Press Releases

The story of struggle and hope at the epicenter of America’s opioid epidemic in West Virginia was nominated in the documentary category.

Five investigations by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting from 2017 have received recognition in recent weeks.

On March 7, award-winning documentary filmmaker Dawn Porter was unanimously elected to join The Center for Investigative Reporting’s board of directors. CIR and Porter first partnered in 2016 when she was selected as one of five accomplished female filmmakers to produce documentaries for our Glassbreaker Films series. Porter’s work has appeared on HBO, PBS, the […]

Fellowship will award fellows $10,000, training and mentorship EMERYVILLE, Calif. (March 12, 2018) – Today, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, a national nonprofit newsroom in the San Francisco Bay Area, announced applications are open for its third cohort of Reveal Investigative Fellows. The Reveal Investigative Fellowship helps strengthen a field in which diversity […]

Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting is adding four new members to its staff. Fernando Arruda is our new associate sound designer and engineer. A native of Brazil, Arruda has spent the last decade working in music and sound in New York City, most recently through the Manhattan Composers Collective, an audio postproduction company […]

Addressing a room of over 30 coders, community organizers and journalists, Sonya Piles spoke about her experience in and out of Oklahoma’s prison system. “I wanted to change, but I didn’t know how,” said Piles, speaking at a Dec. 9  event in Tulsa. Unable to get a job or treatment for her addiction and trauma, […]

Radio show earns highest industry accolades Reveal and Coda Story have won a prestigious Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for their collaborative radio episode “Russia’s New Scapegoats,” which addresses the rise of anti-gay sentiment in Russia and the former Soviet Union. Reveal is produced by The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, and Coda Story […]

Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting has launched the second year of its fellowship for investigative reporters of color. Over the next 10 months, the five Reveal Investigative Fellows will delve into topics ranging from a lack of diversity in high school honors classes to challenging post-hurricane conditions for immigrants.   The 2017-18 fellows, […]

Calise Hawkins, Julia Johns and Scott Chaplain weren’t planning to dive into a typical stand-up routine when they took the stage at WFMU in Jersey City, New Jersey, on Oct. 21. Surrounded by a 1970s-themed set, the comedians were set to riff on a topic that doesn’t seem like much of a laughing matter: the […]