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Series explores decline of investigative reporting in America

Laura Frank, reporting for Exposé, explores the state of investigative reporting in a series entitled "The Withering Watchdog." In an era of shrinking newsrooms, "investigative reporting is often the first […]
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Tobacco and terrorism

In its latest series of articles, The Center for Public Integrity's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists looks at illegal cigarette trade in China, Paraguay and Ukraine. The articles show how […]
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Georgia ill-prepared for public health emergencies

A recent evaluation found the state of Georgia is poorly prepared to face public health emergencies. "Federal agencies, nonprofit groups and the state’s own documents depict a public health system […]
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Health care czar profited from companies under investigation

Nancy Ann DeParle, who heads the White House Office on Health Reform, made more than $6.6 million since 2001 serving as a director of corporations that faced scores of federal […]
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LA fire inspections can't keep pace

A Los Angeles Times analysis of fire inspection reports "show that personnel from the department's Bureau of Fire Prevention and Public Safety have been falling behind in their efforts to […]
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'Historic' budget cuts roughly equal to 2008 payroll growth

The San Diego Union-Tribune found that "San Diego's payroll ballooned by $41 million last year, fueled by unpublicized payouts, labor settlements and costly benefits."  Analysis of spending data  "helps put […]
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Law school admitted unqualified applicants for a price

In its on-going watchdog series "Clout Goes To College," the Chicago Tribune reveals a "jobs-for-entry scheme" at the University of Illinois' law school. Internal emails "show for the first time […]
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Foreclosure backlog continues to threaten economic recovery

Renae Merle of The Washington Post reports that a backlog of delinquent mortgages threatens the nation's economic recovery. "It masks the full extent of the foreclosure crisis and threatens to […]
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Former Scientologists allege culture of violence, intimidation

An investigation into the Church of Scientology by Joe Childs and Thomas C. Tobin of The St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times alleges "a culture of intimidation and violence" under the church's […]
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Propriety of campaign fund donations questioned

Companies that received multimillion-dollar deals with CalPERS, California’s giant public pension fund, pumped more than $300,000 into a union campaign fund overseen by Sean Harrigan while the long-time California labor […]
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