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The Investigative Fund

The Nation Institute's Investigative Fund provides support for the research costs associated with investigative journalism. The Fund emphasizes reporting on subjects often ignored by the mainstream media, and seeks to improve the scope and overall quality of investigative reporting in the independent press.


Behind the Housing Crisis

Kai Wright examines the disproportionate impact of the wave of foreclosures on African Americans—what he calls "the strip mining of black wealth"—in his Nation cover story, The Subprime Swindle. WATCH Kai Wright discuss this economic theft. Wall Street insider Nomi Prins focuses on what went wrong in Congress and what it can do to alleviate the crisis in her Mother Jones article Why the Economy Went South and accompanying timeline Where Credit is Due. More
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The Reign of Thuggery

Joshua Hammer
(The New York Review of Books)

Hammer leads us through the world of Zimbabwean politics: from the dictator who won't relinquish power, to the challenger who he had beaten up last year and the South African president who continues to support the failing government. MORE

2008-06-26


Another KBR Rape Case

Karen Houppert
(The Nation)

Houppert was interviewed on Democracy Now! along with Dawn Leamon and Jamie Leigh Jones. Leamon also testified in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. -Eds.

In the wake of Jamie Leigh Jones' highly publicized charges, a woman comes forward with new allegations of a brutal sexual assault and cover-up at a KBR camp in Iraq. MORE

2008-04-03


Denial in the Corps

Kathy Dobie
(The Nation)

The American News Project recently released a video featuring Cynthia Fleming, the mother of Lance Cpl. James Jenkins, based on Dobie's article. - Eds.

More and more Iraq War veterans are committing suicide. Abandoned by the Marine Corps, pushed into repeat tours and denied treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, they are turning their guns on themselves. MORE

2008-02-18

Great Lakes: Danger Zones?

Sheila Kaplan
(The Center for Public Integrity)

On February 28, the Committee on Energy and Commerce announced that it would launch a full investigation into the suppression of this report. - Eds.

For the past seven months, the nation’s top public health agency has been suppressing an alarming report about elevated infant mortality and cancer rates in the eight Great Lakes states. MORE

2008-02-08


How Specialist Town Lost His Benefits

Joshua Kors
(The Nation)

The PBS show NOW recently devoted its entire half-hour show to Iraq veterans who've returned home, following up on a story first exposed by Joshua Kors. -Eds.

Wounded soldiers returning from Iraq are increasingly being wrongly diagnosed by the military, which prevents them from collecting benefits. MORE

2007-03-29


FEMA covered up cancer risks to Katrina Victims

Sheila Kaplan
(Salon)

Shortly after this article appeared, a subcommittee of the House Committee on Science and Technology announced that it would hold a hearing on this matter. - Eds.

Tens of thousands of displaced Katrina victims still live in toxic trailers. And FEMA tried to suppress a doctor's report about the links between the formaldehyde present in their trailers and cancer. MORE

2008-01-29
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The Nation Institute's Investigative Fund provides support for the research costs associated with investigative journalism. The Fund emphasizes reporting on subjects often ignored by the mainstream media, and seeks to improve the scope and overall quality of investigative reporting in the independent press. Above all, we want to support reporting with the potential to have a social impact. The Fund encourages its grant recipients to publish their findings in a variety of print, broadcast and electronic outlets.

Director Joe Conason and investigative editor Esther Kaplan initiate and oversee Investigative Fund projects. Joe is an award-winning investigative reporter and a national correspondent for The New York Observer and a columnist for Salon.com. Esther is a longtime reporter and editor and author of the investigative book With God on Their Side: George W. Bush and the Christian Right.

The first step in applying is to email us a story query and a budget request. It's useful to include information about what's new and enterprising about the research, your reporting approach, the story's potential impact, and what publication or broadcast outlet is interested in the piece.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

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