Workshop News
Aaron awarded fellowship
Dec. 19, 2011
Our Kat Aaron, project editor of What Went Wrong, has been named as an Alicia Patterson Fellow for 2012. The prestigious Patterson fellowship will allow Aaron to continue her reporting into the functioning of the nation's civil courts system. She wrote two stories on the civil courts earlier this year, exploring the history of controversy around the Legal Services Corporation and the impact of budget cuts on civil justice. The program, named for Alicia Patterson, the longtime editor and publisher of Newsday, was was established in 1965 to support working journalists pursuing in-depth reporting. It is America’s oldest writing fellowship. Aaron is one of six journalists awarded the Patterson fellowship for 2012.
What the new poverty measures show
Nov. 10, 2011
The Workshop's ongoing What Went Wrong project — which shows how public policy decisions have helped shape the current economic downturn — includes a series of stories on the poor and the new way the government is defining poverty. Hear editor Kat Aaron talk about these new poverty measures today on WAMU-88.5 FM at noon.
Immigration detention documentary to air in October
Sept. 30, 2011
The Obama administration last year set new records for detaining and deporting immigrants who were inside the country illegally. The government plans to best those numbers in 2011, removing more than 400,000 people. FRONTLINE, in partnership with American University’s Investigative Reporting Workshop, and correspondent Maria Hinojosa, takes a penetrating look at Obama’s vastly expanded immigration net, explores the controversial Secure Communities enforcement program and goes inside the hidden world of immigration detention in Lost in Detention, airing Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011, at 9 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings).
New researchers team up with Workshop editors
Sept. 19, 2011
The Workshop welcomes a new team of students, who will be working on the What Went Wrong project as well BankTracker and our FRONTLINE documentary.
Workshop joins New America to find new sources
July 21, 2011
For communities of color around the country, a continuing housing collapse may be ahead. In Maryland, the country's wealthiest majority-black county is devastated by foreclosures, and the state mediation program is having little impact. In California, minority homeowners from urban Oakland to the rural Central Valley are struggling to bounce back from foreclosure, as New America Media reports in our joint project. And as Donald Barlett and James Steele report later this week, even veterans are not exempt.
April newsletter: Why we started a new blog
April 20, 2011
The Workshop's latest e-newsletter is now available. In April's issue, Senior Editor Wendell Cochran discusses the Workshops's newest blog, "Expemption 10," which focuses on implementation of FOIA. Researcher Mia Steele describes how she works with databases for the Connected project.
Improving access to government records
April 11, 2011
Executive Editor Charles Lewis will address the Media Access to Government Information Conference Tuesday, April 12, in Washington, where he will deliver a talk on "Observations about Improving Access to Government Records."
Workshop launches FOIA Blog: Exemption 10
March 24, 2011
The Investigative Reporting Workshop has started Exemption 10, a blog on Freedom of Information and open government issues, and we'd like your help.
Subscribe to our newsletter
March 24, 2011
The Workshop launched an e-newsletter this month to keep you up-to-date on our staff and our projects. To subscribe, go here: http://investigativereportingworkshop.org/subscribe/
