Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
18 December 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
In the 1980s, a virtual messaging network, then known as bulletin board systems (BBSs), acted as a support group for many who were in search of peer support and reliable information as the AIDS epidemic spread. Althou...
Bangor Daily News
Erin Rhoda
9 December 2020
Colorado, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A Colorado law enacted in 2016 requires law enforcement officers to disclose their past disciplinary records when seeking a new job at a different agency. By making such disclosures automatic, the law standardizes hir...
27 October 2020
Orléans, France
Text
1500-3000 Words
Years after international authorities had stopped searching for a man suspected of being an architect of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, a freelance journalist spent eight months searching data and doing on the ground repo...
17 September 2020
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Philadelphia criminal trials were broadcast live on a public YouTube channel to provide for public access to the courts during the pandemic shutdown, but the practice was halted over a complaint by prosecutors that th...
17 July 2020
New York, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
When New York legislators abolished a state law that had long shielded police officers’ disciplinary records from public scrutiny, they were not just responding to recent protests but also to activism over many years ...
17 June 2020
Hawaii, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The groundswell for greater accountability in police shootings has barely caused a ripple in Hawaii, where the state’s Law Enforcement Officer Independent Review board has finished only one case in its first three yea...
4 June 2020
New Jersey, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Citizen watchdogs can hold local police accountable by using the tactics of investigative reporters that have successfully exposed systemic problems and sparked reforms. One reporter shares five approaches he’s used t...
17 December 2019
Mexico
Text
1500-3000 Words
A nearly two-year investigation of Mexicans who had gone missing, and presumably murdered, produced a series of stories based on the database of at least 2,000 graves across Mexico. A group of independent reporters an...
6 November 2019
Colombia
Text
800-1500 Words
La Liga Contra El Silencio is an alliance of 16 news organizations and hundreds of journalists in Colombia. It protects journalists against threats, which have the effect of censoring reporting on certain topics. La L...
20 March 2019
California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
More than 30 California news organizations collaborated to gain access to, and publish news stories about, previously secret police disciplinary cases. Filing more than 1,100 records requests with more than 600 law en...
19 March 2019
California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A new California law requiring that police departments make public their records of police officers' misconduct revealed numerous cases that had not been known before. Police unions and state and local governments sou...
Talk Africa
Mercy Odada
4 September 2018
Kenya
Text
800-1500 Words
Journalists in Kenya are pushing back against harassment and attacks. They are forming press clubs and associations, hosting peaceful demonstrations, and boycotting covering events until authorities apologize for mist...
Apolitical
Anoush Darabi
11 June 2018
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Text
800-1500 Words
Reduce corruption by making public data accessible and transparent. In Buenos Aires, Argentina, information about public works projects is available online, so excess spending is hard to hide. Meanwhile in Brazil, an ...
Deutsche Welle (DW)
Manasi Gopalakrishnan
23 October 2017
Germany
Text
Under 800 Words
Germany has identified a problem with refugees hearing lies about migrating to Germany, often from traffickers who just want to make money. 'Rumours about Germany' is a website for migrants to get the truth about Germ...
20 October 2017
Malaysia
Text
800-1500 Words
In Malaysia, only 30 days are required between the calling of an election and election day. Campaign periods sometimes last as little as just 10 days. Sinar Project, a nonpartisan Malaysian civic tech organization, is...
Harper's Magazine
Kim Wall
19 June 2017
Havana, Cuba
Text
Over 3000 Words
In Cuba, most access to internet is extremely limited. "The Weekly Package," solves this problem--carried by individuals who travel around on foot each week, it is a single, black market hard drive from which custome...
WEWS-TV
Rob Powers
22 December 2016
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Broadcast TV News
Over 15 Minutes
Faced with abysmal customer service during a spate of incorrect, excessive usage bills from Cleveland's municipal water department, residents turned their attention to the nation's top-ranked utility, Miami-Dade Water...
25 August 2016
North Springfield, Vermont, United States
Photojournalism
Under 800 Words
As skepticism increases around the health of consuming meat products due to inhumane ways the animals are being reared and raised, this Vermont packinghouse is embracing transparency by letting the public see all. Fro...
23 August 2016
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Multi-Media
Over 3000 Words
Technology developed in the military to find who was planting roadside bombs to take out American soldiers has been adapted for civilian use by a former member of the Air Force, whose company seeks to work with police...
22 March 2016
Mityana, Uganda
Text
1500-3000 Words
In Uganda, a country with high levels of corruption and political patronage, citizen-led grassroots efforts to root out graft and enforce accountability have sprung up across the country. “Village budget clubs,” train...
9 December 2015
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
As it enters into a consent decree with the Department of Justice, Cleveland looks to Detroit to learn what may lie ahead because that city recently emerged from a consent decree after 12 years following revelations o...
8 July 2013
Paris, France
Text
800-1500 Words
In response to media censorship and the persecution of journalists in Syria, a Paris-based radio station has trained journalists in Syria and are broadcasting news into Syria by satellite over the FM airwaves.
30 May 2012
New York, New York, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
When we consider the vast sums that governments spend — and the responsibility public officials bear — it seems crazy that policy makers don’t routinely make good use of evidence. The new White House effort to base sp...
10 August 2003
Mexico
Text
Over 3000 Words
Corruption in Mexico is ingrained in all systems and interactions. President Vicente Fox and his administration are trying to change this. Their mentality is that for corruption to truly be fought the government needs...
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