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Lead IRE’s Web team
We’ve got a great opportunity on the IRE staff for someone who’s ready to take the lead on running our website. We’re looking for candidates with a passion for investigative and watchdog journalism, who are interested in developing online training sessions and playing a leading role in keeping our site innovative. Our site features coverage…
Read MoreVote now for the 2014 NICAR T-shirt
The National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting received more than 20 submissions for its annual T-shirt contest, and voting is now open! Voting will stay open for one week, ending Friday, Nov. 15 at midnight. The proposal with the most votes will be sold as a T-shirt at the upcoming CAR Conference, Feb. 27 to March 2,…
Read MoreLouisiana Purchased
Last year, 25 percent of nursing home beds in Louisiana were empty. Yet the state paid $23 million for them. In the third part of a series on the topic, Fox 8 News and NOLA.com investigated how and why the state has dished out millions of dollars for services that aren’t being used in.
Read MoreGoogle Hangout: Philip Meyer Journalism Award winners discuss best practices for data journalism
Join award winning data journalists Jennifer LaFleur, from the Center for Investigative Reporting, David Donald, of the Center for Public Integrity and Tom Hargrove of the Scripps-Howard News Service as they talk about their best practices for great data reporting. They’ll also be touching on the stories that won them Philip Meyer Journalism Awards (this…
Read MoreBody found in hospital stairwell: San Francisco sheriff details what went wrong
In September, Lynne Spalding checked into San Francisco General Hospital for a bladder infection. Soon after, she went missing. No one ordered a full search for Spalding until nine days after she disappeared. In that time, Lynne Spalding Ford’s family scoured the city and passed out thousands of fliers — only to find out she was dead in…
Read MoreAlmost Without Hope: The State of Health Care on the Rosebud Indian Reservation
The physical complications of poverty, joblessness and epidemic rates of alcoholism, diabetes and depression spill over into the wards at the only hospital on the Rosebud Reservation, which has a population of 13,000 and stretches across 1,970 square miles of South Dakota prairie. Life is short, violence high and health care lacking in Todd County,…
Read MorePrivate Prisons: Profit, Politics, Pain
“Patterns of rape, riots and squalor are found in lockups. Some incidents are tied to too few and often inexperienced guards. Some examples: An inmate left alone in horticulture class attacks another with a chunk of concrete. One inmate was so poorly fed, he ate crumbs off the floor.”
Read MoreWaste Lands: America’s forgotten nuclear legacy
The Department of Energy says it has protected the public health, and studies about radiation harm aren’t definitive. But with the government’s own records about many of the sites unclear, the Journal has compiled a database that draws on thousands of public records and other sources to trace this historic atomic development effort and its…
Read MoreProsecutorial misconduct alleged in half of capital cases
In half of all capital cases in Arizona since 2002, prosecutorial misconduct was alleged by appellate attorneys. Those allegations ranged in seriousness from being over emotional to encouraging perjury. Nearly half those allegations were validated by the Arizona Supreme Court.
Read MoreSpecial report: Addicted nurses keep licenses
Some nurses continue to steal narcotics or practice while impaired under state monitoring that’s supposed to stop them.
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