The special one-year reporting fellowship will focus primarily on migrant children and families.
CIR Staff
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Netflix launches new doc on opioid crisis from CIR’s Glassbreaker Films
The film, made possible with support from the Helen Gurley Brown Foundation, shows a different side of the fight against drugs – one of hope.
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Rape on the Night Shift wins major investigative reporting award
Our bilingual collaborative investigation into the sexual abuse of janitors has been named the winner of an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award in the large broadcast/video category.
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Coming Dec. 9: Hired Guns, a CIR and CNN investigation
A yearlong investigation by The Center for Investigative Reporting and CNN has found that despite the image of safety they project, armed guards often pose a threat in an industry rife with lax laws, minimal oversight and almost no accountability.
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How CIR used a video game to teach kids about healthy eating
CIR teamed up with sophomores at San Leandro High School in California to teach elementary school students about healthy eating by playing “Hairnet Hero” and participating in nutrition-related workshops.
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3 projects co-produced by CIR nominated for Emmy Awards
The nominations recognize investigations into sexual abuse and harassment of migrant women broadcast on FRONTLINE; fraudulent drug and alcohol rehab programs on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360”; and overprescription of narcotic painkillers by the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs on PBS NewsHour.
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Robert Salladay to take over as CIR’s new editorial director
Previously CIR’s managing editor, Salladay has been the primary editor of some of CIR’s most decorated and innovative projects.
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On Reveal: Unraveling mysteries of the GI Bill, Coast Guard and EPA
Reveal’s third pilot episode investigates how for-profit colleges have profited off the GI Bill, the Coast Guard’s shaky safety record, backroom deals over arsenic in our water and the secrecy around lethal injection drugs.
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‘Rape in the Fields’ wins Robert F. Kennedy award
A collaboration among The Center for Investigative Reporting, the Investigative Reporting Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, FRONTLINE and Univision, the documentary exposed the widespread sexual harassment and assault of female agricultural workers in the United States.
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Follow live coverage of CIR’s Dissection event in Washington, D.C.
Welcome to our live blog of CIR’s Dissection D: Impact, which is focusing on the impact of public broadcast media. Join in the conversation in the comments and on Twitter.