Thousands of sugarcane workers die while authorities stall In most of the world, chronic kidney disease — CKD — is a manageable illness that primarily affects the elderly. But in Central America the condition is instead devastating whole communities, according to a new investigation by the Center for Public Integrity’s International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. […]
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Center garners top journalism awards
The Center for Public Integrity’s iWatchnews.org website today received the Excellence in Online Journalism Award from the National Press Foundation. NPF said the site “effectively uses the capabilities of digital journalism in support of its investigative mission.” It’s the third major award for the Center in almost as many weeks. Late last month, the nonpartisan […]
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The weekly watchdog: Dec. 5 – Dec. 9
GOP, Chamber Push to Weaken Consumer Protection Bureau Senate Republicans this week blocked the nomination of Richard Cordray to lead the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Five months after its formation, the new federal agency tasked with safeguarding the financial interests of ordinary people is still without a director. Republicans, led by Sen. Richard Shelby, […]
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Staff changes at the Center
Dear readers and supporters, The Center for Public Integrity today undertook personnel and salary changes that put our organization on a solid financial footing for 2012. Sadly, that required laying off four professionals who are valued colleagues and friends. These are the positions we have had to cut: Two of our Managing Editors; an Office […]
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iWatch News edition launches in new Google Currents app
Introducing Google Currents By iWatch News December 8, 2011 Starting today, iWatch News readers can get our content on their Android devices, iPads or iPhones through the new Google Currents app. You can read the latest Center investigations in addition to browsing your favorite iWatch section. Click here to subscribe to our edition, once you’ve […]
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Center stands firmly behind its award-winning investigative work
Looting the Seas I Stories in this series Overview: The black market in bluefin By Marina Walker Guevara, Kate Willson and Marcos Garcia Rey November 7, 2010 Part I: A Mediterranean feeding frenzy By Kate Willson and Jean-Pierre Canet November 7, 2010 Part II: Diving into the tuna ranching industry By Marcos Garcia Rey November […]
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Center wins two EPPY awards
The Center for Public Integrity today was honored with two 2011 EPPY awards from Editor & Publisher. The winning categories: Best Enterprise Feature on a Website and Best Investigative Website with Under 250,000 Monthly Visitors. The feature singled out for accolades is Dangers in the Dust: Inside the Global Asbestos Trade, produced by the Center’s […]
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The weekly watchdog: Nov. 21 – Nov. 23
Fingers Point to Iran on Libyan Chemical Weapons The Obama administration is investigating whether Iran supplied the Libyan government of Moammar Gadhafi with hundreds of special artillery shells for chemical weapons that Libya kept secret for decades, according to an iWatch News/Washington Post story this week. The shells, which Libya filled with highly toxic mustard […]
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The weekly watchdog: Nov. 14 – Nov. 18
Air pollution map tells a toxic story across the country When an interactive graphic delivers the goods, you know immediately. If you haven’t had a chance to delve into the map accompanying our Poisoned Places investigation, please check it out. Developed by our partner NPR, the graphic shows 17,000 facilities that have emitted and continue […]
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Sustaining watchdog journalism in the digital age, hosted by the Center for Public Integrity and Paley Center for Media
The Center for Public Integrity and the Paley Center for Media presented a program on innovative approaches to funding and producing investigative journalism. The event consisted of three panels: Anatomy of an Investigative Report, New Models for Investigative Journalism and Next Big Thing: New Tools for Digital Digging. You can watch the panels in full […]
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The weekly watchdog: Oct. 24 – Oct. 28
Offshore tax holiday for U.S. corporations? Goaded by battalions of corporate lobbyists, members of Congress are working to give a select group of U.S. multinational firms like Apple, Oracle and Pfizer a lavish tax break on a trillion dollars stashed offshore. The avowed goal is to generate jobs and investment, but the offshore tax holiday […]
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The weekly watchdog: Oct. 17 – Oct. 21
Charities Shill for AT&T Oddly, small charities around the country have stepped up to support AT&T’s proposed merger with T-Mobile. A closer look by the Center shows why: AT&T gives them money — and lots of it. AT&T distributed $148 million in 2010 through its corporate, foundation, and employee-giving programs, according to the company’s website. […]
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Daniel Pearl Awards winners announced
Daniel Pearl The winners of the 2011 Daniel Pearl Awards were announced Saturday at the seventh Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Kiev, Ukraine. The top exposés deal with offshore crime networks and international sex trafficking. The awards honor the slain Wall St. Journal reporter and celebrate the best in cross-border investigative reporting. This year’s biennial […]
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The weekly watchdog: Sept. 19 – Sept. 23
Countrywide Whistleblower Sings Countrywide Financial was the top originator of sub-prime mortgages during in the years leading up to the 2008 economic meltdown. Now we hear first-hand testimony from Eileen Foster, a Countrywide whistleblower who saw fraud on an outlandish scale. In an exclusive interview with iWatch News, the former internal investigator tells how mortgage […]
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Ellen Weiss named executive editor
Ellen Weiss has been named executive editor at the Center for Public Integrity, one of four recent hires of top journalists at one of the country’s oldest and largest nonprofit investigative news organizations. Weiss will oversee the Center’s domestic investigations and editorial staff. She comes to the Center with deep journalism and management experience as […]
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The weekly watchdog: Sept. 12 – Sept. 16
Is LightSquared the New Solyndra? There are some troubling similarities between bankrupt Solyndra’s troubles and LightSquared, a wireless company with deep connections into the Obama administration. The emails first obtained by iWatch News and ABC News this week don’t look so great either. On the day that LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja made a $30,400 contribution […]
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Center’s Ronnie Greene Discusses Solyndra with CNN
The story of the bankrupt solar company Solyndra just gets more and more interesting. White House budget staffers expressed doubts about giving the company $535 million in loan guarantees, according to emails first obtained by iWatch News and ABC News. The loans were ultimately made anyway. Ronnie Greene is interviewed below in this CNN report.
