CIR Featured Projects
Posted June 26th, 2007 by Dave Nichols
Featured Investigation:
 | Just as education experts are encouraging more classroom time to improve student grades and test scores, many California districts are moving in the opposite direction by shortening their school year amid a sustained and draining budget crisis. |
Recent Investigations:
 | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will realign its duties to promote criminal investigations over immigrant deportation, officials have announced. CIR's Andrew Becker reports on ICE's makeover in the Washington Post. |
 | As soccer stars and fans converge in South Africa for the World Cup, Christopher Werth travels into the Cape Town slums to investigate reports that people are being displaced to make way for the games. Also, a multimedia report from Johannesburg. |
 | The Obama administration's recent decision to suspend new work on a multibillion-dollar high-tech border control system raises further questions about the government's use of computer networks and sensors in an effort to seal the border with Mexico. G.W. Schulz reports for AOL's Politics Daily. |
 | CIR and FRONTLINE/World track the emerging market in forest carbon offsets. In this FRONTLINE/World segment (broadcast May 11), CIR senior correspondent Mark Schapiro and producer Andres Cediel travel deep into the Atlantic Forest and the Amazon, where they discover what life is like on the other end of an offset deal. Carbon Watch won a People's Voice Webby Award! |
 | After the collapse of communism in 1989, millions of former Soviet bloc residents migrated abroad; since then, thousands of Eastern European women have been sold into prostitution in places like Turkey and Dubai. Photojournalist Mimi Chakarova investigates this rarely documented journey. |
 | 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. |
 | Correspondent Anna Badkhen checks in with FRONTLINE/World's iWitness from Grozny, where a still-simmering insurgency and brutal government crackdown continue to plague Chechnya. Badkhen's reporting trip was made possible by a grant from CIR's Dick Goldensohn Fund. |
 | 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. |