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Secret Files Expose Offshore’s Global Impact by Gerard Ryle, Marina Walker Guevara, Michael Hudson, Nicky Hager, Duncan Campbell and Stefan Candea for ICIJ A cache of 2.5 million files has cracked open the secrets of more than 120,000 offshore companies and trusts, exposing hidden dealings of [...]
Freddie Mac Didn’t Set Out to Profit from Homeowners Trapped in High-Rate Mortgages by Cora Currier for ProPublica Mortgage giant Freddie Mac did not keep homeowners trapped in high-interest loans in order to boost profits on billions of dollars’ worth [...]
Trans-Asian Railway Unlocks Laos Borders “Unlocking Laos” examines the mega Tran-Asia railway project through the perspectives of academics and rural villagers in Laos. By Ore Huiying August for Common Language Project VIENTIANE, Laos – Imagine a day when [...]
Texas firm targets Calif. homeowners with foreclosed 2nd mortgages by Rick Jurgens for California Watch Adding new uncertainty in the state’s ongoing mortgage crisis, a Texas company is aggressively pursuing hundreds of Californians to collect second-mortgage debt – on homes [...]
After a Tower Climber Falls, Stand Down Called for on AT&T Projects by Ryan Knutson, PBS Frontline, and Liz Day for ProPublica & Frontline This story was co-published with PBS Frontline. Following a worker’s non-fatal 100-foot fall from a Texas cell tower [...]
Criminal Probe Spotlights Tree Poisoning to Make Way for Billboards by Myron Levin, Lilly Fowler and Stuart Silverstein for FairWarning Robert J. Barnhart was a crew chief for a billboard company, and a soldier in a war on trees. Trees were the enemy [...]
Behind the story: Why I care about a bony fish with oddly shaped fins Looting the Seas III project manager, Mort Rosenblum, talks about his experience reporting the story for ICIJ and BBC World News with a multi-country [...]
Inside Story – Can the nuclear industry survive? by Al Jazeera English on Youtube Can the nuclear industry survive and what are the risks versus economic advantages? Guests: Jan Beranek, Paddy Regan, Imad Khadduri.
Where Has All the Money Gone in Haiti? Ask A New Group of Investigative Reporters by Kathie Klarreich for International Center for Journalists When I first started training Haitian journalists in investigative reporting skills in the summer of 2010, I [...]
Four Whistleblowers Who Sounded the Alarm on Banks’ Mortgage Shenanigans by Cora Currier for ProPublica Buried in the sweeping mortgage settlementwith banks, for which final documents were filed this week, are five whistleblower casesthat shed light on the litany of foreclosure abuses by [...]