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The Henry Demarest Lloyd Investigative Fund
Posted January 5th, 2009 by Carrie Ching
Henry Demarest Lloyd (1847-1903) was a pioneer muckraker of late 19th century Chicago, whose books and articles focused on two areas now almost completely ignored by corporate-owned media: the working class, and the very powerful—the "one percent of America who controls 60 percent of its wealth."
The mission of the H. D. Lloyd Investigative Fund is: To support the work of investigative journalists who probe behind the walls of secrecy erected by the government and powerful corporations to inform the public of unreported news and events directly affecting their lives. The Lloyd Fund will commission the work of freelance journalists who share in this vision. The Lloyd Fund's primary focus is on innacurately or under-reported cases of malfeasance, or clandestine manipulation and exploitation of natural resources or political processes by U.S. corporations, institutions, or other power elites, at home and around the globe. The Lloyd Fund will support works with "moral force" with potential for major impact. Press Release
 |  Sergeant Adam Gray made it home from Iraq only to die in his barracks. Investigating his death, American RadioWorks pieces together a story of soldiers suffering psychological scars – because they abused Iraqi prisoners.  |
 |  Petra Bartosiewicz received the first H.D. Lloyd Investigative Fund grant for her report on the case of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist who vanished from her hometown of Karachi in 2003 with her three children. At the time Siddiqui went missing she was suspected by U.S. law enforcement of being an Al Qaeda operative, and the prevailing belief was that she was "disappeared" by the U.S. in connection with the global war on terrorism. Then in August 2008 Siddiqui reappeared in Afghanistan and her story grew stranger still.  |
 | Documentary filmmaker Christiane Badgley will receive the second Henry Demarest Lloyd Investigative Fund grant—$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. |