Accountability
Harpooned by Facebook
As smart devices become a bigger part of our lives, we look at how Facebook and other companies profit from information about their users.
Staff
Biography
David Ritsher is the senior supervising editor for The Center for Investigative Reporting's digital video production team. He has produced and edited award-winning investigative documentaries for over 15 years, on subjects ranging from loose nukes in Russia to Latino gangs in Northern California. His work has appeared on FRONTLINE, PBS NewsHour, ABCNews, National Geographic, Discovery, KQED and other national broadcast outlets. Before joining CIR, David was the coordinating producer for FRONTLINE/World for over six broadcast seasons and championed much of its experimentation with video on the web.
Articles
Accountability
Al Letson Reveals: Pussy Riot
Reveal host Al Letson talks with Masha Alyokhina about standing up to authoritarianism and the campaign to release other political prisoners while Wor
Kept Out
How a gaping loophole in a landmark law is fueling gentrification
Financial institutions are fueling gentrification in low-income neighborhoods while getting credit for helping the poor.
Kept Out
Is this the new redlining? How people of color are being shut out of buying homes
Black and Latino applicants across the country are being rejected for mortgages at much higher rates than whites, and their race seems to play a role.
Chasing Energy
Tribal struggles beyond Standing Rock
Our video series examines the ways tribes in North America have dealt with mounting pressures from governments and corporations that take over their land for mega-projects such as dams, freeways and oil pipelines.
Chasing Energy
Betting on Oil, Paying with Land
Fort McKay First Nation, a reservation in northern Canada, is home to nearly 400 Cree, Dene and other indigenous people. In the 1950s and ‘60s, petroleum operations started to surround the community, extracting oil from the nearby tar sands.
Chasing Energy
Plowing Through Sacred Sites
In the middle of the night in fall 2013, California Department of Transportation workers dug into the earth to construct a new highway bypass in Willits. According to federal law, the local Pomo people had a right to send tribal monitors there, but they allegedly were barred from the nighttime construction.
Chasing Energy
One Year at Standing Rock
One year later, one of the first people to set up camp at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation reflects on the protests and how the movement has changed the course of her life.
Chasing Energy
The Land Beneath the Lake
A woman remembers what life was like before her family was relocated from its ancestral home and her tribe from its most fertile farmland.
Sustainability
How America’s tallest dam nearly overflowed
After the water in Lake Oroville reached the highest level since 1985, officials released more water from the dam through its main spillway. But a massive sinkhole split the spillway, prompting the evacuation of 180,000 in nearby communities. We built a 3D flyover of the time and charts to show what lead up to these events,