International
When Drugs Stop Working series
A five day series by Martha Mendoza and Margie Mason of The Associated Press explores the global issue of drug resistance, looking at where and how it has emerged and what can be done. The series examines the overuse and misuse of drugs, leading to drug-resistant strains of diseases, highlighted by the first case in…
Read MoreHuman Trafficking in America series
A series by The Kansas City Star explores the problem of human trafficking, and how the U.S. is failing in its promise to end trafficking and other human rights abuses. Their investigation “found that, in spite of all the rhetoric from the Bush and Obama administrations, the United States is failing to find and help…
Read MorePuerto Rican refinery had history of problems, neglect
Mc Nelly Torres, a freelance journalist, and Omaya Sosa Pascual, of El Centro Periodistico Investigativo de Puerto Rico, report decades of environmental violations, financial distress and neglect behind the company that owns the refinery where the Oct. 23 deadly explosion took place in Puerto Rico. The stories, a collaboration between journalists in Miami and Puerto…
Read MoreInternational adoptions fraught with problems
David Shaffer of the Star Tribune (Minneapolis, Minn.) presented a detailed look at how foreign adoptions often lead to nothing but heartbreak for everyone involved, from the birth mother to the adoptive parent. The two-day series also exposed a glaring loophole in a newly implemented treaty aimed at cutting down on corruption in the international…
Read MoreTobacco 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 China has emerged as the epicenter for the global cigarette counterfeiting business, while Paraguay and Ukraine have fostered billion-dollar black markets. The series also looks…
Read MoreMexican drug war creates new class of refugees
As part of the Los Angeles Times’ continued coverage of the drug war in Mexico, Andrew Becker and Patrick J. McDonnell report on a new class of refugees seeking asylum in the United States. Law enforcement officers, business owners and journalists are increasingly trying to escape the violence and danger linked to Mexico’s drug war.…
Read MoreCrisis deepens in Zimbabwe
“How much lower can Zimbabwe sink? Chronic food shortages, hyperinflation, a cholera epidemic, people abducted for speaking out against President Robert Mugabe’s regime — all this is the stuff of daily life for ordinary Zimbabweans, as related here by a journalist in Harare, the capital,” begins the latest dispatch from “One Step From Hell.” It’s…
Read MoreForeign workers hired as banks failed
“Major U.S. banks sought government permission to bring thousands of foreign workers into the country for high-paying jobs even as the system was melting down last year and Americans were getting laid off, according to an Associated Press review of visa applications.” Frank Bass and Rita Beamish of the Associated Press reported that visa applications…
Read MoreOur Hungry Planet series
In a seven-part multimedia series, the Star Tribune examines the phenomenon of the global food market through the eyes of farmers and consumers from Cambodia to Papua New Guinea to southern Minnesota. Reporters Matt McKinney, Chris Serres and Richard Meryhew explore the powerful and conflicting forces around the world influencing the supply and price of…
Read MoreMexico under siege
An extensive series by The Los Angeles Times details the war on drugs underway in Mexico. Since January 2007, it is estimated that 6,285 people have died in the efforts to curb the drug trade — a number greater than the total U.S. fatalities in the Iraq War. The series explores the war as it…
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