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Center hires R. Jeffrey Smith as national security editor
Veteran Washington Post investigative reporter R. Jeffrey Smith has been named managing editor of the National Security Reporting Desk at the Center for Public Integrity, one of the country’s oldest and largest nonprofit investigative news organizations. Smith worked for 25 years in a series of key reporting and editorial roles at The Washington Post. In […]
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ICIJ unveils Daniel Pearl Awards finalists
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2011 Daniel Pearl Awards for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting. This award is unique among journalism prizes in that it was created specifically to honor cross-border investigative reporting. It is presented by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a project of the […]
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Greene talks about Solyndra on Fox News
FOX News: Inside Federal investigation of Solyndra Watch the latest video at <a href=”http://video.foxnews.com”>video.foxnews.com</a> Ronnie Greene, senior reporter for iWatch News, was interviewed on Fox News about the demise of Solyndra, the solar-energy firm that went bust last week. The FBI is now investigating how the firm spent almost half a billion dollars in taxpayer-backed […]
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Christine Montgomery joins Center as Chief Digital Officer
Christine Montgomery has been named chief digital officer at the Center for Public Integrity, one of the country’s oldest and largest nonprofit investigative news organizations. Montgomery comes from PBS.org, where she is currently the managing editor in charge of developing niche sites to reach and engage new audiences. “I’m delighted that Christine is joining the […]
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The weekly watchdog: Aug. 29 – Sept. 2
Obama-backed Solar Firm Collapses This arrangement has been troubling for some time. Solyndra Inc., a renewable energy firm that became a darling of the Obama Administration, shut the doors of its California headquarters Wednesday, raising fresh questions from critics about political favoritism and wasted money in the federal loan program. The manufacturer of rooftop solar […]
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Weinberger discusses no-bid contracts on DemocracyNow
Reporter Sharon Weinberger discusses a decade of no-bid military contracting on DemocracyNow with Amy Goodman. Watch the segment here. Read the series here.
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Center nominated for two online journalism awards
The Center for Public Integrity has been nominated for two 2011 Online Journalism Awards: -The Truth Left Behind: Inside the Kidnapping and Murder of Daniel Pearl: Pearl Project, sponsored by Georgetown University and the Center for Public Integrity’s International Consortium of Investigative Journalists -Breakdown: Traveling Dangerously in America – News 21 and The Center for […]
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Reporter Michael Hudson Talks Mortgage Fraud on KCBX
Host Guy Rathbon interviews Hudson on the FBI’s annual mortgage fraud report that fails to mention big banks.”There is still a lot culpability in large national institutions in committing fraud, condoning fraud and allowing fraud to happen,” said Hudson. They also discuss the concept that “too big to fail” has become “too big to jail” […]
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International Consortium Adds 15 Investigative Journalists
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has added 15 new reporters to its roster of more than 100 journalists in 50 countries. ICIJ is the international arm of the Center for Public Integrity, one of the country’s oldest and largest investigative news organizations. The new members are based in 13 countries across three continents and […]
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Buzenberg Op-Ed in The Guardian
Center Executive Director Bill Buzenberg opines on The Guardian’s website about the special interests bankrolling the new 12-member Super Congress. With so much money jockeying for position, it’s doubtful the public interest will be well served. “The legalised system of quasi-bribery known as the American campaign finance system allows millions of dollars to flow from […]
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iWatch News Cited in WP Editorial
An iWatch News story by Peter H. Stone about Mitt Romney’s appearance at a fundraiser held by Restore Our Future was cited in a Washington Post editorial today. The PAC later accepted a controversial $1 million donation from a company called W. Spann LLC that promptly went out of business after making the contribution. It […]
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Lombardi talks military schools on American RadioWorks
iWatch News Reporter Kristen Lombardi discusses our recent investigation which found 75 percent of K-12 school buildings on U.S. military bases are substandard. Listen to the interview here. American RadioWorks is produced by American Public Media.
