nicaraguan Contras and Colombia's cocaine cartels. American Journalism Review reports on the controversy surrounding the San Jose Mercury News series and questions over whether or not journalist Gary Webb had enough written documentation to support his allegations against the CIA. (Nov. 1996)
Tags: Heyboer A furor over the CIA and drugs Washington Post LA Times Ethics Conspiracy theories 2 pgs.
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Nuclear plants are licensed to generate electricity for 40 years, but rapid deterioration, economic inefficiency, safety problems and the high cost of replacing key components are forcing them to shut down early. American Journalism Review looks at how prematurely closed plants present several major problems beyond the obvious impact on the country's electric supply, of which nuclear power today generates 22 percent.(April, 1995)
Tags: Negin In the dark Nuclear Regulatory Commission 4 pgs.
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Radiation Risks Revisited
Technology Review reports that "In the late 1970s, British epidemiologist Alice Stewart and her colleagues released a study claiming that workers exposed to low-level ionizing radiation at the U.S. government's Hanford nuclear weapons complex in Washington state had a heightened cancer risk. This troubling conclusion - with potentially far-reaching implications for radiation exposure standards, medical practices, and nuclear industry operations - ignited a major controversy....An analysis by Stewart and statistician George W. Kneale, her longtime collaborator, soon to appear in the 'American Journal of Industrial Medicine,' claims to further establish a connection between exposure of nuclear workers to supposedly safe doses of low-level ionizing radiation and the risk of contracting cancer..."