Joshua Eaton and Ben Piven, Timeline of Edward Snowden’s revelations. Al Jazeera. First stories published on 5 June 2013. Al Jazeera’s timeline of Edward Snowden’s NSA surveillance revelations. The information is from the media outlets that first reported the stories.
Continue reading...May 27, 2013
A Word From Our Sponsor: Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch
Jane Mayer, A Word From Our Sponsor. The New Yorker, 27 May 2013. “Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch…. For decades, federal funding for public broadcasting has been dwindling, and the government’s contribution now makes up only twelve percent of PBS’s funds. Affiliates such as WNET are almost entirely dependent on gifts, some of which are sizable….”
Continue reading...May 19, 2013
Officer Serrano’s Hidden Camera: The stop-and-frisk trials of Pedro Serrano
Jennifer Gonnerman, Officer Serrano’s Hidden Camera: the stop-and-frisk trials of Pedro Serrano:NYPD rat, NYPD hero. New York Magazine, 19 May 2013. “Officer Pedro Serrano walked through the heavy wooden doors of the 40th Precinct in the South Bronx and headed upstairs to the locker room. For eight years he’d been working out of this 89-year-old station house, with its broken fax machines and crummy computers. “We work in a shithole,” the cops there would say, “but it’s our shithole.” Serrano, 43, had the day off—he’d stopped by only to pick up some papers—but when he got close to his locker, he noticed something strange. Someone had placed a dozen rat stickers on the door.”
Continue reading...May 1, 2013
The Way of All Flesh: Undercover in an industrial slaughterhouse.
Ted Conover, The Way of All Flesh. Harper’s, May 2013. Reprinted by longform.org by permission of the author.”Undercover in an industrial slaughterhouse.”
Continue reading...April 13, 2013
Justice Denied: Inside the Bronx’s Dysfunctional Court System
William Glaberson, Justice Denied: Inside the Bronx’s Dysfunctional Court System. Four-part series in The New York Times. 13-30 April 2013. “The Bronx courts are failing. With criminal cases languishing for years, a plague of delays in the Bronx criminal courts is undermining one of the central ideals of the justice system, the promise of a speedy trial.”
Continue reading...April 7, 2013
Nevada Patient Busing: Las Vegas mental hospital used commercial buses to “dump” more than 1,500 psychiatric patients in 48 states over five years
Cynthia Hubert and Phillip Reese, Nevada Patient Busing. The Sacramento Bee, Series of 5 stories published on 7 April, 14 April, 5 May, 23 June, and 15 December 2013. “The Bee began this investigation after learning of a mentally ill man who, according to sources in the social services community, had been bused from a Nevada state psychiatric hospital to Sacramento, with a minimal supply of food and medication and without any arrangements for his treatment or housing. After locating him in a boarding home in Sacramento, The Bee pieced together James Flavy Coy Brown’s story by interviewing him at length, tracking down relatives across the country, and talking to doctors, social workers and caregivers he encountered after his arrival in Sacramento. Brown gave us permission to access his confidential medical information….”
Finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting.
Winner of the 2013 George Polk Award for Medical Reporting.
Winner of the 2013 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism.
Continue reading...April 1, 2013
The Master: Sexual Abuse at Horace Mann High School
Marc Fisher, The Master. The New Yorker. 1 April 2013. “A charismatic teacher [Robert Berman at Horace Mann in the Bronx] enthralled his students. Was he abusing them?”
Continue reading...March 16, 2013
Food stamps put Rhode Island town on monthly boom-and-bust cycle
Eli Saslow, Food stamps put Rhode Island town on monthly boom-and-bust cycle. Part 1 of a 6-part series in The Washington Post, beginning on 16 March 2013. Eli Saslow won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting “for his unsettling and nuanced reporting on the prevalence of food stamps in post-recession [United States], forcing readers to grapple with issues of poverty and dependency.”
Continue reading...February 20, 2013
Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us
Steven Brill, Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us. Time, 20 February 2013. “When we debate health care policy we seem to jump right to the issue of who should pay the bills, blowing past what should be the first question: Why exactly are the bills so high?”
Continue reading...February 20, 2013
The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food
Michael Moss, The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food. The New York Times, 20 February 2013. “The public and the food companies have known for decades now — or at the very least since…[1999] — that sugary, salty, fatty foods are not good for us in the quantities that we consume them. So why are the diabetes and obesity and hypertension numbers still spiraling out of control?”
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