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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.


Joshua Kors Wins National Magazine Award

Joshua Kors' two-part series on veterans being denied their medical benefits won the prestigious National Magazine Award for The Nation magazine. The articles were underwritten by the Investigative Fund. Kors has also won the 2007 George Polk Award for Magazine Journalism. Read the first article How Specialist Town Lost His Benefits and the second article Specialist Town Takes His Case to Washington. More
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Another KBR Rape Case

Karen Houppert
(The Nation)

Houppert was interviewed on Democracy Now! along with Dawn Leamon and Jamie Leigh Jones. Leamon will also be testifying 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


Rigged Trials at Gitmo

Ross Tuttle
(The Nation)

Four days after this article was published, Haynes resigned from the Pentagon. - Eds.

There are to be no acquittals in the Guantánamo prisoners’ trials, says Pentagon general counsel William Haynes. Tuttle gets the inside scoop on bias in the tribunal process from the former chief prosecutor for Guantánamo's military commissions. MORE

2008-02-20


Alaska: Big Oil and the Whales

Peter Matthiessen
(The New York Review of Books)

The iconic naturalist exposes disturbing new plans to extract fossil fuels from the pristine Arctic sea floor, and considers the devastating impact that this would have on the wildlife and native people of this spectacular coastline. MORE

2007-11-22

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


The Hawks' Last Hurrah?

Laura Rozen
(Mother Jones)

Rozen attends a four-day international security conference in the Israeli town of Herzliya, where Washington hawks warn policymakers that they could be on their own on Iran. MORE

2008-02-08


FEMA covered up cancer risks to Katrina Victims

Sheila Kaplan
(Salon.com)

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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