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Workers at plants billed as the nation’s safest are dying in preventable accidents: explosions, chemical releases, crane accidents and machinery-related crushing and asphyxiation, a new investigation by iWatch News finds. There are 2,400 work sites across the country dubbed “model workplaces” by the federal government for their commitment to safety. But since 2000, at least […]

Iwatch News contributor Rick Schmitt discusses his recent investigation on flaws in the nation’s background-check system for gun purchasers. Millions of law enforcement and mental health records aren’t included in the checks, leading to catastrophes like those in Tucson and Virginia Tech.

iWatch News reporter Kristen Lombardi was on MSNBC today discussing our new investigation on substandard school buildings on U.S. military bases and the pressures that puts on kids.

The Center for Public Integrity, one of the country’s oldest and largest nonprofit investigative news organizations, has named Gerard Ryle director of the Center’s International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Ryle is currently deputy editor of The Canberra Times. He has more than 25-years of experience as an investigative reporter and editor and his work […]

Center Staff Writer Kristen Lombardi has been named a 2011 Nieman fellow. She is one of 24 journalists from the U.S. and abroad who will take a sabbatical year of study at Harvard University. The fellowship is funded by the Neiman Foundation for Journalism. Kristen will study the legal and social conditions that promote wrongful […]

A Center for Public Integrity collaboration with NPR was recognized with a Peabody award for NPR today for the series, “Seeking Justice for Campus Rapes.” The Center was the key originating partner for this investigative project and provided many of the interview contacts, as well as the data, for NPR’s coverage of this important issue. […]

Jennifer 8. Lee and Matt Thompson have joined the board of directors of the Center for Public Integrity, one of the country’s oldest and largest nonprofit investigative journalism organizations. Jennifer 8. Lee is a journalist and author who spent nine years at The New York Times. There she covered technology, Washington, crime, poverty and culture. […]

Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist.org, has joined the board of directors of the Center for Public Integrity, one of the country’s oldest and largest nonprofit investigative news organizations. Newmark launched craigslist in 1995 as a simple platform where people could help each other out with basic needs, like finding a job or a home. The […]

Arianna Huffington and Frederic Seegal have joined the board of directors of the Center for Public Integrity, one of the country’s oldest and largest nonprofit investigative news organizations. Huffington is editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Huffington Post, and will soon become president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group at AOL. She is a […]

The Center for Public Integrity, Public Radio International and Global Integrity have received $1.5 million in grants to fund an ambitious risk analysis of corruption in all 50 state governments. Omidyar Network will supply up to $1 million for the 18-month effort and the Rita Allen Foundation has agreed to provide $500,000 in matching funds. […]

Entries for the 2011 Daniel Pearl Awards for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting are now being accepted. The awards honor the best in cross-border investigative journalism. Submissions must be postmarked no later than July 1, 2011. The awards are granted by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), a project of the Center for Public Integrity […]

The Center for Public Integrity, one of the country’s oldest and largest nonprofit investigative news organization, has entered into an agreement providing exclusive content to Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Newsweek’s February 7th issue, on sale today, includes a feature on the shortfalls in digital mammography. The piece reports the dubious expectations among experts that […]

Twenty-seven men were allegedly involved in the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal Bureau Chief Daniel Pearl, but only four have been charged and convicted. Fourteen others who were allegedly part of the conspiracy remain free. Those are some of the important conclusions of The Pearl Project, a three-year investigation into the story behind […]