Carrie Ching
Senior Multimedia Producer
Homebase: Oakland, CA
Carrie manages and produces multimedia reports for CIR projects—including California Watch, The Chauncey Bailey Project, The Civil Rights Cold Case Project, and The Price of Sex. Her multimedia reports have been featured by NPR.org, the Los Angeles Times, BBC, The Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Columbia Journalism Review, Link TV, and Public Radio International. She also manages website production—from concept and design to development, content creation and launch—for CIR’s family of websites, and acts as content editor for each of them. Prior to joining CIR she was an editor at California magazine and AlterNet.org; founding editor of WireTap magazine (AlterNet’s online youth news magazine, which won a Webby award in 2004); a reporter for the Honolulu Advertiser and stringer for the Contra Costa Times; and a freelance video journalist for Washingtonpost.com and Current TV. She completed a master’s degree in journalism from UC Berkeley in 2005.


 Homepage: http://carrieching.com

CIR Investigations:
South Africa's Shadows: A Journey into the "Bad Buildings" of Johannesburg
CIR WEB EXCLUSIVE VIDEO   |   JUNE 10, 2010
In the shadows of the World Cup stadium in Johannesburg, correspondent Christopher Werth visits innercity neighborhoods where the challenges ...
Out of Bounds? Cape Town's Cleanup for the World Cup
CIR WEB EXCLUSIVE VIDEO   |   JUNE 8, 2010
As soccer stars and fans converge in South Africa for the World Cup, Christopher Werth travels into the Cape Town slums to investigate repor ...
Price of Peril: Homeland Security Spending By State
BY G.W. SCHULZ   |   CIR WEB EXCLUSIVE   |   MAY 3, 2010
The nation has committed billions of dollars to improving homeland security since 2001, including large sums awarded to states in preparedne ...
Going Undercover with a Confidential Informant
BY ANDREW BECKER, CARRIE CHING   |   CIR WEB EXCLUSIVE   |   FEBRUARY 12, 2010
Retired narcotics agent Tom Padukiewicz worked undercover with confidential informant Ernesto Gamboa for thirteen years—busting drug deale ...
California's top greenhouse gas polluters
BY CARRIE CHING   |   CALIFORNIA WATCH   |   JANUARY 16, 2010
The top 100 carbon dioxide-producing facilities in California generated 101,890,944 metric tons of CO2 in 2007, according to data recently r ...
Greetings from St. Paul
CIR WEB EXCLUSIVE VIDEO   |   SEPTEMBER 1, 2009
Police pointed to this video among other things as evidence that political activists were planning to cause major disturbances at the Septem ...
Behind the Veil
CIR WEB EXCLUSIVE VIDEO   |   JUNE 23, 2009
Lawlessness and sectarian violence quickly engulfed Iraq after the fall of Saddam, leaving women vulnerable. Anna Badkhen and Mimi Chakarova ...
The Price of Sex: Women Speak
CIR SPECIAL REPORT   |   MAY 26, 2009
After the collapse of communism in 1989, millions of former Soviet bloc residents migrated abroad, breathing life into one of the oldest cri ...
Searching for Kosovo's Missing
BY BRIAN POLLACK, CARRIE CHING, MICHAEL MONTGOMERY   |   CIR WEB EXCLUSIVE   |   APRIL 10, 2009
Ten years after the Kosovo War, Michael Montgomery returns for the BBC to investigate "the other side of the war"—Serbs allegedly kidnappe ...
Colombian Journalists Track Guerrilla War on Contravía
CIR WEB EXCLUSIVE VIDEO   |   MARCH 26, 2009
Colombian journalists Hollman Morris and Juan Pablo Morris are risking their lives to unearth the largely hidden history of the country’s ...
Evidence Ignored in Chauncey Bailey Murder Case: A Timeline
BY CARRIE CHING   |   CIR WEB EXCLUSIVE   |   OCTOBER 26, 2008
The Chauncey Bailey Project reports that Sgt. Derwin Longmire, the lead detective assigned to investigate Chauncey Bailey's slaying, is a su ...
Election 2008: The Secret Money Project
NPR.ORG   |   SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
Who's paying to influence voters in your state? Independent groups are pouring millions of dollars into election ad campaigns nationwide. A ...
Web of Influence
BY CARRIE CHING, WILL EVANS   |   CIR WEB EXCLUSIVE   |   FEBRUARY 1, 2008
A CIR web exclusive chart showing which presidential candidates have fundraisers who also work as lobbyists for foreign governments.

Other Reporting:
His Name is Charlie
BY CARRIE CHING  |  CURRENT TV   |   MARCH 18, 2006
When the Vietnam War ended and U.S. troops pulled out of Southeast Asia 30 years ago, they left behind more than 100,000 mixed-race childre...
From Buddha to Jesus
BY CARRIE CHING  |  CURRENT TV   |   NOVEMBER 2006
A look at why some Cambodians are converting to Christianity.
Following Ancient Footsteps
BY CARRIE CHING  |  WASHINGTONPOST.COM   |   MAY 2005
The teenage daughters of Cambodian refugees in Stockton, California retrace the steps of the apsara, women who danced in the royal Khmer co...
The Vet Who Didn't Come Home
BY CARRIE CHING  |  FRONTLINE/WORLD   |   AUGUST 10, 2004
A dispatch on Vietnam War vets living in Southeast Asia and how these expats view the war in Iraq and the U.S. election.
A Slow Paddle Home
BY CARRIE CHING  |  CALIFORNIA MAGAZINE  |  JANUARY 2007
When others come to your paradise to find solitude, where do you find yours? A local girl takes a kayak trip into the heart of old Hawaii.