CIR Featured Projects
Posted June 26th, 2007 by Dave Nichols
Featured Investigation:
 | Managers have routinely allowed their employees to amass unused vacation time, enabling hundreds of workers to end their public-service careers with payouts topping $100,000. |
Recent Investigations:
 | A joint investigation from the Center for Investigative Reporting and the Center for Public Integrity examines how federal, state, and local governments have managed—or mismanaged—anti-terror programs. |
 | Several years ago three U.S. companies sank millions of dollars into a forest reserve in southern Brazil to earn credits to cover some of their carbon emissions back in America. How does the scheme work on the ground? Mark Schapiro and Michael Montgomery report in a two-part series for Marketplace. Part one aired on Thursday, February 25; part two aired on Friday, February 26. |
 | Ernesto Gamboa, a native of El Salvador, spent more than a decade as an undercover informant for narcotics police, helping U.S. federal prosecutors secure nearly 100 convictions. Last summer, days after Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced a major bust it made with
Gamboa's help, agents moved to deport him. CIR's Andrew Becker reports for NPR.
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 | A web-video series from CIR highlighting investigative reporting—as it happens—by journalists around the world. In this episode, reporter Andrew Becker describes the predicament that some foreigners face while working for the U.S. government as informants. |
 | In the digital age, half our electricity still comes from coal. Dirty Business: "Clean Coal" and the Battle for Our Energy Future is a documentary that reveals the true social and environmental costs of coal power and tells the stories of innovators who are pointing the way to an alternative energy future. |
 | A multimedia investigation of the untold stories of unsolved civil rights-era murders in the South, presented by CIR, Paperny Films, and WNET. Our reporters are reopening and investigating several cold cases—and producing important evidence that prosecutors have used to build criminal cases against killers and conspirators who have walked free for more than 40 years. |
 | CIR has partnered with an array of Bay Area journalists, media organizations, and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism to form an investigative team to continue the work of journalist Chauncey Bailey Jr., and answer questions regarding his death. Bailey, editor of the weekly Oakland Post, was murdered on August 2 while reporting on a story regarding the suspicious activities of the Your Black Muslim Bakery. |
 | After the collapse of communism in 1989, millions of former Soviet bloc residents migrated abroad, breathing life into one of the oldest criminal enterprises—the trafficking of humans into sexual slavery. Since then, thousands of Eastern European women have been sold into prostitution. Photojournalist Mimi Chakarova investigates this rarely documented journey. |
 | Just after the U.S. took Baghdad in 2003, the Green Berets began training young Iraqis with no military experience in the desert of Jordan. The resulting brigade was a deadly, elite, covert unit, fully fitted with American equipment, that would operate for years under U.S. command and be unaccountable to the normal political process. Shane Bauer reports for The Nation. Support was provided in part by CIR's Goldensohn Fund. |