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| The Chad-Cameroon pipeline runs more than 660 miles to the coast. Exxonmobil.com |
Berkeley, CA — The Center for Investigative Reporting is pleased to announce that documentary filmmaker Christiane Badgley will receive the second Henry Demarest Lloyd Investigative Fund grant.
Badgley will receive $5,000 in seed money to develop a film project investigating the effects of the oil pipeline constructed by Exxon/Mobil and other oil companies, with assistance from the World Bank, through the West African nations of Chad and Cameroon. She plans to follow the route of the pipeline and document its effect on the environment, on workers, local communities, and on local and national governments.
While in pre-production for the film, Badgley will produce a running video-blog of her travels, which commence this fall. The video-blog will be produced in collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, which also is supporting this project. In conjunction with the film, Badgley will launch a series of interactive multimedia dialogues with African citizens along the pipeline’s route.
Badgley’s films have been broadcast on PBS and Link TV in the United States, and on French and other European television stations. She produced an early episode of Exposé, the television series on investigative reporting, which CIR developed in cooperation with the New York PBS station WNET.
The mission of the Lloyd Investigative Fund, named in honor of Henry Demarest Lloyd (1847-1903), the pioneer muckraker of late 19th century Chicago, is to support the work of investigative journalists who probe behind the walls of secrecy erected by government and powerful corporations, to inform the public of unreported news and events at home and around the globe.
Founded in 1977, the Center for Investigative Reporting is the nation's oldest nonprofit investigative reporting organization. The Lloyd Investigative Fund is one way that CIR is working to ensure that high-quality, credible journalism does not die, but flourishes.